Colonization and Revolution
What are the climate and economy of the New England colonies?
Protections by the first amendment:
Freedom to ___________, Assembly, Petition, Press, and Speech.
What is freedom of Religion?
Court case that established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
What is the steamboat?
Group of settlers who went out on the Oregon trail, but got stuck crossing the Sierra Nevada, and ended up cannibalizing each other.
Who is the Donner Party?
Author of the pamphlet "Common Sense", which encouraged Americans to declare independence from Great Britain in the lead up to the American Revolution.
Who is Thomas Paine?
What is no cruel and unusual punishment and no excessive bail?
Strong Central Government v. Strong State Government; the National Bank; Taxes
What are issues leading to the creation of political parties?
Push factors for Irish and Chinese immigrants (respectively. different reasons).
What is the Irish Potato Famine (Irish) and the Gold Rush (Chinese)?
The territory we acquired from Great Britain in 1846.
What is the Oregon Territory?
The first form of representative government in colonial America.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This principle is associated with the Bill of Rights.
What is Individual Rights?
Major criticism of Andrew Jackson's presidency; appointed his supporters/friends to office despite lack of qualifications.
What is the Spoils System?
The expansion and growth of cities as a result of industrialization and the factory system.
What is urbanization?
The ethical problem with westward expansion/the Mexican Cession that divided the North and South.
What is the spread of slavery?
What is the right to Life, Liberty, and Property?
Two house legislature, senate would get equal representation, house of representatives was based on population size.
What is the Great Compromise?
Prohibited further European colonization of countries in the Western Hemisphere. (Hint: written by John Quincy Adams).
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The belief that certain types of immigrants were not "American" enough.
What is nativism?
1857 court case which said that African Americans could not vote and were not recognized as citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Economic system where the colonies sent their resources and profits back to a mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Principle which allows people to vote for their representatives.
What is republicanism?
Major impact of the War of 1812.
What is increase in manufacturing/industrialization?
Cultural and art movement that focused on the relationship between nature and humans. Occurred during the Reform Era as a response to Industrialization.
What is Transcendentalism?
Established that California would be admitted to the Union as a Free State, abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C, amended the Fugitive Slave Act to make it easier for slave owners, and gave new territories the choice to become Free States or Slave States.
What is the compromise of 1850?