Unit 1 & 2 US History Study guide

VOCAB: Policy

A statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure, law, or protocol

VOCAB: Colonists

A settler in or inhabitant of a colony ruled by another government

VOCAB: representation

The action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone

VOCAB: unalienable

Inalienable or unalienable refers to that something that cannot be given away or taken away (natural rights)

What was the first permanent English settlement in America?

The first was in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia along the Chesapeake Bay

What was the name of the 1773 protest due to the Tea Act?

The name was the Boston Tea Party

In 1732, what was the number of established colonies in America?

There were 13 established colonies in America

What was the name of the first American Document?

The name of the first American Document was the Declaration of Independence

What was the first document created to govern the new United States?

The first document created was the Articles of Confederation

Believers in a constitution with a strong, national government were called?

They were called federalists

Those who believed in stronger state governments were called?

They were called anti-federalists

Anti-federalists wanted a document to protect individual rights and freedoms in the new constitution. What was it?

It was the bill of rights

VOCAB: Three-fifths compromise

An argument at the constitutional convention that counted three out of every five enslaved people when determining a state’s population for representation and taxation

VOCAB: Slave Trade Clause

Apart of the Constitution that prevented Congress from banning the international slave trade until 1808

VOCAB: Abolition

The movement to end slavery and the slave trade

VOCAB: Natural Rights

Rights that people supposedly have under natural law. The declaration of independence of the United States list life, liberty, an the pursuit of happiness as natural rights

UNIT 2

UNIT 2

VOCAB: Civil War

The war between the States, fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States and the confederate states of America

VOCAB: Secession

The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state

VOCAB: Reconstruction

The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated confederate states were readmitted to the Union

Explain the major cause of the Civil War?

The major cause was slavery

What were the Northern Advantages during the Civil War?

The advantages were factories, food production, better navy, railroads, and Abraham Linoln

What ultimately allowed the North to win?

Northern members and centralized war effort

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln, when and where?

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865

VOCAB: Black code(s)

restrictive state laws passed in the former confederate states during 1865 and 1866 to limit the freedom of African Americans and force them into labor after the civil war

VOCAB: 13th Amendment

abolished slavery and involuntary solitude

VOCAB: 14th Amendment

guarantees equal protection under the law for all peopleV

VOCAB: 15th Amendment

prohibits the denial of voting rights because of race or skin color

VOCAB: Presidential reconstruction

Andrew Johnsons plan for rebuilding the South after the civil war

VOCAB:Radical recontruction

unfinished

How did reconstruction effect the people of the United States?

African Americans and poor white farmers became sharecroppers, Blacks win federal and state political office

What was the compromise 1877? What were the major consequences of that action?

Samuel Tilden defeates Rutherford in the election, leading to charges of fraud by 3 disputed states

Explain the Plessy v. Ferguson trial and its consequences?

Separate but equal

What was Thomas Jefferson’s role in Westward Expansion?

He bought the Louisiana purchase

What was the motivation to settle West?

The motivation was gold and free land

Explain the idea of manifest Destiny?

That it was the God given right for Americans to expand Westward to the pacific ocean and Mexico

Explain the difficulties and hazards of settling in the West?

Trees were scarce, there were droughts, floods, fires, blizzards, locust plagues, and raids

Explain the misunderstandings concerning land ownership between Natives and Western settlers?

Natives thought they were sharing the land, while white settlers though that they owned the land

What happened to the population of American buffalo?

The american buffalo were slaughtered for food and fur