Unit 1 & 2
Colonial America & Build Up to Revolution
Colonial America & Build Up to Revolution
Series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
The author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine
This political group was created in opposition of Andrew Jackson.
What is the Whig Party?
The group of people who society deemed should stay in the private sphere, but made waves in the public sphere with the use of Reform Movements (Temperance, Abolition, etc.)
This amendment protected newly freed slaves by granting them citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is the Seven Years' War?
He served as the country's 4th Chief Justice for the Supreme Court and was the key figure that established Judicial Review (claiming equal status with Congress/Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch)
Who is John Marshall?
This is the supreme court case that Andrew Jackson refused to follow and continued with the forced removal.
What is Worcester v. Georgia
These abolitionists and women's rights activists grew up in the South in a wealthy, slave-holding family.
Who are Sarah and Angelina Grimke?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A phrase that is associated with John Winthrop's sermon "A Model of Christian Charity," where Winthrop warned the Puritan colonists of New England who were to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony that their new community would be this.
1st constitution of the United States; established a weak central government after the U.S. declared independence from Great Britain.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This system centralized the process of textile manufacturing under one roof, creating the modern American factory.
What is the Waltham-Lowell System?
This emphasized domesticity, piety, purity, and submissiveness as the attributes of a true woman. (Must be the correct term)
This amendment gave male citizens the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
An religious event that led to an advancement of the idea of individualism and a willingness to challenge authority.
What is the Great Awakening?
The main disagreement between these two groups is whether the country would operate under a strong central government or as a loose association of separate states.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
This led to the belief that white men, regardless of property ownership, should have political power and a voice in the government
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
This agreement addressed the crisis over balance between northern and southern states but highlighted the nation's sectional divide.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Supreme Court case ruled that the Missouri Compromise violated the 5th Amendment, which guaranteed the property of rights of all citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Three causes of the American Revolution. (Must list and explain)
Answers may vary (Up to Ms. O'Roark)
An event led by a veteran; they demanded debt relief, lower taxes, and protections against property seizures.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
A period in antebellum America that encompassed the industrial and transportation revolutions, the change from subsistence farming to large-scale cash farming, regional specialization, immigration, western-movement, and growth of cities
What is the Market Revolution
This act of violence in Congress symbolized rising sectional tensions
What is the Brooks-Sumner Affair?
One Advantage the Union had and one Advantage the Confederacy had at the start of the Civil War. (Must list and explain)
Answers may vary.
Union - AD: Had more resources, more money, more railways and a bigger population. DIS: Didn't have a solid general to lead the army, was on the offensive which is a harder position to have.
Confederacy: AD: Strong military tradition, smart generals, Homefield advantage, just had to play defense. DIS: Less population, less resources, only big crop is cotton - not food but can sell for resources.