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Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
Who are the most popular European philosophers?
Adopted in 1791, with the help of James Madison, and included the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights
A new form of communication, sending electrical signals through wires. The news could travel faster than ever before
What is the telegraph?
The Most famous conductor of the underground railroad.
Who was Harriot Tubman?
They came to the United States seeking political and religious freedom and greater economic opportunities than could be found in Europe.
What are German Immigrants?
An agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution
What is the Article of Confederation?
1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
Roads, Canals, and Railroads
What were some new ways transportation was increased?
More Southern states began to grow it as it got more popular. Due to the higher demand, the need for more workers also rose, increasing the number of slaves sold between the Southern states.
What is Cotton?
Resulted from a five-year blight that turned potato crops black. Between 1845 and 1850, one million Irish died of starvation and another two million fled the country.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
A populace that is required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government's policies. The term has its origin in a slogan of the American colonials against their British rulers
What is Taxation without Representation
Law that would set the number of justices on the Supreme Court as well establish the district and appellate courts
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
Because of ....... In the early 1800s began drawing white Northeastern women out of the home and into the factory and schoolhouse. Particularly notable were the women who worked at the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts.
First women's rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in New York, the meeting launched the women's suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote.
What is the Senca Falls Movement?
Stated that North and South America were no longer open to colonization. It also declared that the United States would not allow European countries to interfere with independent governments in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
These ideas included individual rights, republicanism, democracy, the separation of powers, equality, a distrust of aristocracy, and an emphasis on science over religion.
What are the philosophical foundations of the American Revolution?
Imposing high tariffs on imported goods, paying back all remaining state debts, creation of a national bank
What is Hamiltons Financial Plan?
Increased production by making it easier for farms to separate cotton fibers from their seeds.
What was the cotton gin?
Organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
What was the Temperance Movement?
Brought together smaller southern planters, urban workers, artisans, immigrants, and Catholics. Its members saw themselves as the honest workers and producers of the country and were suspicious of bankers, merchants, and other monied interests
What is the Democratic Party?
With the exception of ......., every US president until 1824 was an elite slaveholder from Virginia.
Who is John Adams?
This act prevented immigrants from naturalization and restricted free speech. This was seen as a political attack on Jeffersonians.
What was the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798?
Besides economic growth, what lasting effect did railroads have?
What contributed to westward expansion and western population growth?
Doubled the size of the United States, reshaping the environmental and economic makeup of the country
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Lasted from June 18, 1812 to February 18, 1815, was fought over issues that continued to plague relations between the United States and Britain after the Revolutionary War, like impressment of American sailors and trade restrictions on American shipping.
What Is the War of 1812?