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Characteristics of the original thirteen colonies
the southern colonies consisted of large landholders, mostly Anglican, on plantations using slave labor 2. There were internal conflicts over economic interest, ethnic rivalries, and religious practices 3. The middle colonies were the most diverse with estates interspersed with homesteads (They DID NOT believe they were a single people with a common destiny, who ought to break from Britain)
Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to ...
Reduce the price of goods from Asia, gain more profit for themselves, and Reduce the time it took to transport goods
Columbian Exchange
the transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New worlds
European contact with Native Americans led to...
the deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases
English at Jamestown in 1607
this settlement founded in the early 1600's that was the most consequential for the future United States
The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in
The destruction of the soil, A great demand for controlled labor, Soaring prosperity in the colony (it DID NOT diversify the colony's economy)
Henry VIII aided the entrance of Protestant beliefs into England when he...
Broke England's ties with the Roman Catholic Church
As a colony, Rhode Island became known for...
individualist and independent attitudes
A major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony in 1634 was to...
Be financially profitable and creat a refuge for the Catholis
According to Anne Hutchison son, a dissenter in Massachusetts Bay
the truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of God or man
Indentured Servants
English yeoman who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called this
The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion
the Virginia governor's refusal to retaliate against Indian attacks on frontier settlements
Triangular Trade of the colonial American Shipping industry ...
Involved the trading of rum for African slaves
The Headright system consisted of
Giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America
The Great Awakening
Undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies, Split colonial churches into several competing denominations, and was the first mass movement of the American people
The clash between Britain and France for control of the North America continent sprang from the rivalry for control of...
The Ohio River vally
The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was too...
Achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat
The Proclamation of 1763
prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
Colonist objected to the Stamp Act because...
Parliament passed the tax, not the colonist
One purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to...
Explain to the rest of the world why the colonies had revolted
The Battle of Saratoga was a key victory for the Americans because it...
Brought the colonist much-needed aid and a formal alliance with France
Britain Gave America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris because British leaders...
Were trying to persuade America to abandon its alliance with France
The Founders failed to eliminate slavery because...
A fight over slavery might destroy national unity
The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to...
Enforce a tax-collecting program
Shay's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for...
A stronger central government
Three-Fifths Compromise
how the Constitutional Convention addressed the North-South controversy over slavery
Probably the most alarming characteristic of the new Constitution to those who opposed it
Absence of a Bill of Rights
Hamilton's financial program for the economic development of the United States favored...
the wealthier class
Main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts
silence and punish critics of the Federalists
the Whiskey Rebellion
backcountry pioneer folks saw whiskey not as a luxury, but as an economic necessity and medium of exchange. Protesters felt burdened by Hamilton's economic programs. They even erected whiskey poled similar to liberty poles used against the stamp act. (Washington responder to the Whiskey rebellion with force, he DID NOT negotiate with the protesters)
Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his
moderation in the administration of public policy
How John Marshall, a chief justice of the U.S, helped to strengthen the judicial branch
by asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislative, giving the Supreme Court the power to determine constitutionality
Why Thomas Jefferson wad conscience-stricken about the perchance of the Louisiana Territory from France
He believed that the perchance was unconstitutional
The Jeffersonian-Democrats presented themselves as
Strict constructionist, protectors of agrarian purity, and Strong supporters of stats rights. (They DID NOT believe in a strong central government)
Henery Clay embraced a program called the American system in 1824 that would create...
A strong banking system, a protective tariff to enable manufacturing to grow, and a network of roads and canals for transporting foodstuffs, raw materials, and manufactured goods nationwide. (It DID NOT create a navy to protect merchant ships)
The Missouri compromise resulted in
Extremist in both the North and South not being satisfied, Missouri entering the Union as a slave state, and Main entering the Union as a free state. (it increased sectionalism, it DID NOT reduce it)
The outcome of the Was of 1812
stimulus to patriotic nationalism in the United States
The Monroe Doctrine
Was am expression of the illusion of deepening American isolationism from world affairs
John Quincy Adams ,elected president in 1825, was changed by his political opponents with having struct a "corrupt bargain" when he...
appointed Henry Clay to become Secretary of state
Reason Southerners feared the Tariff of 1828
this same power could be used to suppress slavery
The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs
The Second Great Awaking tended to
Widen the lines between classes and religion
These where associated with the raise of the modern Women's right movement in 1848
the declaration of sentiments, The Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, The demand for the ballot for women (they DID NOT call to boycott traditional marriages )
Under the cotton kingdom
cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports, the south produced more than half the entire world's supply of cotton, 75% of the British supply of cotton came from the south (the South DID NOT reap all the profits from the cotton trade, The North benefited too)
The Members of the Planter Aristocracy
dominated society and politics in the South
Slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher's Uncle Tom's Cabin
The enforces separation of slave families, whose members could be sold away from each other
In 1846 the United Stated went to Was with Mexico because
The ideology of Manifest destiny, The death of American soldiers at the hands of Mexicans, and Polk's desire to acquire California. (The DID NOT go to war over the impulse to satisfy those asking for spot resolutions)
One argument against annexing Texas to the United State
It might give more ppwer to the supporters of slavery
The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexica ceded to the United States
Manifest Density
The 1840's view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America.
Those people who most opposed President James K. Polk's expansionist program
Anti-Slavery Forces
According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by
the people in any given territory
The event that treated to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the united States
the discovery of gold in California and its bid for statehood
The most alarming aspect of the compromise of 1850 to the northerner was
the new fugitive slave act
in 1857 the supreme court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that
protection of slavery was guaranteed in all territories of the west.
John Brown's execution produced these results
Harriet Tubman praised Brawn's support of freedom for slaves, Abolitionist and free soilers were outraged, Ralph Waldo Emerson and other northerners hailed him as a martyr much like Jesus. (It DID NOT result in Brown's bloody past prior to the Harper's Ferry raid being exposed and him being discredited)
In declaring their independence, the Confederate States relied heavily on the example of the
Principles of self-determination of the Declaration of Independence
The Greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War
Their economy
Why a victory at Antietam probably would have won the Confederates Independence
France and Britain were on the Verge of Recognizing the Confederate government
Why the Battle of Gettysburg was significant
Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed
The Freeman's Bureau was established to
act as a kind of welfare agency, provide food clothing, and medical care to slave refugees, and Settle former slaves with forty-acre tracts confiscated from Confederates (They DID NOT relocate blacks west to force them into labor contracts with former masters)
In his 10 precent plan for Reconstruction, president Lincolm promised
Rapid readmission of Southern states into the union
What the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed
Citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
the last federal troops were removed in 1877
The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as
a secret terrorist organization
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