U.S History Exam Review

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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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Booker T. Washington
black should gradually integrate
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WEB duBois
blacks should integrate NOW!!
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Homestead Act
1862- if live for five years on property, get 160 Acres
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Century of Dishonor
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Cleveland
Democrat, 2 non-consecutive terms,
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Garfield’s death
rummage rummage
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William McKinley
killed by crazy guy
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the Maine
ship esplodes, blame Spain
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yellow journalism
exaggerated newspaper stories
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Spanish American War
1898-U.S wins easily-don’t annex Cuba-meddling
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Disease
kills 10x more soldiers than bullets in SA War
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Big Stick Diplomacy
TR-be diplomatic-have military power
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Panama Canal
helped Panama get independence from Columbia
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Great White Fleet
16 Battleships- World Tour 1907
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Muckrakers
write about problems to prompt reform
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Upton Sinclair
The Jungle