What was the colonies biggest issue with the taxes being levied by England?
Taxation without representation.
John Locke said that among fundamental natural rights were what three things?
Life, Liberty and Property
Later changed by Thomas Jefferson to, "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
This compromise allowed for more representation in congress for slave states.
3/5 Compromise
What economic ideology did the Northern states support?
The Free Labor ideology.
What did the Missouri Compromise state?
True/False Lincoln vowed to end all slavery if he were elected president.
False
Who was Dred Scott and what issue brought is case to court?
Scott was an African American enslaved to a military doctor who lived in a free state for a period of time. Under the law at the time this should have made him a free man- yet he was not freed.
What were some of the first items that saw standardization and mass production?
Clothing, weapons, canned goods
Andrew Carnegie
Steel Industry
Bridge Making
What did the Proclamation of 1763 state?
No westward expansion past the Appalachian Mountains.
What are the 3 branches of government outlined in the Constitution?
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
What clause answered the question, "If an enslaved person could make it to a free state- were they then free or still a slave?".
The Fugitive Slave Clause.
The economic success of southern plantations depended on what economic ideology?
The Slave Labor Ideology.
What state entered into the Union as a Free state when Missouri was entered into the union as a Slave state?
Maine
This abolitionist leader and former slave played a part in changing Lincolns thinking on slavery.
Frederick Douglass
What city and state did the Scott case go to court in originally?
St. Louis, Missouri
What is the name of the manufacturing system that came to be during this time?
American System of Manufacturing
John D. Rockefeller
Oil Refining
Cleveland Massacre
In what way was England wanting to control the colonies trade?
Mandating that all trading go through England.
Where are our Civil Liberties found and what are their purpose
The Bill of Rights
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
Protect us from the Government
What was decided in regard to the African Save Trade?
To allow it to exist for 20 more years.
What new Political Party was formed during this time?
What groups encompassed this new Party?
The Republican Party.
Those who held the Free Labor ideology of the North
Abolitionists
The Know Nothing Party
What Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and what did in do?
What were some of the reasons for the growing anti-war movement in the North?
The length of the war, losing battles, and graphic photographs.
Who is Roger Taney?
Chief Justice of Supreme Court during Scott case, also a slave owner.
What impact did Machine Tool Technology have on the war?
Created weapons with more precision than ever before.
Allowed for interchangeable parts.
The Declaration of Independence made what bold statement about humanity?
All men are created equal.
What was/is the United States called because of its' unique form of government?
The Great Experiment
True/False Lincoln was an ablitionist?
False
What is the aftermath of the Kansas Nebraska Act is referred to as what?
Bleeding Kansa.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
What didn't it do?
Freed enslaved individuals in states in rebellion only, did not free slaves in Northern States.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
Dred Scott would not gain his freedom, that slavery was protected under the 5th Amendment and further no African American was or ever would be citizens of the United States.
True/False The Transcontinental Railroad is a result of the Civil War
True
Lincoln did not have the power to change the Constitution, how was he able to pass the Emancipation Proclamation ?
As the Commander and Chief of the military he issued it as a wartime effort.
What are some of the new business ideas that came from the Transcontinental Railroad?
Standard Time Zones
Bureaucratic Structures
Telegraph
Cost Accounting
National Market / National Prices