Unit 1
Although Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were founded for religious purposes, most settlers came to the New world for this reason.
To get land or improve their economic and social standing.
Western expansion strengthened which party?
The Democratic party.
The annexation of Texas was delayed for how long?
Almost a decade.
Which group of people were dependent on Buffalo and could no longer sustain themselves after railroads encouraged killing them?
Plain Indians.
A two-party system developed because of political differences between which two people?
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
In New England, the Mayflower Compact was an early example of what?
The principle that government derives its authority from the people.
What is the Manifest Destiny?
The belief that Americans had a God-given right to all the land of the North American continent.
The South depended on what crop?
King Cotton.
Although high tariffs protected the jobs of workers, protective tariffs did not support the interests of who?
Consumers.
What are Muckrakers?
They investigated the corporations and conditions of the times.
The declaration is based on the ideas of who?
John Locke
What was Henry Clay's alliance system?
A political alliance that traded western support for the tariff for northern support of internal improvements and cheap land.
The 14th amendment overturned which decision?
The Dred Scott decision.
Which two things lowered the prices of goods?
Deflation and mass production.
Federalist John Marshall was appointed by who?
Federalist President John Adams.
What is a Confederation Government?
A confederacy is a loose relationship among a number of smaller political units.The vast majority of political power rests with the local governments;the central federal government has very little power.
The culture of the South was influenced by what two things?
Its colonial beginnings and its economy
Ku Klux Klan.
They feared for their jobs and did not support the inflationary monetary policy of free silver / bimetallism that would raise the price of food.
The West developed as settlers moved into the region and carried what with them?
Their cultural values.
Checks and balances ensured what?
Checks and balances further ensured that the power of each branch was limited by a competing power in another branch.
The fundamental principle of democracy is that the government derives its power from the consent of what?
Of the governed.
Who lost their job as a teacher after writing a editorial on the segregated schools in Memphis?
Most immigrants came from where in the late 19th century?
Southern and Eastern Europe.
The introduction of the Bessemer process and astute business practices prompted the ascendancy of who?
Andrew Carnegie.