Unit 1
Colonist were upset they were taxed without this, in British Parliament.
Representation
An example of economic sectional differences between the north and south
North: factories/industry
South: plantation, cash-crops, slavery
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
What was the name of the Political party and movement that ran on issue affecting everyday farmers and factory workers, like regulating railroads and making life less expensive with bi-metalism
The Populist party/movement
A peaceful way the American colonists protested the Stamp Act and other British taxes by not buying British made goods
boycotting
According to the Declaration of Independence, if the government fails to protect people rights, what do people of the right to do?
Alter or abolish the government
Name of Idea or concept that this cash crop was the most important export from the US during the pre-civil war period, and factories in the north and Europe were reliant on it
King Cotton
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were attempts to solve What issue that arose between the North and South while growing westward.
Expansion of slavery
Post Reconstruction economy became more diverse, involved textile industries and new educational opportunities here
The New South
What made “Jacksonian Democracy” different from the democracy of the past?
Increased suffrage (all white men able to now vote)
What was the first system of government the United States had as a nation? What was at least one power did it have or not have?
Articles of Confederation, couldn't tax, couldn't change, couldn't make treaties, couldn't raise an army
SC threatened to ignore federal rules on tarrifs, so Jackson threatened to invade and hang his own VP who supported the moment
Nullification Crisis
type of farming developed after the civil war across the south, farmers got into cycles of debt
Sharecropping
What was the name of local and state laws passed to maintain white Supremacy and keep people of different races segregated in the south during and after reconstruction?
Jim Crow Laws
Where does John Brown steel weapons from a federal arsenal to start a slave revolt and end slavery. Ends up getting captured and hung. Scares the South.
Raid on Harper’s Ferry VA in 1859
What caused the Whiskey Rebellion, and what did its outcome show us about the new national government compared to the government under the AOC?
Farmers taxed on whiskey, Washington crushes it, shows power of new federal government under the constitution vs. AOC
What does the Monroe Doctrine say about who should stay away from the Western Hemisphere?
Europeans
What eventually ends Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877 (as well as fear/intimidation by KKK and denying African Americans right to vote)
According to W.E.B Dubois, what was the key for guiding and uplifting the African American Race.
Education (also "talented 10th")
Who was critic of W.E.B Dubois and believed African American need a develop a strong economic base in order for obtain Political and Social Equality
Booker T. Washington
What Compromises were made at the convention (need at least 2)
Great Compromise (representation in the Senate equal per state, and representation in the House based on population of the state)
Difference between William Lloyd Garrison and David Walker on Abolitionism
Garrison for peaceful end to slavery, Walker for revolt and violence to end slavery
How did both the North and the South deal with Dissent (disagreement) during the Civil War?
Suspended Habeas Corpus
Attempt to "Americanize" and assimilate the Native American population
Dawes Act (Native American Boarding Schools)
What was the name of the Speech Delivered by William Jennings Bryan advocating for Bimetalism
"Cross of Gold" Speech