The Original Colonies
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, and New Jersey. The geography of this region featured a moderate climate with fertile soil, flat land, easily-navigable rivers, and wide valleys making it perfect for farming and growing crops. We can thank this region for breakfast.
What is the Middle Colonies?
1797-1801. The first vice president and soon thereafter, the second president, author of the Massachusetts constitution, fueled Jefferson and Madison to write about states' rights.
What is John Adams?
After the Civil War, government funding for transportation and communication systems helped connect the various regions of the nation and create new markets. Republicans returned to Henry Clay’s American system and used federal funds to create this American wonder of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
In 1770 Great Britain sent troops to this city as a means to protect officials trying to administer legislation recently upheld by Parliament. A crowd led by Crispus Attucks, a slave, began to harass British soldiers who fired upon the crowd. Several Americans were killed and the episode was heralded as a turning point where colonial sentiment turned from support of the British crown toward independence.
What is Boston?
A social ideology that, above all, characterized women as subservient to men. It emphasized an ideal woman who was tender and self-sacrificing, a caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband. Woman as cupbearer, homemaker, essentially. This ideology eventually influenced the movement for social, political, and economic equality.
What is the cult of domesticity?
Refers to the route taken by trade ships from Africa, to the New World, and back to Europe. A ship looking to make a profit would begin in Africa and pick up a shipment of slaves and other goods to be sold in the New World. After, the ship sailed across the Atlantic and sold its shipment of slaves in the New World. These slaves would work on plantations, growing cash crops like cotton, tobacco, and sugar.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Another president from Virginia, Era of Good Feelings, credited for establishing the country’s first foreign policy.
What is James Monroe?
This landmark court case ruled that segregation was constitutional under the doctrine of “separate but equal.” Later overturned with Brown v. Board (1954).
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
One of the most important concepts in the foundation of the American government. A political framework that separates power into a three-way system, preventing one portion of government from gaining dominance over the other two. Each branch of government is given powers that allow it to keep its counterparts from gaining too much power.
What is checks and balances?
The term used to label a broad range of laws that would codify a racist ideology and provide legal support for the social, economic, and political oppression of African Americans throughout the South.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
The dominant economic theory in Europe during the period lasting from the 16th to the 18th century. It argues that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism. The key requirements of this system came from a nation’s drive to establish colonies quickly and efficiently.
What is mercantilism?
McKinley's VP, trust buster, rough rider, Nobel Prize winner, conservationist, progressive.
What is Theodore Roosevelt?
Established to provide a sense of community among farmers and to organize resistance. These groups were typically local cooperatives that encouraged farmers to unite and better their communities. From these movements, the Farmers’ Alliance was founded after the Panic of 1873 and grew to be one of the largest farmers’ groups ever.
What is the Grange Movement?
This seminal legal case was the first time the U.S. Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional. The Supreme Court’s act established the doctrine of judicial review, which is when the US Supreme Court reviews the constitutional validity of a legislative act.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
A religious revival that took place after the American Revolution between 1790 and 1840 in an effort to restore a simpler form of Christianity. This religious movement was felt nationwide. While not a direct rebuke of the Enlightenment movement, it did challenge some core Enlightenment aspects and rationalizations that embodied the scientific and logic based movement. Influenced social change practices, the growth of evangelical churches, and the role of women.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
During the 16th century, the Spanish government established this system in the Americas to divide up the American Indian labor force. Under this system, a Spanish conquistador, or another male Spaniard of significant social status was given the labor of a number of Native Americans living in the area.
What is the Encomienda System?
The second of three presidents to serve in 1881, was shot 200 days into his term and died a few months later from complications, but not before he left his mark with efforts to end political corruption.
What is James Garfield?
A number of Americans found religion more convincing that Social Darwinism in justifying the wealth of successful industrialists and bankers. Because he diligently applied his Protestant work ethic to both his business and personal life, John D. Rockefeller concluded that “God gave me my riches.” Andrew Carnegie's wrote this article, stating that the wealthy had a God-given responsibility to carry out projects of civic philanthropy for the benefit of society.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
Known as this to Southern states. Passed by President Jackson to protect the American economy from cheap British goods coming into the nation. Hurt the South because it was agrarian and relied on cheap trade with Europe. One of many causes of the American Civil War.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
An African-American social reformer, writer, and statesmen. He escaped from slavery, became a leader of the abolitionist movement, and became the most famous black abolitionist. Founder of The North Star newspaper.
A famous American abolitionist, social reformer, and journalist. He is best known for his famous newspaper The Liberator and for his founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
What is Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison?
This was a brief yet meaningful uprising of western farmers against the government of Virginia culminating in the burning of Jamestown on September 19, 1676. An armed revolt against the government of Governor William Berkeley because of lack of retaliatory action against Indian attacks on western farmers, declining tobacco prices coupled with excessive taxation policies that favored the wealthy, and accusations of government corruption and favoritism towards the emerging planter elite in Virginia.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
"It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits, and that as it shall be extended the bonds of our Union, so far from being weakened, will become stronger."- Mr. Manifest Destiny
What is James K. Polk?
"Our war is not a war of conquest; we are fighting in defense of our homes, our families, and posterity...What we need is an Andrew Jackson to stand, as Jackson stood, against the encroachments of organized wealth...If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing we will fight them to the uttermost." Author? Speech?
What is William Jennings Bryan? What is the Cross of Gold speech?
The reason this 1854 legislation was so controversial is because it nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This created greater tension between pro-slavery and anti-slavery voters and ultimately led to the Civil War.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
"Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine..."
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?