unit 1(1491-1754)
Columbus discovered "America" in what year?
1492
who were a part of the committee of 5?
consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.
president during Trail Of Tears?
Andrew Jackson
purpose of manifest destiny?
Manifest Destiny is the belief that Americans had the right, or even the duty, to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This would spread the glorious institutions of civilization and democracy to the barbaric Native Americans.
is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans?
Ku Klux Klan
columbian exchange lead to? (3 main ideas)
exchanges of food, diseases, animals, ideas, goods, etc.
what major event led to the intolerable acts?
Boston Tea Party
name atleast 1 reason to the louisiana purchase
the failure of France to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, the impending war with Great Britain and probable British naval blockade of France – combined with French economic difficulties
who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
integration for standard oil (include man's name)
rockefeller - horizontal
founder of rhode island colony?
Roger Williams
why did the british tax the colonies? (name of war and explanation)
french and indian war because of war debt
what was the treaty of ghent?
The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom.
the dred scott case was significant because?
upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Temperance leader who smashed kegs of beer and barrels of whiskey
carry nation
what items were part of the triangular trade?
rum, slaves, molasses
which plan favored small states? which favored big states?
small = NJ
big = VJ
what was corrupt bargain?
Henry Clay, a fiery rival of Jackson, teamed up with John Quincy Adams to forge a coalition that secured Adams's seat in the White House. This act came to be known as the “Corrupt Bargain” by Jackson's supporters. This was only the beginning of a long sequence of years marked by bad blood between Jackson and Adams.
who were border ruffians?
In the fall of 1854, Senator David Atchison of Missouri led over 1,700 men from Missouri into Kansas to vote for their pro-slavery representative. These were the infamous "border ruffians," who threatened to shoot, burn and hang those opposed to slavery.
Ran for president and lost as a populist candidate in 1892
President Harrison's re-election bid was a decisive loss in both the popular and electoral count, unlike President Cleveland's re-election bid four years earlier, in which he won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote.
What was the first major social movement that affected all thirteen colonies?
Great Awakening
what was the northwest ordinance of 1787?
defined how ownership of the vast lands in the Northwest Territory would be legally transferred from the federal government to states and individual landowners.
what did specie circular lead to? (economic downfall)
battle that was considered biggest turning point?
(Gettysburg or Vicksburg)
He passed the Pendleton Civil Service Act to end the patronage system (spoils)
President Chester A. Arthur on January 16, 1883.