Colonial Period
First written attempt at Self-Government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
Name two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
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Doubled the size of the USA
Louisiana Purchase
Who wrote Uncle Toms cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What are the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments?
13: Abolished Slavery
14: Gave them citizens
15: Suffrage
This European period emphasized natural rights and that government's power came from the people. It had a profound impact on the American colonies.
Enlightenment
Shays' Rebellion
Who do we consider as the "Manifest Destiny" President?
James K. Polk
Established the 36 30 line and temporarily kept a balance of free and slave states.
Missouri Compromise
The new form of servitude for African Americans that kept them in a cycle of debt
Sharecropping
Religious purposes
This Compromise, pushed by the south, dealt with the issue of counting slaves in terms of representation.
3/5ths
What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase?
Wanted the land for a railroad
What act repealed the 36 30 line part of the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska
Confederate States
What is one difference between the Northern Colonies' economy vs. the Southern Colonies' economy
North: Shipbuilding, trading, commerce, whaling
South: cash crops, plantation agriculture.
In this speech, a founding father warned Americans against political parties and foreign alliances.
Washington's Farewell Address
What discovery causes cities like San Francisco and San Diego to boom?
Gold
Which court case ruled that State governments do not have the authority to limit the rights of Native Americans living in their state
Worcester vs. Georgia
Created to support the reincorporation of African Americans into society
Freedman Bureau
Locke's theory that brought forth the idea of "consent of the governed."
Social Contract Theory
What kind of legislature did the Great Compromise create?
Bicameral
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
Guadeloupe Hidlago
What are three parts of the Compromise of 1850?
California was admitted to the Union as a free state.
The slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.
Stronger fugitive slave laws were adopted.
Pop sov in Mexican cession territories
What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1877?
Hayes elected president and troops are withdrawn from the south