Period 1-2
What did Christopher Columbus find?
The Americas (a new world)
What were the presidents (1754-1800)
George Washington (1789-1797), 2 terms, no party
John Adams (1797-1801), 1 term, Federalist party
Name 3 president during this period (1801-1837)
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), 2 terms, DR
James Madison (1809-1817), 2 terms, DR
James Monroe (1817-1825), 2 terms, DR
John Q. Adams (1825-1829), 1 term, Whig
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), 2 terms, D
What was the New Deal, and who made it?
- A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was regarded as the worst president?
-James Buchanan
What was the Columbian exchange and were they positive effects or negatives?
The exchange of ideas, agriculture, technology, disease, etc from Europe to the New World and back.
They had both positive and negative effects.
What was the Embargo Act?
-The United States Congress enacted a general trade embargo on all foreign nations
- As a successor or replacement law for the 1806 Non-importation Act and passed as the Napoleonic Wars continued, it represented an escalation of attempts to persuade Britain to stop any impressment of American sailors and to respect American sovereignty and neutrality but also attempted to pressure France and other nations in the pursuit of general diplomatic and economic leverage
What was Manifest Destiny?
- Manifest Destiny stated that it was the US's right to expand west based on God.
What was the Red Scare?
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.
What were the original 13 colonies? (name 7)
-New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Delaware, South Carolina, and New Hampshire
What was Bacon's rebellion?
-A rebellion against Berkeley's government
-Series of raids and massacres against American Indian villages on the Virginia frontier
- Bacon succeeded and burned down Jamestown
-2 lasting problems: Sharp class differences and colonial resistance to royal control; these problems would continue into the next century
what was the mayflower compact?
The first governing document of the Plymouth colony. Drafted by the pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower, seeking religious freedom. It was signed on Nov 11, 1620
What was the cause of the War of 1812?
-British impressment of sailors
-British seizures of neutral American trading ships
-War hawks
What was the Brown v. Board of education in Topeka?
-Landmark case that ruled that "separate but equal" was inherently unequal.
Who were the Sons of Liberty exactly?
-A group of colonists who lived in Colonial America and were unhappy with the practices of the British Crown -
-Formed to defend the colonists from further injustices at the hands of Great Britain and to combat any further taxation they deemed unfair
-Represent one of the most pivotal groups in carrying out the Revolution
Note: the people mentioned were Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Patrick Henry
What happened during King Philip's war?
-United tribes in Southern New England against English settlers who were constantly encroaching on American Indians' lands
-A vicious war, thousands killed, villages and towns were burned
-The colonial forces prevailed, killing King Philip and ending most American Indian resistance in New England
What was Washington's farewell address in 1796?
- Warned against permanent foreign alliances, political parties, and geographic sectionalism; called for unity of the country
What was the corrupt bargain of 1824?
-John Q. Adams got elected over the rival Andrew Jackson
-It was widely believed that Clay the speaker of the house convinced congress to elect Adam who than made Clay his secretary of state which is why it was denounced (corrupt bargain)
What was the square deal?
- the Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
What was the Committee of Correspondence, and their significant role?
It was an organized local letter-writing campaign to fortify colonial resistance to British policies.
What was the Great Awakening? What was the Enlightenment?
-A movement characterized by fervent expressions of religious feeling among masses of people
-In the 18th century, some educated Americans felt attracted to a European literature and philosophy movement known as the Enlightenment. The leaders of this movement believed that the "darkness" of past ages could be corrected by using human reason to solve most of humanity's problems. government) is supreme, it is bound to follow "natural laws" based on the rights Locke, in his Two Treatises of Government, reasoned that the state is simply because they are human.
What was the Powhatan Confederacy?
A group of 7 Indian tribes that controlled Virginia. They also allowed the original English settlers to survive.
What was the Mexican American War?
A war that was fought between America and Mexico, where America won of and helped create a sense of expanding the idea of Mani\fest Destiny
What was the Platt Amendment in 1901
- This amendment to the new Cuban constitution authorized U.S. intervention in Cuba to protect its interests. Cuba pledged not to make treates with other countries that might compromise its independence, and it granted naval bases to the United States
What was the Encomienda system?
-During the 16th century, the Spanish government established the encomienda system in the Americas to divide the American Indian labor force
-Under this system, a Spanish conquistador, or another male Spaniard of significant social status was given the labor of several Native Americans living in the area
-provided the laborers protection from other tribes, and education in Catholicism. The native laborer paid tributes to the encomendero in the form of gold, other metals, or agricultural products