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People who lost land for supporting the British.
Loyalists
River on which the U.S. lost the right of deposit.
Mississippi
Refused to leave forts in the western U.S.
Great Britain
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
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
Means there are three branches of government.
Separation of power
Means each branch has power but not unlimited.
Checks n balances
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)
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
At the bottom of the ladder in the south.
Slaves
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
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
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