American and National Identity
How did America's land acquisition relate to national identity?
Expanding and exploring the frontier is a foundational part of American identity. We must continue pushing forward because it makes us American.
Delegates from 9 colonies convened to petition Britain about the namesake act in this event.
Stamp Act Congress
This rebellion was led by a group of angry farmers in Massachusetts fed up with economic suffering and desiring to get their compensation from fighting in the Revolutionary War. This rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Shay's Rebellion
This event describes the process through which the US economy transitioned from primarily an agriculutral, subsistence based economy to an industrial, commercial economy
Market Revolution
This man, nicknamed Old Hickory, crafted his political campaign to appeal to the common man.
Andrew Jackson
What ideals was the Declaration of Independence founded on?
natural rights (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), the Social Contract
True or Flase: Delegates at the First Continental Congress were calling for independence from Britain.
False, delegates just wanted their rights as British citizens to be honored and were not yet calling for complete independence.
Resistance to slavery is classified into these two forms:
Covert and Overt Resistance
What is this process in which people rapidly migrate to cities? It was prominent in the era of the Market Revolution.
Urbanization
This court case during the Jeffersonian Era established the principal of judicial review.
Marbury v Madison
How did America shape its government to give the federal government enough power to run the country while not reaching authoritarian status?
Checks and balances system, balance of powers, Bill of Rights
After Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, they passed this act which allowed Parliament to pass legislation over the colonies "in all cases whatsover."
Declaratory Act
This rebellion was a result of a tax placed by Hamilton to raise federal revenue. Western farmers broke out inn rebellion in 1791, but they were quelled by federal forces.
Whiskey Rebellion
Which man created interchangeable parts, which revolutionized production?
Eli Whitney
Federalists and Democratic Republicans heavily debated over this Constitutional clause dictating implied powers.
Necessary and Proper Clause/Elastic Clause
A little throwback but still relevant: How did regional identities begin to differ while constructing a national identity?
Environmental factors played a huge role with each region specializing in its own goods. (South-cotton, Carolinas and Chesapeake-rice and indigo, Middle Colonies-breadbasket colonies, North-shipbuilding and lumber)
America began to build a national identity around the principles in the Declaration of Independence
These undercover systems in the colonies helped to organize boycotts, unfiied resistance to British policies, and spread information rapidly.
Committees of Correspondence
Texas, it gained its independence from Mexico years earlier under the leadership of Sam Houston in 1836.
Which man defected from Britain, bringing factory floor plans to make the first textile factory in America?
Samuel Slater
The problem of limited suffrage was magnified in this early 19th century economic crisis caused by irresponsible practices of the Second Bank of the United States.
Panic of 1819
How did America begin to form its own identity in the period 1754-1800 separate from Britain?
Defined by the concept of liberty:
abolished aristocracy, religious toleration, distinct American culture in the arts
King George III appointed this man as Britain's prime minister to make a plan to reassert control over the colonies.
George Grenville
Plan consisted of:
1. Enforcing Existing Laws that were regularly ignored on account of salutary neglect (Navigation Acts)
2. Wartime policies remained after war was over (Quartering Acts)
3. Parliament enacted new taxes to help pay Britain's war debt
This namesake of this rebellion was found in a hole 6 weeks later while evading capture. Southern planters were fearful of slave uprisings following this event and imposed stricter slave codes.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This act prior to the height of the Market Revolution replaced the Embargo Act and cut off trade with Great Britain and France only in response to them not respecting US neutrality in the War of 1812.
Non Intercourse Act (1809)
This court case established the supremacy of federal laws over state laws in which a state attempted to tax the National Bank.
McCulloch v Maryland