Period 1
What was a factor for the European migration to America in the 15th-16th century?
People looking for religious freedom
What were the Articles of Confederation?
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate
What was the Manifest Destiny?
It was destined under God’s will for the United States to expand across North America.
What was Reconstruction?
The period of time that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and Europe
What was the Navigation Act?
It required that goods be carried on a ship owned by English/Colonial merchants. It could only export sugar and tobacco to England and could only import English goods and tax exports of sugar and tobacco
Who wrote the declaration of independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What did the three-fifths compromise state?
In order to determine the population of a state, only 3 out of every 5 slaves would be counted.
What did the Jim Crow laws do?
Mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks
Who said, ““However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”?
George Washington
How did the Seven Years War affect Native people?
They were forced out of their native lands and had to move to the Appalachian Mountains
Why did the Stamp Act cause more resistance than the Sugar Act?
1. Motivated the revolution.
2. Cost of Great War put England in large debt-> taxed Americans more than before.
3. Admin of Britain worried about the American colonies
4. Ended salutary neglect and America's political autonomy= stopped bribery and evasion of taxes. It revealed how little power Britain had over the colonies= power was shared among the colonial assemblies.
5. Native Americans became a concern.
How did the ideals of Jefferson and Hamilton differ?
Hamilton: Federalist, Strong central government, National bank, Loose interpretation of the Constitution, High tariffs.
Jefferson: Democratic-Republican, State power, Strict Understanding of the Constitution, Does not want the government to be involved in the economy, did not want a national bank, Low Tariffs
What were the 5 major points of the Compromise of 1850?
California would be admitted as a free state
The remainder of the Mexican seccession would be divided to created New Mexico and Utah and organized without the mention of slavery
The Fugitive Slave Act would become much stricter
The claim of Texas by a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by $10 million
The buying and selling of slaves was abolished in Washington DC
What right was granted to conquistadors by the Spanish government? What impact did it have on the Native Americans?
The government granted conquistadors who settled in the Americas the right to demand either taxes or labor from Native Americans living on the land.
Who said, “The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill, have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States, by the Constitution.”?
Thomas Jefferson
These three measures were first adopted by the First Continental Congress
Endorsed Suffolk Resolves
Passed the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, created the Continental Association
Declared that if colonial rights were not recognized the delegates would meet again in May 1775
Who said, “I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.”?
John Brown
Who said, “I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.”?
John Brown
Who said, “Fathers, both you and the English are white, we live in a Country between; therefore the Land belongs to neither one nor to other; But the Great Being Above allow'd it to be a Place of Residence for us; so Fathers, I desire you to withdraw, as I have done our Brothers the English; for I will keep you at Arms length. I lay this down as a Trial for both, to see which will have the greatest Regard to it, and that Side we will stand by, and make equal Sharers with us.”?
Native American Chief during the French and Indian War
Who said, ““And in the last place, it will be argued, that it is clearly within the provision which authorizes the making of all needful rules and regulations concerning the property of the United States, as the same has been practised upon by the Government.”?
Alexander Hamilton
Who said, “Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!”?
Andrew Jackson
Who said, “"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."?
Andrew Jackson
“[O]officials often proclaimed that they were ushering in a new age of dealing fairly and kindly with … indigenous inhabitants. Yet these new policies actually entailed one of the most draconian measures possible: the removal of indigenous children from their kin… to be raised in distant institutions… [I]nstead of watching from the sidelines as male government officials designed and carried out policies of indigenous children removal, many white women reformers campaigned for a greater role in setting public policy for indigenous peoples and became deeply implicated in this phase of settler colonialism.”
Margaret D. Jacobs