Early Colonies
In the late 1600s, the number of enslaved Africans in the South increased dramatically, in part due to a decline in the availability of what group from Europe
Indentured Servants
This act taxed paper goods such as playing cards, newspapers, and legal documents which impacted ALL colonists
Stamp Act
Large and small states were equally represented through Congress
AOC
The idea that America had a right to expand across the continent
Manifest Destiny
Maintained the balance of power between free and slave states with the 36'30" Line and attempted to promote nationalism but ultimately created greater sectionalism
Missouri Compromise
How did the South react to the election of Abraham Lincoln?
Seven southern states seceded from the Union before Lincoln’s inauguration
Which plan is best described as lenient?
10% Plan (Lincoln's Plan)
This encouraged farmers to move west by providing each family with 160 acres of free land.
Homestead Act
Buying out raw material producers and suppliers to improve a company's profit margin is an example of what? (owning all the means of production)
Vertical Integration
This is grown for sale rather than for consumption by the farmer
Cash Crop
The Sons of Liberty successfully got the Stamp and Townshend Acts repealed by doing what?
Boycott!
The national government lacked the power to impose taxes or regulate trade showed which document's weakness?
AOC
Which event was responsible for creating a diverse population in California?
Gold Rush
Warned European powers not to interfere with affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
Military Leadership
Which plan created the Freedman's Bureau, passed the 14th Amendment and Reconstruction Act of 1867?
A home made out of the prairie grass
Soddy
This outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What single word describe the Northern economy/population compared to the Southern economy
Diverse
This was a INDIRECT tax on lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea
Townshend Acts
This settled the debate between how big and small states should be represented in Congress and created a bicameral legislation
The Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise
A system in which incoming presidents throw out the officials appointed by the previous president and replace with their supporters
Spoils System
The Nat Turner Rebellion ultimately resulted in what?
This Union strategy aimed to suffocate the Southern economy through a naval blockade, taking the Mississippi River, and capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond
The Anaconda Plan
These legally separated races
Jim Crow Laws
This invention helped to turnover the tough and rocky soil of the plains.
Steel Plow
In order to fight for better working conditions and better pay, workers would come together to form what?
Unions
This term refers to the part of the transatlantic trade network that carried Africans from Africa to the West Indies and North America
Middle Passage
This was the "Shot Heard Around the World" which marked the first battle of the Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord
This system was put into place to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful over the others
Checks & Balances
The Election of 1824 or the Corrupt Bargain resulted in
John Quincy Adams as the President and Henry Clay as Secretary of State
The Seneca Falls Convention led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton put out resolutions calling for what?
Women's rights
Following this event, Virginia and other southern states joined the Confederacy marking the beginning of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
A secret society that used disguises when attacking and intimidating African Americans
KKK
African Americans from the South who took advantage of the Homestead Act and settled on the Great Plains.
Exodusters
The Chinese Exclusion Act promoted ideas of what?
Nativism
In this theory a country has a favorable balance of trade when the value of exports is greater than the value of imports
Mercantilism
The agreement between the British and the Americans at the end of the Revolutionary War.
Treaty of Paris
Typically from the South and supported farmers and the common man
Anti-Federalist
Andrew Jackson’s veto of the renewal of the Bank of the United States impacted the economy in which of the following ways?
The national economy went into a Panic from inflation which plagued the next president
What did the Abolition Movement promote?
End the institution of slavery
These Northern Democrats were thrown in prison for speaking negative about the war.
Copperheads
What ended Reconstruction in the South?
Election of 1876 (Election of Rutherford B. Hayes) and the Compromise of 1877
This government policy aimed to "Kill the Indian, Save the Man"
Dawes Act
This understanding decreased Japanese immigration into the United States.
Gentlemen's Agreement
During early colonialism, an English import that increased comparatively to the colonial import of African slaves
Tobacco
After getting pushed out of Philadelphia, the Continental Army was encamped here and the winter became the low point of the Revolutionary War
Valley Forge
Would only agree to the Constitution if they Bill of Right was added
Anti-Federalists
In which court case did Andrew Jackson ignored John Marshall's ruling and forced Native Americans off their land?
Worcester v. Georgia
The publication of which book helped Northerners understand and sympathize with the problems of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lincoln suspended this Constitutional right to a trial and jury.
Habeas Corpus
Landowners gave farmers a few acres of land, seeds, and tools in return for a cut of the profits
Sharecropping
What did the government ordered the military to kill in order to gain control of the Indians?
Buffalo
What was the primary goal of Political Machines?
Ensure the election of the city boss
As a result of this English policy a desire for self-government developed in the colonies
Salutary Neglect
A Prussian who turned the Continental army from a bunch of 'Country Bumpkins' to soldiers by teaching them how to march and fight.
Friedrich von Steuben
In the rule of Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court was given what power?
Judicial Review
In which treaty did the United States pay $15 million to Mexico for their northern territories and established the border between Texas and Mexico along the Riot Grande River?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Which court case ruled that slaves had no rights and were property
Dred Scott Supreme Court decision
This 3 day battle was one of the only battles that was fought in the North. It became a turning point in the war as the Confederates never had enough supplies or men to push into the North again.
Gettysburg
What two ways did the South restrict African American's 15th Amendment right?
Poll Taxes & Literacy Tests
The government created agricultural schools and colleges through which act?
Morrill Act
Using your political position for your own benefit
Graft
The purpose of this was to restrict colonial trade
Navigation Acts
Provide supplies and reinforcements to the Continental Army at Valley Forge
Marquis de Lafayette
Loose interpretation of the Constitution - just because it doesn't grant the federal government that power doesn't mean they can't do it (Elastic Clause)
Federalist
Which compromise admitted California as a free state, banned slave teade in Washington D.C., and passed the Fugitive Slave Act?
Compromise of 1850
His attempted slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry increased tensions between the North and the South
John Brown
This official announcement made by Lincoln said that all individuals enslaved in rebelling states were now free
Emancipation Proclamation
Northerners who moved to the South at the end of the war.
Carpetbaggers
What closed the open range?
Barbed wire
The main goal of this movement was to assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture
Americanization Movement