AMREV
What is the French alliance?
What is the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
5 of the 13 states only agreed to ratify the Federal Constitution after this was assured
What is a Bill of Rights would be added to the Constitution?
Three ways in which the Democrats and Whigs were SIMILAR
What is they were national parties, avoided the slavery issue, and used mass campaigning?
the majority of White families in the antebellum South typically owned this many slaves
What is zero?
two compromises that dealt with the slavery issue at the Federal Convention
What are 3/5 and Slave Trade Compromises?
Three concepts found in the Declaration of Independence
What is natural rights, social compact, criticism of specific Parliamentary acts, etc.?
small, but significant victories, that raised morale and convinced many Continentals to re-enlist for another year
What are Trenton and Princeton?
The Federalist was written in support of the Federal Constitution by Hamilton, Madison, and this future SCOTUS Chief Justice
Who is John Jay?
Why the Missouri Compromise can be seen as a victory for the North
What is it closed the majority of Louisiana Purchase to slavery?
the most common form of resistance to slavery in the Antebellum period
What is non-violent resistance, such as breaking tools, working slow, feigning illness, etc.?
the virulent debate over this document in the mid-1790s served to harden the differences between the two emerging political parties
What is Jay's Treaty?
first attempt by Britain to conserve what military resources they had AFTER the French and Indian War
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
taxed common items, enlarged the Vice-Admiralty Courts, and paid royal officials in the colonies directly from the King
What are the Townshend Acts?
The parts of Hamilton's financial plan (3)
What is a national bank, assumption of state debts, a protective tariff, and a tax on whiskey?
proposed following the second war with England, it was designed to take full advantage of the economic changes in the US in the early 1800s
What is the American System?
Three results of the new national market economy that developed between 1815 and 1860
What is greater specialization, mechanized mass production, a decline in the domestic system, the start of labor unions, a growing income gap between rich and poor, etc.?
the expansion of the canal and RR networks in the first part of the 19th century led to this major economic development
What is the emergence of national trading systems or the Market Revolution?
throughout the 1760s and early 1770s, these effectively created a network of communication linking the colonies in protests
"In our native land, in defense of the freedom...which we ever enjoyed ...we have taken up arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, 1775
Britain's response to actions like those described in the excerpt was to do this
What is declare the colonies in rebellion?
a major political impact of Hamilton and Jefferson's disagreement over the creation of a national bank
What is the creation of the first political parties?
Agreement between the US & England in which each nation pledged to limit the number of warships on the Great Lakes
What is the Rush-Bagot Agreement?
Due to state and municipal efforts in establishing public schools, literacy rates among White Americans in some parts of the US were this high by 1860
What is ninety percent?
Reform movement that used appeals to emotional and physical health to achieve its goals
What is temperance?
stated it was "absurd" for a small island to rule an entire continent
What is Common Sense by Tom Paine?
Washington's greatest challenge during the AMREV
What is to create a professional army from state militias?
One task in which the Confederation govt. was successful
What is providing a method for admitting western territories as states?
the immediate trigger for the issuance of the Monroe Doctrine was incursions by this European power on the west coast of North America
Who is Russia?
led to the growth of many social and moral reform movements in the first half of the 19th century
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
notion that women were to act as moral and civic guides to their families in the early republic