Articles of Confederation
The leaders of the US wanted a strong central government because...
What is they didn't want to have a tyrant like what the British had
The 3/5 compromise
What is a compromise that made slaves count for 3/5 of a person for representation and taxes
XYZ Affair
What is an event where French ministers ask for bribes to talk negotiation and they go by names X, Y & Z
Who wrote The Star Spangled Banner
What is Francis Scott Key
The Indian Removal Act
What is an act in 1830 that removed all Native Americans
The Missouri Compromise, 36'30 line & Oregon Trail
What is a compromise where Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would become a free state
What is a line that caused North to be free state while the South would be slave states
What is a 2000 mile line that extends into Oregon
Sectionalism and its three primary regions?
What is loyalty to a region or state but not to the whole nation, three primary nations were north, south and west
Speech given by Abraham Lincoln to free all slaves
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This white man was a leader of a revolt that went to raid an armory for weapons, he was hanged shortly later
What is John Brown & his raid on Harper Ferry
This convention was intended to revise the AOC but ended up making a new constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention
This weakness of the AOC caused foreign shippers to do this
What is congress couldn't impose taxes, so foreign shippers sent their goods to places that didn't have tariffs
The first president and vice-president of the United States
The first president wanted to be ? with all other European nations
What is George Washington & John Adams
Neutral
Manifest Destiny
What is the idea that it is the divine right for Americans to settle the entire continent from ocean to ocean
Nationalism
What is identification with one’s own nation and supporting its interests
In the Trail of Tears, the US moved around ? people of ? by gunpoint around 800 miles
What is 18,000, Cherokee
The Pacific Railway Act of 1862
What is an act where the US gave out land to railway workers to help complete the project
The reason Irish immigrants left to America
What is a potato famine causing poverty
This person published the Liberator to push for anti-slavery
What is William Garrison Llyod
This person assassinated President Lincoln at the Ford Theater and 12 days later was caught and killed
What is John Wilks Booth
Sharecropping & Black Codes?
What is a legal arrangement where a landowner allows a tenant to use their land in exchange for a share of the crops produced
What is an attempt from southern leaders that would try to put slaves back into slavery
A rebellion caused as a result of ?. The government had no power to fight back.
What is Shay's Rebellion, led by farmer Daniel Shays in 1786-1787, a series of attacks on courthouses as a result of unfair taxes
The Bill of Rights and what it did
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution which prevented taking away rights from citizens
The Alien & Sedition Acts
What is an act that authorized the deporting or detaining of "aliens" if they were deemed dangerous
What is an act that made it illegal to criticize the President or Congress, made Adams unpopular and he wasn't re-elected next term
The War Hawks
What is a group of men from the South and West that pushed for war because they were being attacked and their businesses were hurt
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
What is 13th-abolishing slavery, 14th-grants citizenship to anybody born in America, 15th-gives all men the right to vote
The Homestead Act of 1862
What is an act where any adult US citizen could claim 160 acres of land if they agreed to grow it and not fight against the government
The five primary classes in the South
What is rich planters, small white farmers, landless whites, free African Americans and over 6 million slaves
Fredrick Douglass & Harriet Tubman
What is a former slave who became one of the leaders for abolishing slavery
What is a former slave who led many slave expeditions in her time
Dred Scott vs Sanford case, and the name of the court case that made segregation legal
What is a court case where slave Scott sued his owner for freedom, but the judge ruled that he was property thus could not sue
What is Plessy vs Ferguson
The Whiskey Rebellion
What is a rebellion caused by farmers being forced to pay taxes on whiskey decline, and was put down by the government now that they had power
Three of the powers granted and denied by the AOC to the central government.
Powers granted-Declare war and make peace, establish an army and navy, print and borrow money, make treaties with foreign countries
Powers denied-Couldn't raise funds for an army, couldn't tax, no executive branch to enforce laws, no power to control trade among states
The Federalists supported ?, believed in a power balance between ?, and believed ? was unnecessary
The Anti-federalists supported ?, believed ? should have more power and wanted a ?
What is a strong central government, power balance between state and national governments, thought Bill of Rights was unnecessary
What is a weak central government, states, Bill of Rights
The first Supreme Court Justice in 1801 appointed by John Adams who staid for 34 years
What is John Marshall
Monroe Doctrine
US threatens and bans Europeans from colonizing in the US and agrees to stay neutral if so
Lincoln's Plan
What is a plan where 10% of people would have to sign a loyalty oath, slavery is banned and amnesty (forgiveness) to all except the leaders of the Confederacy
The Gadsen Purchase
What is a purchase where the US gained parts of the US and New Mexico for $10 million
The Cotton Gin was invented by ?, changed ?, and caused ?
What is Eli Whitney, the process of harvesting cotton, increased slave counts
The anti-immigrant movement, what caused it, and who caused it and their party
The four primary causes of the Civil War
What is state rights, slavery, tariffs & sectionalism
Sojourner Truth
What is a former slave who traveled and preached women's rights and of ending slavey
Two accomplishments of the AOC were...
What is negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1783 & established the Northwest Ordinance which allowed for new states to join and be on equal footing with other states
All three branches of the government and how long they serve for
What is the legislative branch, senators serve for 6 years while reps serve for 2 years, they make laws
What is the executive branch, president & vice-president serve for 4 years
What is the judicial branch, judges serve for life unless impeached
Marbury vs Madison
What is the case that created Judicial Review, which allowed the courts to determine the constitutionality of laws
The war of 1812 was between ? and was caused by ?, ? and ?
What is US and England, restrictions on American trade, impressment of US sailors that were forced into the navy, Britain inciting Indians to attack on the western frontier
In the Louisiana Purchase, the US originally wanted the port of ? but then ? negotiated with Napoleon for the land west of Mississippi River and they got ? square miles west for ? dollars because ?
What is New Orleans, James Monroe, 828k, 15 million, they needed money because France was at war
Compromise of 1850
What is a compromise where California would become a free state and slave trade would have to end in Washington DC in exchange for a stronger Fugitive Slave Act
Give a short description of each main region
North-richest region with factories, banks & merchants
South-mostly rural, least industrious and educated
West-most democratic, seen as an opportunity for the common man
All three reform movements
Temperance movement-bans hard liquor because they linked alcohol abuse to poverty, abuse and crime
Prism reform-wanted to have children or mentally handicapped people placed in juvenile facilities and mental institutions
Education Reform-wanted every child to have a chance for a quality education nor matter their wealth
The two main objectives for the North and South to win
North-What is the Anaconda Plan, where they'd take control of the Mississippi River and attack the capital of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia
South-Keep the war in South and draw it out as long as possible
The Great Compromise
What is a hybrid of both New Jersey's and Virginia's plans, a bicameral legislature with the representatives in the House of Representatives being based on population and the senate having equal representation for all states