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Northwest
cool/rainy, fishing, cedar trees, totem poles
Eastern Woodlands
temperate, permanent house, hunting and farming
Roger Williams
founded Rhode Island
Maryland
Catholics
Georgia
buffer zone, for debtors
Mercantilism
colonies exist to serve mother country
Salutary Neglect
Britain ignores us during their war with France
French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
France and Indians vs. Britain and Colonies
Proclamation of 1763
no settling beyond Appalachian Mtns.
Sugar Act
1st Tax (on sugar) and 1st boycott by colonies
Townshend Duties
tax on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea
Tea Act
lowered tax on tea, but made us buy from Britain
Boston Tea Party
342 Chests of Tea
American Revolution
1775-1781
Thomas Paine
Common sense- break from Britain
Saratoga
battle that brought French aid (1778)
Treaty of Paris
independence and land to the Mississippi River
Critical Period
1781-1789
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
process for new states, had equal rights to old states
Great Compromise
representation in congress
Constitution
1787
Checks and Balances
not too strong (Legislative, Judicial, Executive)
Bill of Rights
Amendments 1-10, added so that the Anti-Feds would ratify
Ratification
1788-1789
Federalist Papers
85 pro-constitution essays, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
national banks
State Banks
Jefferson approved
Assumption of Debt
federal government pays off state debt
Protective Tariff
tax on imports
Excise Tax
Whiskey Rebellion- crushed by GW
Strict Construction
national govt can only do what is written
Loose Construction
national govt can do what is necessary and proper
First American-Party System
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
Neutrality Proclamation of 1793
refuse to enter French Revolution
Edmond Genet
tries to convince the U.S to join, gets the boot
Jay Treaty
Britain won’t leave forts, impressing our sailors
Pinckney Treaty
Spain- let us use New Orleans
GW’s Farewell Address
-two terms
-avoid political parties
-avoid foreign stuffs
War Hawks
1810- Calhoun and Clay want war with Britain
War of 1812
with Britain because of impressment
Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson- we think we won the war
Panic of 1819
financial panic to end Era of Good Feelings
Monroe Doctrine
Yeve Bebe Yone
Tariff of Abominations
really high tax on imports
Andrew Jackson
king Andrew
Nullification Crisis
SC nullifies Tariff of Abominations
Martin Van Buren
Panic of 1837- Van Ruin
Election of 1840
like a modern election
Dorothea Dix
asylum lady
Horace Mann and William McGuffey
education
Cult of Domesticity
separate genders- men make moolah, women care for kids
Seneca Falls Convention
1848
William Loyd Garrison
the Liberator
Nat Turner
violent uprising- 55 whites dead-whites kill 100s of slaves
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Maine-Canada border-we get 7/12 and Canada gets 5/12
Polk
expansion, dark horse
Oregon
compromise with Britain
54 40 or fight
Oregon slogan
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848- U.S gets Cali, Nevada
Gadsden Purchase
bought from Mexico for railroads
Zachary Taylor
Milk and Cherries, vetoes Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850
Clay’s last Compromise
Republican Party
opposition to Kansas-Nebraska Act
Immigration
Irish (Pope-adilles), German
Know-Nothing Party
opposition to Immigrants
Pierce/Buchanan
did not help crisis
Election of 1860
Abe Lincoln, SC secedes
13th Amendment
free slaves
Gettysburg
turning point
Presidential Reconstruction
Lincoln allows South to get back very easily
Freedman’s Bureau
help black, mainly schooling
Congressional Elections of 1866
Republicans win 2/3 of Congress
Radical Reconstruction
Republicans
Reconstruction Act of 1867
5 military districts
14th Amendment
blacks are citizens :)
15th Amendment
black men can vote
Compromise of 1877
1876 election contested
New South
diversify economy
Solid South
DEMOCRAT
Gilded Age
1865-1900
New Immigration
China, Japan, Russia, Italy
Terence Powderly
Created Knights of Labor-all men could join
Samuel Gompers
leader of American Federation of Labor- only skilled white men
Plessy v. Ferguson
separate but equal