Revolutions/ Rebellions
served as American ambassador to France during the American Revolution and was instrumental in forging a military alliance with France against the British
Benjamin Franklin
The use of Africans as slave labor replaced this type of labor source
Define the term
What is Indentured Servants/Servitude?
The belief that God intended for white Americans to extend their territorial possessions from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans; ended in land stolen, bought, or taken by force from its original habitats
What is Manifest Destiny?
Initially thought to be a short-lived war based on the following
What is the North's abundance of resources for war effort, i.e., factories, railroads, trading goods, population
The Constitution was created to improve upon the weaknesses of this which included, no executive branch, unanimous voting, no say in interstate commerce and could not levy taxes
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Fought between the colonies and Great Britain on the premise of "taxation without representation" that resulted in the recognition of the United States as a free and independent nation
What is the American Revolution?
Wrote the newspaper the liberator
William Loyd Garrison
The 36.30 line determined that slavery could not exist below this line; intended to address the ideal of expansion to west and solve issues in Congress between the regions (Maine = free state and Missouri = slave state)
What is the Missouri Compromise?
These Amendments were created to support the transition of African Americans once the Civil War ended with a Northern victory
What are 13, 14, and 15th Amendments?
This provision was created to count slaves towards a state's population for representation in the House
What is the 3/5s Compromise?
This rebellion highlighted the weaknesses of the government under the Articles of Confederation. The government was foreclosing on farms and seizing land until armed farmers shut down the courts
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Last group of individuals to gain the right to vote; although, they were involved in every other groups' mission for equality
Who are women?
People got up to 160 acres of land.
They had to stay on the land for 5 years.
They had to make improvements to the land.
Anyone could apply.
Homestead Act
Rutherford B. Hayes elected as president, federal troops withdrawn from southern states, and southern states received economic support from federal government for railroad development
What was the Compromise of 1877 (End of Reconstruction)?
The ideology that federal and state governments share certain powers
What is federalism?
raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist______, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
John Brown
the journey across the Atlantic Ocean for Africans to arrive to the New World as slaves
What is the middle passage
The forced march of thousands of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma was called what?
Trail of Tears
What did the emancipation proclamation do
The Great Compromise divided Congress into 2 houses; Senate has equal representation; House has representation based on population. The compromise also included an executive branch and was proposed by these 2 states
What are New Jersey and Virginia?
ended the Revolutionary War; Britain agreed to accept American Independence and the United States gained control of land stretching to the Mississippi River
Treaty of Paris
What book caused many to become enraged about the system of slavery in the US?
Uncle Toms Cabin
African-Americans who left the South and went west to become farmers were called what?
Exodusters
Thousands of African Americans flocked to the northern army as a result of Lincoln acknowledging this infantry of Black soldiers and their bravery
Who were the 54th Massachusetts?
Anti-federalist are against strong centralized governments with a strong belief in states' rights, yet they initially refused to approve the Constitution without this attached
What is the Bill of Rights?