All Heimler Review Videos Created by Jack MacGregor

Flashcards of vocabulary words from the lecture notes.

Pueblo

Farmers, a settled population, Maize, advanced irrigation systems, urban centers

Nomadic people

In the plains, small bands of people, hunters and gatherers

Cahokia

Mississippi river valley, Farmers, Centralized government

Columbian exchange

Exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people to and from the U.S. to Europe

Encomienda System

Natives enslaved to farm and mine in America

Casta System

Categorized people based on their racial ancestory

mercantilism

Control of hard currency and trade balance

Navigation Acts

Required merchants to engage in trade with english colonies and english-owned ships, trade items required to pass exclusively through British ports

Slave Codes

Slaves defined as property, made it a perpetual institution

The Enlightenment

Emphasized rational thinking over tradition

The Great Awakening

Massive religious revival, intense Christian enthusiasm

Impressment

Seizing colonial men and forcing them to serve in the royal navy

Albany plan of union by Benjamin Frankin

Centralized government for the colonies

Salutary Neglect

British turned a blind eye to colonial affairs and avoidances because of the far distance

virtual representation

Parliament represented all classes of British society and thus included the colonists

Declaratory Act

British could pass any laws they wanted to in the colonies

Coercive Acts

Closed the Boston harbor

The Great Compromise

Legislative split into a bicameral congress

Republican Motherhood

Women could influence political realities by raising sons instructed in the principles of liberty

Whiskey Rebellion

Attack on tax collectors trying to collect the tax on Whiskey

XYZ affair

Delegation sent to France needed to pay a bribe

Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

Democratic-Republicans argued that any law passed that is blatantly unconstitutional can be nullified by the states

Indian Trade And Intercourse Act

Regulated fair dealings with Indians

Strict Construction

federal government could only do what was written in the constitution

Loose Construction

Government had a lot more flexibility, could do a lot more

Judicial Review

Proclaimed the Supreme Court to be the final interpreter of the constitution

Mcculloch vs. Maryland

Federal law was above state law

Tallmadge Amendment

Slavery was prohibited in the new state of Missouri

Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise)

Maine brought in as a free state when Missouri was brought in as a slave state, set the line for slavery at the 36 30 line

Monroe Doctrine

Established the Western Hemisphere as a U.S. sphere of influence, free from European influence

Market Revolution

Linking of North and South industries and farms

Interchangable parts

Machines used to produce parts and put things together

Steamboats

trading vessels could go up and down river

Cult of Domesticity

Women’s sense of purpose revolved around childbirth and maintaining the home

spoils system

Jackson appointed faithful supporters to government positions

Nullification

States had the power to determine the constitutionality of federal laws, could nullify it

Worcester vs. Georgia

Cherokee Nation was sovereign, Georgia had no right to impose state laws there

Transcendentalism

Transcendant power and beauty of nature, Human perfection

Utopian Communities

Spiritual renewal

2nd Great Awakening

Meetings in the woods, Evangelical preachers preached all day long

Mormonism

All churches had strayed from the true teachings of the original church

Abolitionists

Said white people needed to take a stand against slavery by means of moral persuasion

Seneca Falls Conventionm 1848

first womens rights conference

Manifest Destiny

To possess the whole continent from sea to shining sea

Wilmot Proviso

any lands gained from the war with Mexico was off limits to slavery

Popular Sovereignty

The people living in the territory should decide on slavery for themselves

Nativist movement

A policy of protecting the interests of native-born people against the interests of immigrants

Free Soil Movement / Free Soil Party

In support of the Wilmot Proviso

John Brown

wanted a slave uprising

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

allowed Kansas and Nebraska to have popular sovereignty even though it was above the 36 30 line

Dred Scott Decision

declared Dred Scott was not a citizen and had no right to sue

corrupt political machines

Groups of people who could secure votes for their parties

Imperialism

The expansion of empire

Yellow Journalism

Published sensational stories which exaggerated the atrocities of the Cubans, to sell more newspapers

The Open Door Policy

Asked them to keep an open door of trading privileges in China

Progressive Era

society was deteriorating and the only cure was significant government intervention

Muckrakers

Investigative Journalists exposed many social justice issues

Expansion of democracy

Initiative, Referendum and Recall

Frederick Taylor, Scientific Management, Taylorism

Make factories more efficient

Wilson’s 14 points

League of Nations, negotiate instead of war

Food Administrations

Food production was sufficient for the troops and Americans

Espionage and Sedition Act

A crime to oppose the war or say anything disloyal about the war effort

The 1st Red Scare

growing anti-communist sentiment and Xenophobia

The Great Migration

Southern black population migrated to urban industrial centers to the North

More Nativism

An influx of immigrants, Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia

Harlem Renaissance

revival of the arts and intellectual pursuits of the black population

Stock market was already inflation

Buying on margin, borrowed money to buy stocks

Limited Welfare State

Government would take responsibility for the social and economic welfare of its citizens

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Tried to make war illegal

War Production Board and Office of War Mobilization

Car factories began producing planes and tanks

Double V campaign

victory in the war and victory against racism

Executive order 9066

Federal government relocated Japanese-Americans to internment camps

Marshall plan

They could choose capitalism over communism

Post war Diplomacy

U.S. offered a lot of money to European nations trying to rebuild

Containment

Resources put into containing Communism

Taft-Hartley Act

Made it more difficult for workers to strike

Levittown

Provided a low cost solution to the housing demand

The Beatniks

poets who rebelled the conformity

Brown vs. the Board of Education

Said segregated education was inherently unequal

Eisenhower warned against the military-industrial complex

Eisenhower warned against was that military intervention policy decisions would be made based on the material interests of those who produced the weaponry

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Gave the president a blank check to exercise whatever powers were necessary to protect American interests in the region

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society

an extension of the New Deal