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Jon Jay became the foremost advocate for an energetic government promoting vibrant economic development. He believed the US was too dependent on agriculture.

False

The _____ empowered the president to jail and deport “dangerous” aliens.

Alien Friends Act

The ____ provided safeguards for individual rights of speech, assembly, religion, and the press.

Bill of Rights

The ____ stated the enslaved would be included in population counts as a basis for apportioning a state’s congressional representatives.

Three-fifths compromise

The ______ was a narrow footpath that buffalo, deer, and Native Americans had worn along the steep ridges of the Appalachian Mountains.

Warrior Path

Democracy is the political concept that America should be governed not by monarchs or aristocrats but by the authority of the people, whose elected representatives would make the decisions on behalf of the people.

False

The _____ happened when armed farmers seeking debt relief, stormed the Massachusetts federal arsenal.

Shay’s Rebellion

The Second Amendment created a framework within which people of all religious persuasions could flourish and prohibited the federal government from endorsing or supporting any denomination or interfering with the religious choices that people make.

False

The _____ gave the President extraordinary powers to violate civil liberties protected by the Bill of Rights. They limited freedom of speech and of the press, as well as the liberty of immigrants who had not yet gained citizenship.

Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798

The _____ lengthened from five to fourteen years the resident requirements for immigrants to gain US citizenship.

Naturalization Act

By early 1793, these radical French Revolutionaries had executed the king and queen, promoted democracy, religious toleration, human rights, and also social, racial, and sexual equality.

Jacobins

What were the primary responsibilities of the Bank of the United States? 

To provide loans to the federal governments and to state chartered banks, to manage the nations money supply regulating the power of state chartered banks to issue paper currency, and to hold the federal governments revenues and pay its bills.

The ______ was a violent protest by western Pennsylvania farmers against the federal excise tax on "distilled spirits.

whiskey rebellion

In Adam Smith’s book, Wealth of Nations, governments should allow for _______ by which individuals, through hard work and ingenuity, could become prosperous.

Free Enterprise

The brilliant Maryland attorney pointed out that owning human beings (slaves) was inconsistent with the principles of the revolution and dishonorable to the American character.

Luther Martin

Thomas Cobb explained that the aim of the slaveholder was to make a slave as much like brutes as possible.

False

______ was an enslaved African Muslim who purchased his freedom, acquired property, and settled in present day Washington DC.

Yarrow Mamout

Poor whites were day labored or squatters who owned neither land nor enslaved people. Some 40% rented land from others, worked as farm laborer, and toiling for others.

True

Between 1800 and 1860, the average price of enslaved people doubled as breeding and selling enslaved people became a big business.

False

Hermina, a sixteen year old slave, was sold on a New Orleans slave market for ____ dollars?

1250

Identify what becomes reflective of African American religion and spirituality.

1)Some maintained beliefs in spirits, magic, and conjuring. 2)enslaved people found the Bible inspiring in its support for the poor and oppressed.3) about 20% of enslaved adults joined Christian denominations. 4) the belief in a creator or supreme God

He led a revolt in rural Virginia where he murdered slave owners and their families. The federal troops, in turn, killed hundreds of enslaved people in the process of catching him and his rebels.

Nat Turner

On Jan 8th, along the Mississippi River, _____ and his fellow rebels lead an assault where they seized weapons, horses, and militia uniforms. As they grew momentum, they headed to New Orleans and their ranks swelled to over 200.

Charles Deslondes

Urban Slaves toiled in the cotton or cane fields in organized gangs.

False

In 1822, Nat Turner and several others plotted a massive slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina. They would first capture the city’s arsenal and distribute it guns to free and enslaved Blacks.

False

Slave trade and auction houses grew in cities across the south. ____ had twenty slave trading businesses.

New Orleans

____ religious songs offered enslaved people the promise of deliverance from the worldly woes.

Spirituals

Many viewed enslaved people as _____, commodities to be brought and sold.

Human capital

In the 1790, American Eli Whitney solved the cotton production problem by contracting the _____.

First cotton gin/The cotton gin

The British Born revivalist who traveled across 15 states and preached thousands of sermons.

Francis Asbury

_____ & _______ experienced a religious epiphany as a frontier revival and were the first to integrate evangelical preaching into politics.

Peter Cartwright and Francine Gaines

In 1836, his book emphasized that people could transcend the limitations of the material world and rational thinking and discover the “spirit” animating the universe.

Ralph Emerson

_____ saw public schools as the only way to ensure that everyone had a basic level of knowledge and skills.

Horace Mann

The Methodist developed a effective evangelical method when a traveling _____ on horseback sought to convert people in frontier settlements.

Itinerant/evangelist

In 1835, this zealous White activist was dragged through the streets of Boston because he drove the Abolitionist movement

William Lloyd Garrison

____ & ____ we’re Quakers that appealed to Southern Christian women to end slavery.

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

______ was the first African American woman to become a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

jarena lee

____ became the first woman elected an officer in the American anti-slavery society

Abigail Kelley

They abandoned the idea of the Trinity, instead believing that God and Jesus were separate. By following the teachings of Jesus and trusting their consciences, all people were eligible for salvation.

Unitarians

In February 1837, ________ told the Senate that Slavery was “good- a great good, rooted in the Bible.

John Calhoun

The Temperance Convention was established to return formerly enslaved people to Africa.

False

______ defended free speech opposed religious coercion, prized science and reason over traditional religion.

Deists/Deism

He urged enslaved people to revolt. He challenged enslaved and free, to use the “crushing arm of power” to gain their freedom.

David Walker

Julia Ward & Susan Anthony were two prominent women right advocates who called men and women to New York to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.

False

The

The _____ is the largest construction job in North America is the past 400 years.

Erie Canal

How long did it take to build the Erie Canal?

8 years

How many lives were lost building the Erie Canal?

1,000 lives

What word was invented in 1840?

Millionaire

What is cotton’s nickname?

white gold

Cotton loom machines are at the basis of what technology?

all modern computers & internet

What oil was used before crude oil, to fuel lamps and machines?

Whale oil

What was “unique” about the whaling industries hiring and promotion practices?

Equal opportunity for all men, no matter the color of their skin. Gave ex-slaves the possibility of social mobility and acceptance.

Why were young, light skin, female virgins the most frequently bought slaves?

to be used as house slaves

What were common punishments for runaway slaves if they were caught?

Ears cut off, Achilles tendons slashed, and branding.

Describe Frederick Douglass.

He was South's worst nightmare. Has failed at escaping twice before. Intelligent. Borrowed papers from a friend to make his final escape.

What was the bounty on Harriet Tubman's head for being the leader of the Underground Railroad?

40,000

In 1852, what novel, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, becomes the 2nd biggest selling book after the Bible that showed the Northerners true insight into slavery?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

How many weeks after Lincoln takes office are the first shots of the Civil War fired?

5 weeks

Abraham Lincoln received his first death threat before ever taking office. He saved all his death threats in a file he named __________.

assassination

December 20, 1860: What was the first state to secede from the union followed by 10 other slave states?

South Carolina

Which “super powers” ‘own’ the land west of the Cumberland Gap?

Britain, France, and Spain

Why was Daniel Boom moving westward?

because he had a mission to tap the riches

What was Daniel Boone’s main motivation?

He was looking for gold, silver, and natural sources

What did the King of England outlaw in America?

The Westward Expansion

In 1803? Which president bought the Louisiana territory, “the single biggest real estate deal in history,” from Napoleon for 3 cents and acre?

Thomas Jefferson

The Rocky Mountains are made up of how many different mountain ranges?

90

Who do Lewis and Clarke owe their lives and the saving of their journals to?

Sacagawea

How many species of wildlife did Lewis and Clarke discover on their journey?

300

What animal becomes the West’s most valuable commodity, because they have been hunted nearly to extinction in Europe?

Beaver

Today, there are fewer than ______ grizzly bears left in the Rockies.

2,000

The average pioneer walked ____ miles a day for ____ months at a time.

10 miles/6 months

In all: How many Americans died during the mass exodus to the West?

20,000

How did some members of the Donner party survive after being trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for 5 months?

Cannibalism

What super power owned land from Oregon to Guatemala?

Mexico

Why is California considered the nation’s greatest prize when it is acquired?

The Gold

What year did the official “Gold Rush” began?

1848

How many years did the “Gold Rush” last for?

5 years

In 1830, President Jackson begins what ‘protean’ that lasts for over 100 years in America?

The Force Relocation of American Tribal ProgramNative American and Indian Removal Act

How long is the Mississippi River?

2,000 miles

What is the first invention that changes travel and help American commerce in the 19th century?

The Steamboat

Why did some people indenture themselves?

To pay off their debts for traveling to America

What company established a fur trading post in 1624 on a hilly island called Manahattes. The area would become New York City.

Dutch West Indian Company

In what year did the first enslaved Africans arrive in Dutch New Amsterdam?

1626

Describe the work done by the first 11 brought to the New Amsterdam colony.

They were forced to work on farms and provide labor for the colony's development.

what was “half freedom” in the New Amsterdam colony?

when people could grow crops and have farms, but would still have to obey their slave owners

Who was John Punch & what happened to him?

was a lack indentured servant who ran away with two indentured servants, but they only got years added to their sentences, but he was a slave for life.

Who was Emanuel Driggus & what happened to him & his family?

he was a slave of Captain Francis Potts, But Captain Potts seperate his family and sold the kids to someone else.

Who was Emanuel Driggus & what happened to him & his family?

He was a slave of Captain Francis Potts, But Captain Potts seperate his family and sold the kids to someone else.

In 1662 Virginia law makers decreed, "all children born in Virginia shall be held bond or free according to conditions of ___________"

Mother

Who was the woman who successfully sued her master and was released from her indenture?

Francis Driggus

Of the original thirteen colonies, which was the first in which slavery was the center of economic production, making it the first slave society?

Carolina

What were the punishments for running away the first 4 times?

were a brand of an "R" on both cheeks, ear severing and horrible physical mutilation.

How did some slaves fight back against inhumane treatment, especially during harvest time?

They would burn down barns.

Why was a law passed saying the white men must carry guns with them to church?

because that was a slave day off from the fields.

Why were the slaves of the "Stono rebellion" trying to reach Florida?

They wanted to Fort Mose, a colony of freed black slaves.

How were the "Stono rebellion" slaves caught? What happened to them? What were the results of the Stono Rebellion?

Most of the slave were killed in the battle. Those captured were decapitated and put on display as a warning to other slaves who might think of rebelling.

In 1741 what city had the second largest slave population after Charleston, South Carolina?

New York City

How were Quack and 12 others punished for burning down Fort George?

12 slaves were burned at the stake. Slaves and 4 white associated were hung.

By 1750, how many slaves were there in the American colonies?

5,000

What was Jupiter's relationship to Thomas Jefferson?

his valet