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Northwest

cool/rainy, fishing, cedar trees, totem poles

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Eastern Woodlands

temperate, permanent house, hunting and farming

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Roger Williams

founded Rhode Island

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Maryland

Catholics

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Georgia

buffer zone, for debtors

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Mercantilism

colonies exist to serve mother country

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Salutary Neglect

Britain ignores us during their war with France

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French and Indian War (Seven Years War)

France and Indians vs. Britain and Colonies

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Proclamation of 1763

no settling beyond Appalachian Mtns.

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Sugar Act

1st Tax (on sugar) and 1st boycott by colonies

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Townshend Duties

tax on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea

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Tea Act

lowered tax on tea, but made us buy from Britain

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Boston Tea Party

342 Chests of Tea

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American Revolution

1775-1781

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Thomas Paine

Common sense- break from Britain

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Saratoga

battle that brought French aid (1778)

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Treaty of Paris

independence and land to the Mississippi River

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Critical Period

1781-1789

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

process for new states, had equal rights to old states

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Great Compromise

representation in congress

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Constitution

1787

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Checks and Balances

not too strong (Legislative, Judicial, Executive)

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Bill of Rights

Amendments 1-10, added so that the Anti-Feds would ratify

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Ratification

1788-1789

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Federalist Papers

85 pro-constitution essays, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay

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Hamilton’s Financial Plan

national banks

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State Banks

Jefferson approved

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Assumption of Debt

federal government pays off state debt

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Protective Tariff

tax on imports

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Excise Tax

Whiskey Rebellion- crushed by GW

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Strict Construction

national govt can only do what is written

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Loose Construction

national govt can do what is necessary and proper

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First American-Party System

Federalists and Democratic-Republicans

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Neutrality Proclamation of 1793

refuse to enter French Revolution

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Edmond Genet

tries to convince the U.S to join, gets the boot

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Jay Treaty

Britain won’t leave forts, impressing our sailors

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Pinckney Treaty

Spain- let us use New Orleans

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GW’s Farewell Address

-two terms

-avoid political parties

-avoid foreign stuffs

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War Hawks

1810- Calhoun and Clay want war with Britain

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War of 1812

with Britain because of impressment

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Battle of New Orleans

Andrew Jackson- we think we won the war

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Panic of 1819

financial panic to end Era of Good Feelings

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Monroe Doctrine

Yeve Bebe Yone

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Tariff of Abominations

really high tax on imports

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Andrew Jackson

king Andrew

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Nullification Crisis

SC nullifies Tariff of Abominations

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Martin Van Buren

Panic of 1837- Van Ruin

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Election of 1840

like a modern election

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Dorothea Dix

asylum lady

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Horace Mann and William McGuffey

education

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Cult of Domesticity

separate genders- men make moolah, women care for kids

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Seneca Falls Convention

1848

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William Loyd Garrison

the Liberator

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Nat Turner

violent uprising- 55 whites dead-whites kill 100s of slaves

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Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Maine-Canada border-we get 7/12 and Canada gets 5/12

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Polk

expansion, dark horse

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Oregon

compromise with Britain

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54 40 or fight

Oregon slogan

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848- U.S gets Cali, Nevada

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Gadsden Purchase

bought from Mexico for railroads

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Zachary Taylor

Milk and Cherries, vetoes Compromise of 1850

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Compromise of 1850

Clay’s last Compromise

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Republican Party

opposition to Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Immigration

Irish (Pope-adilles), German

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Know-Nothing Party

opposition to Immigrants

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Pierce/Buchanan

did not help crisis

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Election of 1860

Abe Lincoln, SC secedes

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13th Amendment

free slaves

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Gettysburg

turning point

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Presidential Reconstruction

Lincoln allows South to get back very easily

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Freedman’s Bureau

help black, mainly schooling

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Congressional Elections of 1866

Republicans win 2/3 of Congress

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Radical Reconstruction

Republicans

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Reconstruction Act of 1867

5 military districts

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14th Amendment

blacks are citizens :)

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15th Amendment

black men can vote

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Compromise of 1877

1876 election contested

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New South

diversify economy

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Solid South

DEMOCRAT

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Gilded Age

1865-1900

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New Immigration

China, Japan, Russia, Italy

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Terence Powderly

Created Knights of Labor-all men could join

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Samuel Gompers

leader of American Federation of Labor- only skilled white men

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Plessy v. Ferguson

separate but equal

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