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1st Representative Legislature and the Colonies
Virginia House of Burgesses
Last battle of the Revolutionary War
Yorktown
Group that Supported the Ratification of the Constitution
Federalists
Biggest problem President Washington had when he took office as the 1st President of the United States
The country was in debt from the Revolutionary War
During Jackson's presidency suffrage was expanded to........
white males who did not own land
Industrial Revolution
1820 Compromise to end the arguing between the North and South over Slavery.
Missouri would enter the Union as Slave State, Maine would enter as a Free State.
Slavery would not be allowed in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36-30 line
Missouri Compromise
Religious movement that inspired people to become better Christians.
Led to the rise of the Abolitionist movement and social reform
Second Great Awakening
Sectionalism
Newly formed county by the Seceding states
-Elected Jefferson Davis as President
Confederate States of America
1st Written Constitution in the colonies
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Leader of the Colonial Navy
John Paul Jones
Group that would only ratify the Constitution if it included a Bill of Rights
Anti-Federalists
2 things that Washington warned against when he left office
1. Permanent foreign alliances
2. Political Parties
South Carolina disagreed with the Tariff of 1828 calling it the....
Tariff of Abominations
Most of the factories were built in the __________ because there were plenty of fast moving rivers to power the factories
North
Belief that America should own ALL land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
Leader of prison reform and reform for the treatment of the mentally ill
Dorthea Dix
California
Beginning of the War
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Social Contract between the Pilgrims which created the 1st self-government in the colonies
Mayflower Compact
Turning Point of the Revolutionary War
Saratoga
Shay's Rebellion
To raise money to get the country out of Debt, Alexander Hamilton who was President Washington's Secretary of the Treasury, passed a Whisky Tax. Farmers protested this tax much like Shay did earlier.......What was Washington's response?
He sent in the U.S. Army to squash the protest.
(Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution gave the government the power to do so)
What was the situation called?
Nullification Crisis
Invention by Eli Whitney to quickly take the seeds out of cotton fiber
Cotton Gin
Doubled the size of the US in 1803
Louisiana Purchase
"Father of American Education"
Horace Mann
To prevent a national crisis, Henry Clay offered this:
-Cali as a Free State
-Fugitive Slave Act that allowed slave hunters to hunt escaped slaves anywhere
Compromise of 1850
Deadliest Battle of the War
Battle of Antietam
A trade in which Raw Material were produced in the Colonies and shipped to England. England would turn those raw materials into manufactured Goods. Slaves from Africa were shipped to the colonies in the New World.
Triangular Trade
Main Author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Great Compromise
The Anti-Federalists became what political party?
Democratic-Republicans
In the Court Case Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia had no right to take the Cherokee lands. What was President Jacksons reaction to this ruling?
He ignored it and forced the Cherokee to move to Oklahoma Territory
Invention that increased the need for Slave labor in the South
Cotton Gin
Gained from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty
Florida
Movement fought to limit the consumption of alcohol
Temperance Movement
Passed in 1854, said that states could decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.
Led to bloodshed in Kansas
Kansas/Nebraska Act
1st Turning point Battle of the Civil War
2nd Turning point Battle of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
1st English Colony in the New World
Jamestown, Virginia
1st Battle of the Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord
Popular Sovereignty, Federalism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Republicanism, Limited Government
Principles of the Constitution
What land did President Thomas Jefferson buy from France in 1803?
Louisiana Purchase
Many Natives died on their forced march to Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
Limited Government interference
Prices determined by supply and demand
Private business ownership
Competition
Americans allowed to buy, sell, and make whatever they want
Characteristics of Free Enterprise
Gained in 1846 in an agreement to split the land at the 49th Parallel
Oregon
Former Slave, abolitionist, wrote "The North Star"
Frederick Douglass
-Due to this decision, technically slavery could be practiced anywhere in the country
-Angered Abolitionists
-Gave rise to the Republican Party
Dred Scott Decision
Site where General Lee surrendered to General Grant
Appomattox
(App-O-Mat-tox)
-Established by William Penn
-Established for Quakers
-1st Anti-Slavery group in the Colonies
Pennsylvania
Colonists reaction to the Stamp Act
Boycott British goods
Guarantees freedom of religion, speech, and the press
Guarantees the right to bear arms
Guarantees the right to a fair ans speedy public trial
1st, 2nd, and 6th Amendment
The court case Marbury v. Madison established the Supreme Court's right to declare a law or action unconstitutional.....this right is called what?
Judicial Review
What did South Carolina threaten to do if the government did not repeal the Tariff of 1828?
Secede from the Union
Man made river connecting Lake Erie to New York City
Erie Canal
Joined the U.S. in 1845 as slave state
Texas
Wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to bring attention to the cruelty of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elected in 1860 as the 1st Republican President
Abraham Lincoln
issued in 1863 by President Lincoln freeing all slaves in the Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
Founded by Pilgrims who were escaping Religious Persecution in England
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Said that colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
Guarantees that rights not given to the Federal Government belong to the States
10th Amendment
British impressment of American Sailors into the British Military
What did Andrew Jackson call the election of 1824 after he won the most electoral and popular votes, but did not end up a President?
A corrupt Bargain
Immigrants and Americans moving to the cities to work in factories
Urbanization
Treaty that ended the US/Mexican War.
Gave the US the Mexican Cession lands that included present day Arizona, California, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Organized the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
South Carolina's reaction to Lincoln's Election
Seceded along with 6 other states
2 points of Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
1. Said slavery was immoral
2. Said his plan for re-admitting the South back into the Union after the war
-Accumulate Wealth (Gold)
-Spread Christianity (God)
-Expand Empires (Glory)
Reasons for European Exploration
King George III reaction to the Boston Tea Party
Issued the Intolerable Acts
1st form of Government in America
Articles of Confederation
President James Monroe issued this document that prohibited European colonization in the Americas....it said that any attempt to do so would be seen my the U.S. as an act of aggression.
Monroe Doctrine
Democratic Party
Immigrants left here because of a Potato famine, worked very cheaply...
Ireland
Purchased a few years after the end of the US/Mexican war in order to build a railroad south of the Rocky Mountains
Gadsden Purchase
Leader of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
2 points to Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address
1. Being in the Union was Perpetual
2. He would not ban slavery where it already Existed
Process of rebuilding and rejoining after the Civil War.
-Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South
-South Passed Jim Crow laws, enforcing racial segregation and discrimination in the South
Reconstruction