Colonial America
What is a a revolution?
What year did the California Gold Rush start?
1848
Claim - Evidence - Reasoning
What does EMANCIPATION mean?
It is the act of setting someone free.
What is an AMENDMENT?
It is a change to the Constitution.
What is a colony?
It is a city or area under control of another country, and occupied by settlers of that country.
What was the main way to get West at the beginning of Westward Expansion?
By wagon - the Oregon Trail
Provide one example of:
1. a primary source
2. a secondary source
1. diary, picture, etc.
2. textbook, your papers, etc.
Name the 4 leaders (military and government) of the North and South during the Civil War.
South - Davis & Lee
What is SEGREGATION and provide one example of it from images you have seen in class.
It is the forced separation of different racial groups.
- water fountains
- restaurants with signs for different entrances
1. Any of the 3 Gs (Gold, God, Glory)
2. Freedom
3. They had no choice
4. Economic opportunities
What were the years of the Mexican American War?
1846-1848
What does CHRONOLOGICAL mean?
Starting with the earliest, then following in order in which they occurred.
What was the Underground Railroad?
A network of secret routes and safe houses used to by African Americans to get out of the South, get to the free states, and escape slavery.
What were Jim Crow laws? Provide one example that you can remember from class.
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation and put up barriers (political, economic, social, and legal) for African Americans
What were the 3 groups of colonies and what is one colony in each group?
1. New England Colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut)
2. Middle Colonies (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware)
3. Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia)
What is Manifest Destiny?
The idea that the U.S. is destined, by God, to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire American continent.
What does JUSTIFIED mean?
It means it was done so for a good reason.
Having good and fair reason for doing something.
What were 2 legal effects of the Dred Scott Court Case?
1. African Americans could not be citizens
2. Slavery could spread to all of the territories throughout the U.S.
Who was Jim Crow?
A theatrical character, stereotyping and insulting African Americans and their culture
What was the first permanent settlement in America and what year was it established?
Jamestown, 1607
What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do for the United States?
1. Recognized the Rio Grande as America's southern boarder.
2. Added an additional 525,000 square miles to U.S. territory.
It is a social studies skill that asks you to locate a document in time and place and to understand how theses factors shape what is in it.
What were the 4 main causes of the Civil War and what do they mean?
1. Sectionalism (people only care about their section of land)
2. Lincoln's Election (Lincoln was elected and the South did notttttt want that)
3. State's Rights (states should have more power than the national government)
4. Slavery
What are the 3 goals of Reconstruction?
1. Reunite the North and South
2. Repair destruction caused by the Civil War
3. Bring African Americans into full citizenship and equality