UNIT 1
DEFINE "salutary neglect"
a British policy in the 17th and 18th centuries that allowed the American colonies considerable freedom to govern themselves and operate economically with minimal interference from Britain.
To what extent does George Washington deserve blame for the Seven Years' War?
Washington shot the first shot on the French at Fort Necessity (an act of war) and kills. Washington saw them as intruders on his land.
Identify the most significant change in American social, economic, and political life after the American Revolution.
Political: Colonies to Country
Social: Subject to Citizen
Economic: Mercantilism to Free Market
Analyze the extent to which social, economic, and political opportunities opened for women in the Antebellum Era.
To very little extent were the women changed in the Antebellum Era because, a majority of women were still in the Cult of Domesticity. The women that were changed were exceptions.
List the "Immortal Trio" and their nicknames
John C Calhoun: "the Great Nullifier" SECTIONALISM
Daniel Webster: NATIONALISM (doesn't have a nickname)
Name 3 exports from the New world to the Old world and 3 from the Old world to the New world
For the Columbian Exchange
New to Old: gold, sliver, corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate, Syphilis
Old to New: wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, smallpox, bubonic, typhus, measles, influenza, diphtheria, scarlet fever
What percent of churchmen were in America around 1700-1775? And what percent of farmers?
Churchmen: 74%
Farmers: 90%
List the compromises to the following arguments:
1) Representation
2) Slaves, people or property?
3) State or National sovereignty?
1) bicameral legislature: House of Representatives (VA plan) and Senate (NJ plan)
2) 3/5 Compromise: every slave would count as 3/5 of a person
3) Federalism: shared
*no one was completely happy*
DEFINE Ferment
a situation in which there is much excitement and confusion caused by change
Describe the impact of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on sectionalist United States of America.
North: outraged of the treatment of slaves in the south, it becomes personal and they want to act
South: outraged because the writer had never been to the south before and they argued she didn't know what slave life was like
Distinguish the 1st Continental Congress from the 2nd Continental Congress
First: based on reconciliation, 12 of 13 colonies showed to the meeting in Philadelphia (Georgia missing), in response to GB's Intolerable Acts, they came up with: boycott of British goods and message to the King about the acts
Second: in response to the actions at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, all 13 colonies, they came up with: The Declaration of Independence, the Continental Army, model treaty, and Articles of Confederation
What was the turning point of the American Revolution?
Battle of Saratoga
Compare and Contrast Shays Rebellion and Whiskey Rebellion.
Shays' Rebellion was a protest against state taxes that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, while the Whiskey Rebellion was a protest against a federal tax that demonstrated the strength of the new U.S. government under the Constitution.
Evaluate the effectiveness of African-American slave efforts to both resist and endure life wi8thin the Southern slave institution.
There was very little effectiveness shown, by the slave resistance. Whether it was a mass slave rebellion. such as Nat Turner's Rebellion or slowing down the work on the plantation. The slaves produced so much for the Southern planters that they can't afford to lose them.
The Dred Scott decision decides:
slavery is legal, Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional, and 5th amendment
*not a citizen just property*
Distinguish John Smith, John Rolfe, and John Winthrop
Smith: Jamestown, married Pocahontas
Rolfe: young adventurer
John Winthrop: "City on a Hill" Puritan civilization
What factor-individual, process, or event- was most pivotal to helping America win independence?
Franco-American Alliance
DEFINE the Monroe Doctrine
declaring the United States neighborhood being the western hemisphere, a message to foreign nations
1)non-colonization
2)nonintervention
List the transcendentalist ideals
-self reliance
-reject of authority(hostility)
-stiff back individualism
-suspect of conventical wisdom
-romantic belief in the dignity of individual-> REFORM
Compare and Contrast the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
The MO Compromise was an easy fix and Manifest Destiny was at an all time high. Sectionalism was low. Compromise of 1850 sectionalism made it difficult to pass and it wasn't a true compromise
What are some "seeds of democracy" that we see planted around 1600-1692?
House of Burgees: 1st self governing colony
Fundamental Orders: constitution starting point
When does America turn revolutionary?
Post Boston Massacre or Proclamation of 1763
Analyze the Election of 1832. Why did the Bank War help Andrew Jackson win?
The Bank War helped Andrew Jackson by killing the bank, he sided with the common man.
Key points of the 2nd Great Awakening
-dynamic precedes use EMOTION to push personal conversation
-camp meetings attract common
-feminism fires up
How did the Industrial Revolution impact the
peculiar institution of slavery?
It made Cotton King--> institution of slavery necessary