history final

People who lost land for supporting the British.

Loyalists

River on which the U.S. lost the right of deposit.

Mississippi

13. Refused to leave forts in the western U.S.

Great Britain

14. Financial situation after the Revolution.

Recession

Violent ineident in Massachusetts over debt.

shays rebellion

Site of meeting over revising the Articles.

Philadelphia

Income from section of a townships was used for this.

Public school

Kept a written record of the Convention's proceedings.

James Madison

Proposed the small state plan.

William Paterson

20. Proposed the Great Compromise.

Roger Sherman

Means the people elect officials to run the country.

Representative democracy

Means there are levels of government.

Federal system

23. Means there are three branches of government.

Separation of power

24. Means each branch has power but not unlimited.

Checks n balances

25. Means we can change the Constitution.

Amending

Process of sending Constitution to the states to accept or not.

Ratification

The Federalist authors were John Jay, James Madison and?

Alexander Hamilton

The first state to accept the Constitution.

Delaware

The second state to accept the Constitution.

Pennsylvania

The great compromise

The large states liked the plan to amend the articles. the Small states didn't. Ben Franklin formed a committee. They agreed On the 3 branches. There was a plan proposed to keep all but 5 articles.

* Majority of the deregates thought revising wouidn't work Roger Sherman proposed a compromise on representation


* There was to b one house one with representation by population and one where all States were equal.

3/5 compromise

-each slave would count for 3/5 of a person for taxation and representation purposes

The one sentence introduction to the Constitution.

Preamble

The presiding officer of the House of Representatives

The speaker

The ordinary presiding officer of the Senate. d

Vice President

Represents the people by population. a

House of reps

Represents the people equally.

The senate

Talking a bill to death.

Filibuster

Meaning of impeachment.

Bring to trial (to kick out)

8. Does most of the work on bills.

Committees

The president's ability to say no to a bill.

Vetoe

The House of Representatives must begin this type of bill.

Money

All of the following are Federal courts except

Magistrate

The term of a Supreme Court Justice is

Life

Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over

Cases involving a state

The number of Justices today are

9

The requirements for being a federal judge are

None

Treaty which ended the War of 1812.

French Revolution

Building this capital was part of a compromise on war debt.

Washington

The first Secretary of the Treasury.

Alexander Hamilton

Native Americans were defeated by this general.

Gen Anthony wayne

tax on things that are not necessary.

Excise tax

Unpopular treaty with Great Britain.

Jay treaty

Popular treaty with Spain.

Pinckney

This received early support in the U.S., but faded later.

Ghent

Not happy about westward expansion.

Native Americans

Three French men asking for a bribe to negotiate.

XYZ affair

How did the National Anthem come to be written

During when Fort McHenry was being attacked by the British

* Scott Key- a man captured by the British write the peon "The Stars Spangled Banner" describing how the flag was still standing and the the war
* he gave the poem to his brother in law who transferred it to be a National Anthem today

how did the us come to buy the louisiana territory?

Napoleon decided to give up his plans for Louisiana, and offered a surprised Monroe and Livingston the entire territory of Louisiana for $15 million.

What happened in the Lewis and Clark expedition

After the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was made, Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory beyond the "great rock mountains" in the West

* they mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains in their journals

Means to ignore a law.

Nullify

Senate debate over states' rights and nullification.

Webster- Hayne

Said Jackson could use army and navy to enforce laws.

Force bill

Their land was desired by White farmers in the South.

5 civilized trives

Won a lawsuit in the Supreme Court; lost their land anyway.

Cherokee

Journey of the Cherokee to Oklahoma.

Trail of Tears

Means to leave the country.

Secede

Blamed for the Depression which started in 1837.

Martin van Buren

The political party opposed to Andrew Jackson.

The Whigs

First President to die in office.

William Henry Harrison

First Vice President to move up to President.

John Tyler

Possibly the first presidential campaign slogan.

"Tippercanoe n Tyler too"

Ending slavery over a longer period of time.

Gradualism

Land purchased in Africa by Amer. Colonization Society.

Liberia

William L. Garrison's newspaper.

The Liberator

Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

William Lloyd Garrison

Former male slave who wrote is autobiography.

Fredrick Douglas

Former female slave giving powerful talks against slavery.

Sojourner Truth

Very successful agent in bringing American to Texas.

Stephen Austin

Unused mission defended till death by Americans.

The Alamo

The Idea that the US was to go from Atlantic to Pacific was

Manifest Destiny

This caused the Us intially not to annex Texas

Slavery

Nominee who made annexing Texas a major campaign issue was

James K Polk

Land claim that was settled peacefully with Great Britain was

Oregon

River that Mexico claimed as the boundary of Texas

Nueces

A low tariff which raises money for the government.

Revenue

The most successful canal

Erie Canal

First National Highway

Cumberland

Invented the first steamboat

Robert Fulton

Built the first textile machines in the U.S.

Sam Slater

Put up the money for the first textile factory in the U.S.

Moses Brown

Built textile factories all over New England.

Francis G Lowell

The first national steamboat

Clermont

Invented the first successful train engine in the U.s.

Peter Copper

Name of the First Engine

Tom Thumb

Invented the telegraph and Morse code

Samuel Morse

Vetoed a bill for US funding of transportation developments.

James Madison

Invented the Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney

Became the main crop of the South

Cotton

Had all the wealth and power in the South.

Planter elite

Ordinary farmers, maybe a few or no slaves.

Yeoman Farmers

27. At the bottom of the ladder in the south.

Slaves

28. Country that could have protected the independent in S.A.

Great Britain

Allowed to private construction companies of roads.

Change in toll

Led the first major slave uprising.

Gabriel Prosser

State with the first miles of railroad track in the country was

Maryland

Free Southern Black accused of planning a slave revolt and executed

Denmark Vesey

explain the background and the contents of the Monroe Doctrine

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best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere.

* delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, warns European nations that Further colonization of the Americas by European countries is prohibited.

What was Eli Whitney's intent on the effects of the Cotton Gin on the South

His intent was to make a more effective t way to produce mass amounts of cotton without the use of slaves

* he wanted to make a machine to do all the work and it worked, but it instead caused an upbringing of more demeaned cotton and more slaves

Missouri Compromise

an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories

Idea that people would vote to be slave or free.

Popular Sovereignty