American and National Identity
Many Anti Federalists distrusted Alexander Hamilton because his financial and economic models were based off of this country’s structures.
Who is Great Britain?
The main reason the Scots-Irish immigrated to America in the 19th century.
What is the Great Famine of 1845-1850?
This hate group consisting of primarily white farmers living on the border of colonies massacred Native Americans despite the tribe of the Indian, seeing every Indian as a common enemy.
Who are the Paxton Boys?
The belief that foreign nations, especially Europe, must not further colonize in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This notion most famously urged by Ralph Waldo Emerson approached religion as a less formal and more personal idea where one focuses on their own “experience of life” rather than theological precedents.
What is Transcendentalism?
This notion claimed that women should be educated for the sake of teaching their sons.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This land arrangement permitted by King George III forbade further white settlement westward of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The seemingly impossible innovation that made upstate New Yorkers have access to a wide range of perishable items such as fish. Throughout America, it allowed for the quick transportation of goods and news.
What is the Erie Canal?
The deed the British consistently carried out that angered Americans and eventually caused the War of 1812.
What is the British oppressment of American ships?
In the Second Great Awakening, these social reforms occurred (Name at least two).
What is the prison reform/mental insulation reform/abolition movement growing/women’s role as religious leaders?
The amendment that prohibited further settlements in the land America received from the Mexican Cession.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The reasons President Polk wanted to annex California. (Name at least two)
What are the deep harbors/contact with Asian nations/avoiding Russian settlements?
The reason for Mexicans in California during the Gold Rush having their territory taken away.
What is the US Land Commisions requiring full documentation of the property?
The first portion of this act made foreigner suffrage difficult, and the second segment of this act made it illegal to criticize the president.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The bread riot with over a thousand women in the Confederate Nation was due to this factor.
What is the South causing inflation?
The Republican Party that was established for the sole purpose of abolition reforms, grew to be known for these political objectives as well. (Name at least two)
What are increased tariffs/homestead bills for enriching small farms/land grants/Transcontinental railroad?
In this journey, Puritans moved their colony to Salem, financially supported through the investment group known as the Massachusetts Bay Company.
What is the Great Migration?
This treaty, following the Battle of Fallen Timbers, forced Native Americans to ceded their land to the United States in 1795.
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
The causes of the financial panic of 1837.
What are the Specie Circular, Jackson’s destruction of the Second National Bank, Jackson’s paying off of the national debt?
The era in the 1600s that reflects an emphasis on reason over religion that would eventually spark an re-emphasis on religion in the 1700s known as the First Great Awakening.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
In this novel, Thomas Paine urges colonists monarchy is evil and the colonies must seek independence from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This law enacted in 1787 briefly made slavery illegal in the Northern states, granted money towards public school education, protected native lands (failing to do so), and promoted the sale of government-owned land.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
The treaty between the US and Spain that gave America territory in Oregon as well as Florida in exchange for the US not taking Texas and being behind the Sabine River. Despite this treaty, the US still moved into Texas.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
In this verdict, Britain prohibited slavery despite the newfound success of slavery in its American colonies.
What is the Somerset Decision?
The industry that was recognized as the first for giving black and white men equal pay. This business was extremely popular during the era of the Gold Rush.
What is the whaling industry?