Midterm Study Guide

Puritan philosophy

________- NO POWs therefore prisoners were executed or sold into slavery.

Jefferson

________ sent Livingston and Monroe to France with an offer to buy New Orleans and Florida.

Abraham Lincolns

________ request for President James K. Polk to identify the exact spot where American blood was spilled right before the Mexican War.

Protestantism

________ was adopted by the growing nation- states of the North.

Mormons

________ were persecuted because of polygamy belief- so Brigham Young led them to Utah to settle.

Chesapeake tobacco

________ had a monopoly in England.

Slave traders

________ sent between 10 million and 15 million enslaved people from Africa.

Tenoctitlan

________ has 100, 000 warriors and canals.

America

They were the first group of women to speak publicly in ________.

Stephen Douglas

________, a Sen. From Illinois secured the passage of a bill that:

Smallpox

________ killed over 90 percent of the natives.

States

________ have the power to declare laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional or null and void.

Judicial review

________: the legal power of a court to determine if a decision contradicts or violates the Constitution.

Temperance Movement

1812 ________ was launched mostly by women- made up around 65 % of membership.

Salutary neglect

________: rules put in but are not enforced.

Slaves

________ were introduced in 1619.

Andrew Jackson

In 1830, ________ signed the Indian Removal Act.

servants

Indentured ________- served 7 years in exchange for paid trip, food, and shelter, and burned down Jamestown in Bacons Rebellion.

General Winfield Scott

________ captured Vera Cruz and Mexico City and later becomes US Head of Military.

Catholic

Began as an attempt to reform the ________ church and resulted in the destruction of religious unity of Western Europe.

Erie Canal

________-"Clintons Big Ditch, "364 mi from Albany to Buffalo, reduced $ 100 per ton to $ 8, caused more canals to be built.

Captain John Smith

________ leads the colonists.

large numbers of Irish

Nativism grew within the US because of ________ and German immigrants moving to the US.

Captain John C Fremont

________ led American settlers to drive Mexican authorities out of California and established CA (Bear Republic), later becomes the first Republican presidential candidate.

Smith

________ was killed in the "burned out district "in New York for his practice of polygamy.

Europe

Marked the beginning of modern ________ and influenced the development of Western Civilization.

American colonies

The law produced a rebellious nature in the ________.

Abraham Lincoln

________ felt that the war was unconstitutional and throughout the war called for "spot resolutions.

Judicial review

________ led to the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, removing the Midnight Judges.

Starving Time

resorted to cannibalisms due to no hunting and farming

Unfit soil for farming

merchants, ship builders, fishermen, traders

Fertile soil

more agriculture and "hard" work

Salutary neglect

rules put in but are not enforced

Simony

sale of church offices

Sale of indulgences

buying forgiveness of sins

Great Schism(divide)

beginning in 1378 when French and Anti-French cardinals elected 2 popes (1 in Rome and 1 in Avignon)

Invention of the Printing Press

allowing dissenters to spread their ideas throughout Europe and making the Bible available to the common people

Britain upset with the colonists and their protesting over the Townshend Acts

so Britain sent troops to Boston to help keep the peace

The colonists do not want the British troops in Boston

so the situation between the colonists and British soldiers become very tense

Colonists used crowd politics

Led by Sons of Liberty (Samuel Adams)

1700

250000

1790

the est

1860

the est

Ireland

Catholic, worked in factories, poor

Indentured servants

served 7 years in exchange for paid trip, food, and shelter, and burned down Jamestown in Bacons Rebellion

1670

3,000 slaves

1861

4 million slaves in the Chesapeake colonies alone

Puritans saw it as their mission to destroy the Indians

(Puritans even attacked the Praying Towns and slaughtered the Indians there)

Puritan philosophy

NO POWs therefore prisoners were executed or sold into slavery

The bitter struggle over financial matters during Washingtons administration resulted in the formation of 2 political parties

Federalists and Democratic-Republicans

Several Revolutionary leaders were also absent

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, etc

President

George Washington

Secretary

James Madison

Lent prestige and wisdom

Ben Franklin

Came to the conclusion that the Articles could not be revised

they need to start over

Mexican War proved to be the training ground for many Civil War generals

Lee, Grant, Sherman, etc

It passed because it was understood the KS would be slave and NB free

but what happened was everyone followed popular sovereignty and created a war in Kansas

Germans

middle class, Protestant, productive workers

Irish

Catholic, poor, worked in factories, suffered from nativism

Convention held in Hartford

advocated states rights doctrine and nullification

Judicial review

the legal power of a court to determine if a decision contradicts or violates the Constitution

1812 Temperance Movement was launched mostly by women

made up around 65% of membership

Mormons were persecuted because of polygamy belief

so Brigham Young led them to Utah to settle

Napoleon offers Livingston and Monroe

New Orleans and all of the LA Territory for $15 million

Erie Canal

"Clintons Big Ditch," 364 mi from Albany to Buffalo, reduced $100 per ton to $8, caused more canals to be built