American Revolution
What was Britain's policy of leaving the colonists be called?
salutary neglect
Who thought the country should be based on small scale farming? Jefferson or Hamilton
Jefferson
What is the idea that American settlers were destined by God to spread American ideas across the continent?
Manifest Destiny
What kind of state was North Carolina in the Civil War?
Upper South
This Reconstruction Plan wanted to make it harder for southern states to rejoin the Union, protect newly freed slaves and give them access to jobs and land
Radical Reconstruction
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
Weak national government, every state for itself. "League of friendship"
What were the names of the first 2 parties in America. Hint: Washington and Adams were on one side, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison on the other.
The Federalists and the Democratic Republicans
What act forced Indian tribes to relocate west of the Mississippi River and resulted in the Trail of Tears.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
List 2 advantages the Union had over the Confederacy during the Civil War
More farms, railroads, population, factories
This is the cycle that freed slaves were forced into, where they worked on land owned by someone else and had to pay a large portion of the money they earned from the crops.
What is the name of the compromise that gave America 2 houses in Congress. 1 based on population, 1 with equal representation for each state.
The Great Compromise
In the War of ________, America defeated the British and Andrew Jackson became famous for his victory in New Orleans
1812
What did America get from winning the Spanish American War?
Land in the Southwest and in Texas down to the Rio Grande
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed all slaves in southern states.
List 2 goals of Reconstruction
Rebuild to South, End slavery and protect freed slaves, Create a way for southern states to rejoin the Union
List 3 events/laws that led up to the Revolutionary War
Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre
What did America get as a result of the Louisiana Purchase?
A ton of resource-rich land west of the Mississippi, which doubled the size of the US
What agreement allowed slavery in the West above a certain line, made Missouri and slave state, and Maine a free state?
The Missouri Compromise
This battle was the deadliest, as well as the turning point, of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
List 2 positive effects of reconstruction for Black Americans (besides freedom)
the first black politicians were elected, literacy and education increased, black americans could earn their own money
List 3 advantages/strengths the colonists had over the British in the Revolutionary War
List 2 results of the Antebellum Reform Movement.
More people went to church, all states created public school systems, "common" white men got the right to vote
List 3 things Andrew Jackson was known for
Heroics in the War of 1812, Indian Removal Act of 1830, first "common man" president, spoils system, prevented South Carolina from seceding, vetoed Second Bank of the U.S.
List 2 Effects of the Civil War
13th Amendment was passed, South was destroyed, over 600,000 soldiers were dead, a plan was needed to readmit the southern states into the Union
List 2 ways southern whites restricted the rights of newly freed slaves after the Civil War
lynchings, voter intimidation, laws that prevented black americans from getting hired and learning skills