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Colonial traders carried rum, molasses, slaves and gold between North American, Africa and the Caribbean in this trade:
Triangular trade
These 3 country’s had colonies in North America
England, France and Spain
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. It’s most far reaching result was ____________ lost all land in the new world.
France
Britain tried to stop the settlement of American colonists west of the Appalachians with this proclamation:
Proclamation of 1763
The main reason for the American colonists declaring their independence from Great Britain was
no taxation without representation
This battle was the turning point of the Revolution. After the American victory here the French joined the fight on the American side against the British:
Saratoga
These were the first battles of the American Revolution and the “Shot heard ‘round the World:
Lexington and concord
What was the colonists most powerful weapon against the British Taxes? It forced the British to repeal the Stamp Act.
Boycotting
The ideas of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson expressed in the Declaration of Independence stressed the fact that governmental power should rest upon the ____?
Consent of the people
What was the name of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet that changed many Americans minds and convinced many people to support the cause of independence
Common Snese
What does the first Amendment guarantee?
Freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion.
What convinced the majority of Americans that the country was heading for disaster under the Articles of Confederation and that a constitutional convention should be called.
Shay’s Rebellion
The ___________ promised by Roger Sherman was an agreement made at the Constitutional Convention between the large and small states about how each state would be represented in bicameral Congress.
Great Compromise
The compromise that called for three-fifths of all slaves to be counted for representational purposes is called the
3/5 compromise
What condition was the government in under the Articles of Confederation?
Weak
Congress consists of two parts:
Senate and House of Representatives.
How is the president elected?
By the electoral collage
When is a President impeached?
When the house of reps. presents charges.
A change in or addition to the Constitution is known as an
amendment.
The formation of the political parties can be traced back to the different philosophies of
Hamilton and Jefferson
When a state refuses to follow a federal law in their state
Nullification
The first secretary of the Treasury
Hamilton
The first secretary of State
Jefferson
A broad undefined territory west of the Mississippi River acquired by the US from France in 1830 for $15 million which doubled the size of the US
Louisiana Purchase
In reaction to the war between France and England, President Washington issued a declaration of
neutrality
Why was the case of Marbury vs. Madison important?
It established Judicial review
One of the reasons the U.S. declared war against the British in 1812 was the ___________of U.S. sailors and seizure of American ships.
impressment
How much land did the US loose to the British from the Treaty of Ghent?
NONE
3 things federalists would have supported
Strong central government, national bank, manufacturing
Who created the cotton gin, interchangeable parts and mass production?
Eli Whitney
What were the goals of the American System?
to unify the nation, create a national currency and improve methods of transportation in the new nation
What did the Monroe Doctrine state?
warned European powers not to interfere with the affairs of the U.S. and the Western Hemisphere
What was the missouri compromise?
admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state and made slavery illegal in the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Which president is the “spoils system“ associated with?
Jackson
Creator of the American System
Henry Clay
What was the forced relocation to the west of the Missippi of the Cherokee People called?
Trail of Tears
Nationalism
Extreme pride in ones country
What did southerners do as the Abolition movement gained power in the North?
Unite in defense of slavery
What is Fredrick Douglas famous for?
Escaping slavery, writing the North Star Newspaper, speaking out against slavery
The founder of the method of peaceful protest called Civil Disobedience is known as
Thoreau
Restrictions put on free blacks
Black Codes
Temperance movement goal
limit the consumption of alcohol
Customs said women belonged in the home
Cult of Domesticity
This woman worked to reform prisons and conditions for the mentally ill
Doreathea Dix
The movement to outlaw slavery
abolition
The belief that the United States was meant to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory
Manifest destiny
The slogan “Fifty-four Forth or Fight” refers to
The Northern border of Oregon territory
The conflicts over the balance of free and slave states delayed the annexation of______
Texas
Who was the president during the war with Mexicao?
Polk
Why did the Mormons move west?
To escape religious persecution
The term forty-niners refers to
gold rush miners
Who was the Texas commander-in-chief during the Texas Revolution against Mexico?
Sam Houston
The Fort Laramie Treaty was repeatedly violated by
The US government
The primary dispute between the U.S. and Mexico that prompted the Mexican-American War in 1846 was the U.S. demand that the border between Mexico and the U.S. be the
Rio Grande River
The Gadsden Purchase
Completed the lower 48 state borders.
Who helped free over 300 slaved using the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What did the Compromise of 1850 do?
The Admission of California as a free state, the adoption of a stricter fugitive slave law, and the adoption of popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico
What did the Free Soil party oppose?
The expansion of Slavery into the US territories
The Dred Scott Case
The Supreme court ruled that being on free territory did not make a slave free.
Popular sovrignty
Leaving the decision of whether a territory would become a free or slave state to the voters of the territory.
Lincoln’s position that slavery was a moral evil and its spread to the territories had to be stopped was expressed during the _______debates.
Lincolon-Douglass
The Republican Party was formed by
People’s similar opinions about opposing slavery
Who was elected president in 1860 when the country split along sectional lines. He carried all the Northern states and none of the Southern states.
Lincoln
The know-nothing nativist party was against
immigrants
The first president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
What was Lincolns goal when the Civil War began?
Preserve the Union
The southern states began to sucede from the union after
Lincolns election
Prisoner of War camp where union soldiers were taken
Andersonville
Bloodiest day in American History
Battle of Antietam
What were the Northern states called during the Civil War
Union
The Civil War battle considered the turning point of the Civil War because it crippled Confederate Forces so badly that they never again invaded the North was
Gettysburg
The final surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army occurred at
Appomattox
Which amendment abolished slavery
the 13th
What really freed no slaves but gave the Union troops a high, moral purpose for fighting the war and prevented England and France from interfering on the side of the South.
The Emancipation Proclamation.
Clara Barton was best knows for
Improving health and sanitation for soldiers
The Union’s wartime military strategy to strangle the South through blockade and cut it in half by traveling up the Mississippi River
Anaconda Plan
Which two generals adopted a strategy of “Total war“ against the south?
Grant and Sherman
When it came to reconstruction, Lincoln wanted to
go easy on the south
Which amendment provided citizenship and civil right for freed slaves
14th amendment
This signaled the end of Reconstruction
the Compromise of 1877
Which amendment protected the voting rights of all male citizens, regardless of race, color, or having been a slave
15th amendment
This group used terrorist tactics in an effort to prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights
KKK
The House of Representatives impeached President Johnson for having violated the
Tenure of Office Act
President Grant and Reconstruction lost popularity with voters because of
scandal
Homesteader
someone who farmed free land given by the government
________of the Plains Indians was intended to help them adapt to white culture.
assimilation
Populism was founded by
Farmers
When the U.S. Army’s seventh cavalry slaughtered 300 Native Americans in South Dakota, marking an end to the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians
battle of Wounded Knee
Which invention ended the wide-open western frontier era?
Barbed Wire
____ gave federal land to help finance agricultural colleges
Morrill Land Grants
the technique used by labor unions to gain workers rights
collective bargaining
_____ made it possible during the late 1800’s for skyscrapers to be constructed
Bessemer process
This term was used to justify the existence of poverty, the success of big business, and the power of millionaire industrialists
Social Darwinism
He attempted to control the entire steel industry through vertical integration and horizontal consolidation
Carnegie
He took control of the oil industry in the United States
Rockefeller
Workers who are used to break strikes
scab
The robber barons of the late 1800’s were
powerful industries
Monopoly
When one company controls a industry
inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Did the government regulate businesses in the late 1800’s?
No