New & Old Worlds Collide & Colonial Period
This was the downside to the Columbian Exchange for natives of the Americas
Small Pox and other diseases
Salutary Neglect ended in the 1750s due to this act which controlled colonial trade
to keep Federalists in power in the federal government
54'40' or Fight! was the campaign slogan of
James K. Polk
At the start of the civil war Lincoln's reason for fighting was ___, by the end of the war he added this goal ___.
preserve the union
ending slavery
the key difference in the society of the Northern and Southern colonies in the 1600s was
religion - Puritans in the North and Anglicans in the South (less active)
This agreement created a bicameral legislator - 2 senators per state and HOR by population
The Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise
to generate a domestic economy based on a National Bank, Internal improvements and a Tariff
During the 1840s and 1850s the largest group of migrants moving west, beyond the Mississippi River went to
Oregon Territory
The Northern Plan to defeat the South in the Civil war was ___ and the Northern General who accomplished it was ____. (2)
The Anaconda Plan
Ulysses S. Grant
The Mayflower Compact
In George Washington's Farewell address he warns of 2 problems for the future U.S., name them
political parties and foreign alliances
How did the Missouri Compromise settle the issue of the expansion of slavery
It balanced the power of slave to non-slave states in the Senate with the addition of Maine and Missouri and prevented slavery north of the Mason-Dixon (36' 30')
1850s belief that the people living within a state could determine its slave status
popular sovereignty
Carpetbaggers
Bacon's Rebellion
What was the purpose of the Albany Plan of Union
to unify the colonials with the British against the French and Indians
The nullification crisis in 1828 was over
South Carolina's unwillingness to accept the Tariff of Abominations
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
the 3 amendments and what each does, that were to correct the wrongs of slavery, added to the Constitution during Reconstruction
13th - ends slavery
14th - citizens are born in the U.S.
15th - voting rights for all male citizens over 21
Johnathan Edwards
George Whitfield
spark the fear of damnation and an emotional attachment to the church
This was the first attempt by states to nullify a federal law (HINT: Alien and Sedition)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
In his book On Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau wrote of his opposition to ____ based on this belief.
the Mexican-American War (draft - he opposed the laws he didn't agree with)
Transcendentalism
The court case that ended the Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott v. Sanford
At the end of Reconstruction, what agreement ended African American equality in the South and what system has replaced the plantation?
The Compromise of 1877
Sharecropping