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Called for a confederation of colonies. Join or die.

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Albany Plan of Union

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What established the concepts of the separation of church and state and the rule of the majority in a colony?

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The Mayflower Compact

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Created in the 2nd Continental Congress. Established policies regarding the settlement and status of newly acquired westward lands.

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Articles of Confederation

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Used Locke’s philosophy of natural rights to express that the citizens should rebel against the British oppression.

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

1776

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Banned slavery north of the Ohio River. Proposed that territories with at least 60k people could apply for statehood.

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Northwest Ordinance

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Argued Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. States should have the right to declare their own laws unconstitutional. Nullification.

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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

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The state legislature declared the new duties (1828 tariff of abominations) unconstitutional and endorsed a lengthy statement that affirmed nullification.

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South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification

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What is nullification?

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The states rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by Congress.

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Series of laws passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by Adams.

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Laws that included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for immigrants to vote.

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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1823 Isolationism; “nonintervention” in Latin America and the end of European colonization.

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Monroe Doctrine

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NY site of a feminist meeting. The Declaration of Sentiments was drafted and demanded true equality for women as well as men.

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Seneca Falls Declaration

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Declared all slaves in Confederate states free but slavery in boarder states was still legal. It boosted the morale of the union troops and supporters at home.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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  • Free coinage of silver
  • gradual income tax
  • direct election of senators
  • govt regulation of railroads
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Platform of Populist Party

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Attempt to protect Venezuela from European intervention. The US would aid any Latin American nation experiencing financial trouble.

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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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Terms for settlement of WWI. Large rejected by European nations.

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Wilson’s 14 Points

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Founder of the first English colony, Roanoke.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Husband of Pocahontas and early Jamestown settler. Discovered tobacco as a good source of money.

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John Rolfe

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Humble farmers who left the established state church and founded Plymouth

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Separatists.

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Founded Jamestown. Place where people could invest without fear of bankruptcy.

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Joint Stock Company

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Act of Parliament in Maryland that mandated religious tolerance.

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Act of Toleration

1649

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Elective representative assembly that marked the beginning of Representative Democracy.

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House of Burgesses 1619

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Followed the Neutrality Proc. of 1793, called for the removal of British forts in the west.

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Jay’s Treaty

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Ended the War of 1812. Provided for the end of fighting and the return of conquered territories to their rightful owners.

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Treaty of Ghent 1814

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A treaty which provided for the United States purchase of Florida from Spain in 1819, and which gained Spain’s guarantee that it would relinquish its claims in the Oregon Territory.

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Adams-Onis Treaty 1819

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Brought Mexican-American War to an end. Granted California and southwest to U.S. paid Mexican govt $15 million in war reparations.

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848

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Kidnapping of American sailors

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Impressment

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Right of deposits at New Orleans

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Pinckney Treaty

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Who lead the 1812 war hawks?

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Henry Clay

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What did the treaty of Ghent end?

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Impressment

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When does the Federalists party end and why?

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1814, unsupportive of the 1812 war. Hartford convention.

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What did the Embargo Act increase?

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Manufacturing

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When was the Corrupt Bargain?

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1824

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What was the Corrupt Bargain?

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Clay got senate to vote for Adams in return for Secretary of State position.

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Over Cuban Revolution.
Human rights issue.
“Yellow journalists:” Hearst and Pulitzer.

Result: explosion of the USS Maine.

Gained: Guam, Puerto Rico, West Indies, Philippines

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Treaty of Paris 1898

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Treaty of Versailles 1919

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Punishment of Germany by War Guilt Clause and had to pay all of war reparations.
League of Nations established as part of Wilson’s 14 points.
Treaty of WWII

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Indentured servants get 50 acres if land after they serve their 7 years.

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Headright System

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Germany punished with the War Guilt Clause and they had to pay reparations.

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Treaty of Versailles 1919

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Cause: Indentured servents not being given good land, Governer Berkley.
Effect: Berkley fled.
No more indentured servents, new source of labor is African slaves

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Bacon’s Rebellion 1676

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Cause: farmers and ex-soldiers couldn’t pay their taxes in Massachusetts because they were never paid for serving in the military.
Effect: they took over the armory and the courthouse.
The Articles of Confederation were weak, came up with the Constitution.

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Shay’s Rebellion 1786-1787

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Tax on whisky making, the people didn’t pay the taxes. Washington sent troops into Penn. with 15 thousand soldiers to prove “Strong central government.”

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Whiskey Rebellion 1794-1795

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The slaves rebelled, made their small freedoms be taken away from them.

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Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831

42
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Constitution made into bicameral with Senate and House of Representatives.

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Great Compromise of 1787

43
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State ratification
slave states=free states.
Maine is free: Missouri is slave
36º 30’ no slaves above

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Missouri Compromise of 1820

44
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Election of 1876 Florida

Hayes says he will end Reconstruction, remove army from South and South redeemed by Democratics.

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Compromise of 1877

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Royal Colony

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Under control of English crown

46
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proprietary colony

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owned by a private individual or company

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John Calvin

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preacher and persistant reformer, believes predestination, money elongs to a world of work

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City on a Hill

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John Winthrop tells the other Pilgrims in 1637 that they must be a city on a hill, Massachuettes Bay Colony

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Capitalism

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interest of money

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Mercantalism

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economic policy that looked upon trade, colonies and the accumulation of wealth as the basis for a countrie’s military and political trade

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Navigation Acts 1650-1673

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trade to and from colonies could be carried English or Colonial-built ships.
Enforcement: govt agents corrupt ie paid off.

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