Lesson 4
What was the Great Awakening?
A religious revival in the 18th century American Colonies
Explain the purpose of the Declaration of Independence
For British Colonies to declare their independence from Great Britain with reasons for this departure.
what is ratification?
the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
which president approved the Indian Removal Act?
President Andrew Jackson
What practice created a sectional divide between Northern and Southern States?
slavery
What does emancipatin mean?
freeing people from enslavement
How did indigenous people suffer from colonization?
- loss of land
- colonist control of resources
- wars and unfair treaties
Why were British Colonist unhappy?
- Boston tea party
- The Stamp Act
- The Intolerable Acts (laws passed after the Boston Tea Party)
Two key ideas fro mthe Constituion
- separation of powers
-checks and balances
Which new inventions increased production in the new developing nation most from 1790- 1830
- John Deere's steel tipped plow
- Eli Whitney's cotton gin
What was the significance of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska act?
- both failed to permanently resolve the issue of slavery and escalated political tension between North and South
What is the bloodiest day in American history?
Battle of Antietam 23,000 soliders killed wounded or missing
Why was the Zeniger trial important?
It supported freedom of the press
How did the colonist resist British Authority?
- protest of Townshend Acts
- boycott of British
- committees of correspondence
What event highlighted why the Articles of Confederation had a weak central government?
Shay's rebellion
- further expansion of the United States territory west
- common belief at the time to be a God given right of American's to expand into western territory
Which event led many southern states to secede from the Union?
The Election of 1860 and Mr. Lincoln
What is the most notable point of the Gettysburg address?
Lincoln claimed the war was an effort to preserve the union and "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"