Unit 1 & 2
Colonial America & Build Up to Revolution
Colonial America & Build Up to Revolution
The first agreement for self-government in America, signed in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine
This political group was created in opposition of Andrew Jackson.
What is the Whig Party?
This emphasized domesticity, piety, purity, and submissiveness as the attributes of a true woman. (Must be the correct term)
This amendment protected newly freed slaves by granting them citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is the Seven Years' War?
Founding Father that recommended the country not form political parties when he left office.
Who is George Washington?
This is the supreme court case that Andrew Jackson refused to follow and continued with the forced removal.
What is Worcester v. Georgia
These abolitionists and women's rights activists grew up in the South in a wealthy, slave-holding family.
Who are Sarah and Angelina Grimke?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A phrase that is associated with John Winthrop's sermon "A Model of Christian Charity," where Winthrop warned the Puritan colonists of New England who were to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony that their new community would be this.
1st constitution of the U.S., a failure was that there was no plan to accommodate territorial expansion.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This system centralized the process of textile manufacturing under one roof, creating the modern American factory.
What is the Waltham-Lowell System?
This man viewed the dominated U.S. culture as one that champions virtuous principles while practicing immorality in his work "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This amendment gave male citizens the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
An religious event that led to an advancement of the idea of individualism and a willingness to challenge authority.
What is the Great Awakening?
The main disagreement between these two groups is whether the country would operate under a strong central government or as a loose association of separate states.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
This led to the belief that white men, regardless of property ownership, should have political power and a voice in the government
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
Who is Horace Mann?
This Supreme Court case ruled that the Missouri Compromise violated the 5th Amendment, which guaranteed the property of rights of all citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Three causes of the American Revolution. (Must list and explain)
Answers may vary (Up to Ms. O'Roark)
An event led by a veteran; they demanded debt relief, lower taxes, and protections against property seizures.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
A period in antebellum America that encompassed the industrial and transportation revolutions, the change from subsistence farming to large-scale cash farming, regional specialization, immigration, western-movement, and growth of cities
What is the Market Revolution
One Advantage the Union had and one Advantage the Confederacy had at the start of the Civil War. (Must list and explain)
Answers may vary.
Union - AD: Had more resources, more money, more railways and a bigger population. DIS: Didn't have a solid general to lead the army, was on the offensive which is a harder position to have.
Confederacy: AD: Strong military tradition, smart generals, Homefield advantage, just had to play defense. DIS: Less population, less resources, only big crop is cotton - not food but can sell for resources.