Government
What is the Declaration of Independence?
July 4, 1776/Thomas Jefferson/Declare their independence
What is the Ohio Valley?
The French and Indian War
Who is the first president that represents the common man?
Andrew Jackson/Came up with Indian Removal Act/anti-national bank, abomination tariff
What is compromise that a slave was considered 3/5 of a person?
3/5 Compromise/for the purpose of apportioning taxes and representation
What is the Power in a republic?
Power flowed from the people themselves
What was the first 10 amendments insisted by anti-fed, states, and individual rights
Bill of Rights
What supported the South and West?
The War of 1812
Who is the "Father of the Factory System" who put into operation in 1791 the first efficient American Machinery for spinning cotton thread?
Samuel Slater
What is giving states a proportional representation in the House and equal representation in the Senate.
The Great Compromise/giving large states and small state 2 house legislature
What is the excise tax on Whiskey?
The Whiskey Rebellion
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Five Native American tribes are forced to move to Oklahoma
What was the peaceful change of government leadership from Adams to Jefferson?
Revolution of 1800
Who was a Federalist, that was a Powerful Supreme Court Justice (4th), ruling strengthens in the Constitution?
John Marshall
Why did the federalists move to limit the criticism of the government by immigrants? They limited their freedom of speech and freedom of press.
Alien and Sedition Act
What What is early self government?
Town meetings, Europeans/no high class, committee of Corresponding
What is the Missouri Compromise?
They forbid New Territories North of a negotiated line.
What is the victory of American forces against the British/Restoring American confidence and fueling an outpouring of Nationalism?
Battle Of New Orleans/Final Battle of the War of 1812
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Author was Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is a Religious Revival? Held camp meetings
Second Great Awakening
What was the issue with the Monroe Doctrine?
It did not have authority to say that the Europeans couldn't settle
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
America secured the western half of the richest river valley in the world
What is uprising of backcountry farmers were Revolutionary war veterans were losing their farms through mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies? (Led by Daniel Shay)
Shay's Rebellion
Who wrote Common Sense?
Written by Thomas Paine called for a new kind of political society, specifically a republic, where power flowed from the people themselves.
What warned European nations from colonizing Latin America?
Monroe Doctrine/Delivered by President James Monroe
What is Impressment?
Act of forcibly drafting an individual into military service, employed by the British navy against American seaman times of War against France