WORDS AND TERMS
What did Thomas Paine try to convince Americans in his pamphlet Common Sense?
Break away from the mother country, England because America was too big to govern.
Washington warned America in his Farewell Address to not get involved with
Permanent foreign alliances
Why was the The Chinese Exclusion Act created in 1882?
To limit the number of Chinese laborers into the US
Which war was started by sinking of The USS Maine in the Caribbean Sea?
Spanish American War
Thomas Jefferson signed a law called the Embargo Acts that broke off trade with what two countries?
England and France. By doing this, this led to Americans getting upset with Jefferson and the ar of 1812 starting 5 years later.
The movement Westward to gain territories by war, purchase, or cession in the 1800's.
Manifest Destiny
Robber Barons such as Carnegie and Rockefeller created monopolies in the steel and oil industries. What type of laws were created to break them up?
Anti trust laws
This foreign policy was used in the Western Hemisphere by Teddy Roosevelt to gain land/protect smaller countries from European nations.
Big Stick diplomacy
Name one drawback the Native Americans encountered by European settlement in the 1600's and 1700's.
Wars with the Colonists
Stolen land
Natural resources were taken
Lincoln wanted to preserve the union during the civil war and issued this document to tell slaves in the south that they would be free after the war.
Emancipation Proclamation
The US government this law to encourage citizens to move westward to settle land in the frontier.
Homestead Act
Scheneck vs US and Korematsu vs US were rulings by the Supreme Court to
control free speech in times of war
What did James Madison and Alexander Hamilton try to convince Americans in the Federalist Papers?
To ratify the federal form of government called the Constitution which included the 3 branches and separation of powers
Jefferson relied on his Cabinet (Hamilton- secretary of treasury) to buy the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 by using this executive power of the Presidency.
Elastic clause: to create a treaty with France and borrow money from National Bank
Kansas Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri compromise and allowed the people to choose whether a state could be free or slave. What is that phrase describing the choice of the people?
Popular Sovereignty
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson used the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers such as Locke and Montesquieu to break away from England. Name 2 ideas listed in this document.
A government should listen to their citizens (consent of the governed)
All citizens have natural rights given by God
America should break away from England (independence)
If a government is destructive, the citizens have a right to abolish it
2 part question:
Why did the women's rights movement choose Seneca falls for their meeting in 1848? And what was the eventual goal of their movement
Erie Canal was centrally located to east coast and midwest
Women's suffrage- 19th amendment
Name 2 things unions wanted to achieve by striking.
High wages
Safe conditions
8 hour work day
Better benefits