Unit 1
Was an English Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodist and the evangelical movement
What is George Whitfield?
A war that lasted from 1756- 1763 and pitted a coalition of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies
What is the 7 years war?
Marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflects a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction
Name given to ex confederates to northerners who moved to the south during reconstruction for personal opportunities
What are Scalawags and Carpetbaggers?
Custom taxes that governments levy on imported and exported goods
What are tariffs?
A democratic system in which there are some things where the people have no say
What is Limited Democracy?
A loose union in which each state remains its sovereignty, freedom and independence. Each state gets one vote no matter its size, wealth, or population
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The Methodist church used circuit riders to reach people in frontier locations
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Prohibited slavery
Established citizenship on people born in the United States
Forbid states to deny citizens the right to vote
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
People were encouraged to industrialize, lots of growth.
What is industrialization?
English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices
Who were the Puritans?
1.) supported federal union and obscured commitment to a strong national government
2.) feared that state governments would loose power and individual rights. Central government would be run by wealthy men, which they feared
What are federalist/ anti-fedralists?
Created a division at 36 degrees, 30 degrees that slaves were allowed in the south below that point
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution
What are Abolitionists?
New York City population increases by 3 times in 15 years, sanitation is horrible, tenements, leads to disease and disaster.
What is urbanization?
Individualism is growing, beliefs about science, people are studying new things. Seen as liberals.
What is European Enlightenment?
~10 amendments
~safeguard fundamental personal rights and mandates legal procedures
What is the Bill of Rights?
Between America and Britain about land, tariffs, impressment, and natives
What is the War of 1812?
Expressed by the idea that Euro- Americans were fated to settle the North American Contenent cost to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
An economic system in which transactions between private parties are absent of any form of government intervention
What is Laissez- faire Economics?
Whitfield talks about god and how religion is okay, “wakes people/ souls up”. Churches don’t accept Whitfield.
What is the Great Awakwning?
Issues by King George lll following Great Britian’s acquisition of French territory
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Canals and roads linked states, people moved and created a good economy, and it was an industrial society.
What is the Market Revolution?
The 16th President of the United States, who was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Passed in 1862, gaurentees that if you move west and farm for 5 years on 160 acres, you can keep the land.
What is the Homestead Act?