APUSH Period 3&4 Test Flashcards
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What led to the French and British conflicts?
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Expansion of British colonists into the interior of North America (Ohio Valley)
Iroquois sided with French
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What were the impacts of British and French conflicts?
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The French were removed from North America (lost a trading partner)
British colonists expanded on to the native lands
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What was the impacts of the French Indian War?
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Britain gained large amounts of land
France was essentually removed
Britain became in debt from war
Sought to raise revenue nd gain more control over colonies
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What was the impacts of the French Indian War for the English colonies?
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Salutary Neglect Ends
Britain begins to collect taxes (Sugar Act 1764, Stamp Act 1765)
Tensions from war helped lead to the American Revolution
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Post 7 Years War, what did Britain seek to limit?
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Expansion
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What forbade expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains for English colonies?
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Proclamation Line
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Natives resisted what of colonists?
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encroachment (Pontiac’s Rebellion)
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What united colonists against the British?
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British taxes without colonial representation or consent
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Who created taxes without colonial representation, stating they were virtually respresented?
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Parliment
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In what way was colonists okay with colonial taxes?
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If they could vote for representation
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Colonists successfully _ taxes (stamp and townshed) and they developed more _ in their cause.
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boycotted; resolve
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What did Enlightenment inspire American political thinkers to emphasize on?
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Individual talent over hereditary privilege
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Simular to the Great Awakening, what else challenged traditional authoirty?
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Enlightenment
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Who was an Enlightenment thinker that advocated legal and political equality for all, as well as the end of special privilages for elites?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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After the Revolutionary War, what was outlawed in many states?
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primogeniture
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Who inherits most, if not all, of property?
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Eldest son
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Colonial legislatures allowed for significant amounts of what?
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self government (which most colonists held dear)
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What result from Britain taxing more to colonists?
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Colonists resisted the acts
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Colonists were okay with _ _ taxes, not _ taxes.
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Colonial legislature; Parliment
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Were colonial legislatures elected by colonists?
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Yes
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Was Parliment elected by colonists?
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no
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What was Thomas Paines Common Sense?
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Challenged KG3
it was common sense to break from the corrupt monarch
Little island couldnt rule large continent
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What was the Declaration of Independence?
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Inspired by Enlightenment ideas (Locke, Paine)
All men had the natural rights of Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
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What were the Articles of Confederation and State Constitutions?
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Feared strong centralized goverment (Britain)
Articles and state Constitutions had strong legislature branches
Property requirements for voting and citizenship - fear the masses
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What was the challenge of trade under the Articles?
each state could place tariffs on goods from otehr states - discouraged trade between states
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What was teh challenge of finances under the Articles?
Each state could coin its own money, differing values, high inflaction in some states, also discouraged trade (some states had debt from Rev war; Fedural goverment couldnt require taxes)
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What were the challenges under the Articles?
Trade
Finances
Foreign relations
Internal unrest
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What was teh challege of Foreign relations under the articles?
Britain refused commerical treaties with US
Congress could not control commerce (Sanctions against Britain)
Spain- cut off access to Mississippi river
Both countries supplied indians with weapons
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What was the challenges of internal unrest under the articles?
Shay's Rebellion: MA farmers demanded debt relief, attacked court houses
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The challenges under the Articles helped many Americans realize stronger _ _ was needed.
Central government
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What were the 2 Compromises at the Constitutional convention?
Great Compromise (Conneticut Compromise) and 3/5 Compromise
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What was the Great/Conneticut compromise?
Roger Sherman
Combined VA plan (large states) and NJ plan (small states)
Created bicameral system
A census would be taken every 10 years to determine population
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What was the 3/5 Compromise?
For the purpose of representation, 3/5 slaves woud count as 1 person in South
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Both Great and 3/5 Compromse settled issues of what?
Representation
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What was there a limit on under the constitiution?
Federal power
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What is the division of power between state and federal goverment?
Federalism
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What did Federalism do?
Gave Specific powers for both the federal and state governments
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Why was the constitution finally radified?
Federalists (those who favored the constitiution) promised to add Bill of Rights that protected liberties
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What as added shortly after the constitution was ratified?
first 10 admendments
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Political parties emerged over what issues?
Relationship between national goverment and states
Economic policy
Foreign affairs
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What happened within relatonships between national governments and states?
Federalists favored stronger national governments
Democrates/Republicans favored a smaller government
VA and KY Resolutions
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What are the VA and KY resolutions?
belief that states could nulify federal laws
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What happened within economic policies?
Hamilton's Financial Plan (Federalists) would strengthen the federal goverment
The creation of the BUS wasnt mentioned in Constitution
Hamilton argues Necessary and Proper or elsastic clauses
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What happened within forein affairs?
Federalists favored Britain (trade)
| Democratic and Repulicans favored France (saw French Rev as an extension to American Rev)
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What was the Republican Motherhood?
Women were expected to instil republican values in children and families
Increased educational oppurtunities in women
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Who were the federalist's against?
anti-federalists
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What was written to advocate the radification of the constitution?
Federalist papers
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What was established by Washington and Adams?
Institutions and precedents
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What was created by Washington and Adams under institutions and precedents?
2nd term tradition (until 22 amendments by Washington)
creation of cabinet
creation of the Bank of US (BUS) Alexander Hamilton
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What was the order of the Acts?
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Sugar Act 1764
Stamp Act 1765
Quartering Act 1765
Declaration Act 1766
Townshead and Revenue Act 1767
Tea Act 1773
Intolerable Act 1774
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After the French lost the 7 years war, what arose and continured throughout the late 18th century?
White Indian conflicts
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Where were the Paxton Boys located?
Pennsylvania
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Who were the Paxton Boys?
Scots-Irish group that was upset with Pennsylvania's leniency toward Natives
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What did the Paxton boys do?
Murdered 20 Natives then marched to Philadelphia with demands
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Who helped resolved the march by promising to consider their issues?
Ben Franklin
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When and where was the battle of Fallen Timbers?
1794; Ohio
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What was the battle of Fallen Timbers?
Natives, led by Little Turtle, defeated Americans
| Killed 630 Americans
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What treaty did the Indians sign after their defeat in 1794?
Treaty of Greenville
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What was the impact of the battle of Fallen Timbers?
Natives ceded a lot of land
| Were allowed to keep some land but it was later encroached
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Due to migration within North America, what emerged around the world?
backcountry culture
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What did back country cultures fuel?
social and ethnic tensions
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What was the impact of back country culture?
Scots-Irish
| Shay's Rebellion
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Where did Scots-Irish settle?
Frontier (edge of settlements)
| Settled on land without regard to ownership (government, natives)
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What rebellion was a rebellion of farmers that demanded an end of foreclosures, imprisionment for debts, and paper currency? (closed courts)
Shay's Rebellion
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Scots-Irish and Shay's rebellion illustrated tensions between what groups?
poor (back country) and wealthy (interior)
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Where did Spain expand settlements in the 1760s?
California
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What was created when Spain moved to California?
Missions (forts)
| trade expanded
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What happened to Natvies when Spain moved to California?
died from disease
| forced to convert to Christianity
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What was the Northwest Land Ordinance 1787?
Created a process to admit new states (60,000 pop)
Guaranteed freedom of religion and trial by jury (before Bill of Right)
Slavery was abolished (Civil War starter)
A portion of land sales went to fund education
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What treaty helped settle conlict between US and Britain (British were attacking US ships, still had presence in key ports)?
Jay's treaty
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What treaty was where Spain, fearing a British-US alliance, signed it. (US could navigate the Mississippi, given right to of deposit in New Orleans, Florida boundry was fixed where US wanted it)?
Pinckney's Treaty
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What were the reasons for political parties?
Economic
Political
Foreign policies
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What were regional differences in political parties?
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Urban, wealthy upper class tended to be Federalists (merchants/trading)
Rural farmers, middle to low class tended to be Democratic Republican
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Jefferson believed that farmers were _ of the economy.
Backbone
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What economic policies did the political groups believe in?
Federalists: Hamiltons Financial Plan; BUS
| D/R: were wary of it
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Did Federalists want a strong central government?
yes
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Who did each politcal party favor in foreign policy?
Federalists: Britain (trade)
| D/R: France (French Rev was an etension of American Rev)
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What became a staple crop of the south?
Cotton
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What was the impact of cotton exhausting lands?
Plantations moved west
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What did many Southerners see slavery as?
neccssary evil but then positive good
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Cotton becomes _
king
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Who created the cotton gin?
Eli Whitning
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When did the Republican motherhood emerge?
during and after Rev war
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What was the Republican motherhood?
It was the duty of mothers to raise good citizens
| Women became a leading teacher of their children of values and citizenry
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What was a result of the Republican motherhood
women gained more access to education
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In the development of the 1st and 2nd political party systems, what did federalists favor?
strong central government
supported by upperclass (merchants, bankers)
Pro British
Loose interpretations of the Constiution
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In the developent of the 1st and 2nd political party systems, what did D/R favor?
state rights
supported by lower and middle class (farmers)
Pro French
Strict interpretation of the constitution
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What two thing did D/R and Federalist party develop out of?
French Rev
| Hamilton's Financial Plan
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Under the 2nd Political Party System, what were democrats led by?
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Andrew Jackson (Common Man)
against BUS and other elite organizations
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Under the 2nd Political Party System, what were the Whigs led by?
Anti Andrew Jackson
favored stronger federal government
internal improvemnts
BUS
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The supreme court strengthened the power of the _ _ often at the expense of _ _.
federal government; state government
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What trial established the principle of judicial review?
Marbury v. Madison
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What trial upheld constitutionality of the 2nd BUS and gave more power to the federal than states?
McCulloch v. Maryland
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What trial started taht Congress, NOT states, can control interstate commerce?
Gibson v. Ogden
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With a growing economy, Americans debated the role of what?
government in the economy
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What convention was where New England delegates were upset with embargos and War of 1812 (cut off trade to Britain - major trading partner) and proposed several ammendments including tougher restrictions for declaring war and passing ebargos?
Hartford Convention
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What were internation improvements?
Debates over the role of federal government in intrastate improvements
(Mayesville road veto 1830
Jackson vetoed a bill for the roach which would only be in KY)
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Regional, political, and economic loyalities overshadowed what?
national concerns
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What was the event where SC and other southern states opposed the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832; SC even nullified the tariffs?
Nullification Crisis 1833
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Who threatened to secede if Jackson collected tariffs by force?
South Carolina
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What was Webster's 2nd reply to Hayne?
Webster promoted nationalism over sectionalism
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Why did many whites in the South associate their regional idenity through the pride of slavery?
Wealthy's saw themselves as aristocrats; owning slaves was a sign of wealth
Poor favored slavery so they were higher on the social order in society
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What ways were people resistant to initiative for democracy?
Proslavery arguments
Xenophobia
Anti black sentiments in political and popular culture
Restrictive anti indian policies
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What increased pro slavery arguments?
Nat Turner's Rebellion 1831
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Who wrote "Slavery as a Postive Good"?
John Calhoun
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What was "Slavery as a Positive Good"?
argued that slaves worked under better condiions than industrial workers in the north
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What would some advocates use to justify slavery?
Bible
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Who also had proslavery arguements?
George Fitzhugh
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What is xeophobia?
fear of foreigners
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What is nativism?
pro native born Americans and hostility to foreign born individuals
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What were immigrants accused of?
stealing jobs by working for less money
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Why were the Irish heavily discriminated?
belief that they stole elections
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What was the Know Nothing Party (American Party)?
hoped to pass immigration restrictions laws; became a powerful political party in the 1850s
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What was the Know Nothing Party simular to?
American Protetive Association of late 19th century
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How were anti black sentiments in political and popular culture?
Minstrel shows (varity shows using black face)
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Where were indians removed to in the Indian Removal Act 1830?
tribes in Georgia were moved west of Mississippi River
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How did Jackson ignore the supreme courts ruling in Worchester v. Georgia?
Natives were forced to moved (Trail of tears)
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What was the World's first Modern mass democracy?
United States
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What did the 2nd Great Awakening and social ideas from abroad help to inspire?
humans to achieve perfection
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Who had massive sermans to convert individuals?
Charles Finney
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What convension was a womens rights convention in NY and Elizabeth Cady Stranton and Lucretia Mott made it?
Seneca Falls 1848
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What are utopian societies?
social experiments that hoped to achieve perfection in communites (oneas, Brookfarms)
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What technilogical innovations increased efficenicy and extended markets?
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Textile machines
Steam engines
Interchangable parts
Canals
Railroads
Telegraph
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What did textile machines do?
made production faster (Spinning Jenny)
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What did steam engines do?
allowed boats to go against the current
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What did interchangable parts do?
increased production (Eli Whitney)
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What did canals do?
shipped goods further (Erie Canal)
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What happened to railroads?
increased drastically
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What did telegraph do?
information spread more rapidly
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Who was the father of the factory system?
Samuel Slater
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What did more and more Americans shift from?
Subsistence farming to producing goods
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What did entrepreneurs focus on?
financing
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What was the name of the factory system in MA where daughters worked in factories in 8 hour shifts and lived in houses and dormatories?
Lowell system
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Regional economic specialization, especially the demands of cultivationg southern cotton, shaped what?
settlement patterns
| the national ad international economy
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What were the impacts of cotton?
Raw material used in textile production in the northeast
Economic ties incresed (specialization for each region)
Trade with European countries (Britain France) shaped international economy
The internal slave trade increased as demands for slaves increased
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Did unified national economy ever fully come to fruition?
no
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Who was linked together more than with the south?
North and middle
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What was Henry Clay's 3 parts?
1) Internal Improvemnts - road, canals, etc
2) Tariffs (1816) goal was use to fund internal improvements
3) Bank of US
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How did the American system have its eritics?
inter v. intra
| state trade
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Who vetoed the Maysville Road
Andrew Jackson
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What were the two impacts of seeking natural resources?
Free migration of people
| Forced migration of people
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Why was their free migration of people?
Populations grew
Threats were removed (War of 1812)
more Americans expanded west
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Why was their forced migration of people?
Slavery expanded farther and farther west (Civil War starter)
Native Americans-Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears
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How did unions begin?
Commonwealth v. Hunt - MA State Supreme Court decision ruling that labor unions were legal
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When did labor unions become more populat?
In the later years
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The economic changes caused by the market revolution had significant effects on what?
migration patterns
gender and family relations
distribution of political power
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What increased american migration westward?
Canals (Erie), roads
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What else did canals and roads do besides helped migration westward?
Shipments of goods
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What did new communities replace?
Old family and local relationships
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What developed under new community systems?
churches
schools
taverns
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What played an instrumental role in new communites?
religion (gatherings for Bible readings)
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Where did immigrants from Europe tend to settle?
East and Midwest
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What did immigrants moving to the east and midwest increase?
interdependence between northeast and Old Northwest
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What did Germans do?
lived in Ohio as farmers
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What did Irish do?
urban workers in cities (Potato famine in 1840s to 1850s)
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How did the south remain distinct culturally?
Plantations helped define the region - so economically profitable
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How did the south remain distinct politically?
Plantation owners had significant power; laws protected and reinforced slavery
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What did many wealthy whites view themselves as?
Aristocrats
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How did the south remain distinct in ideologically?
Honor in the south was different in the south than north (dwelling persisted)
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Who was the defender of slavery, said to women "Women, like children, have but one right, and tht is teh right to be protected." The right of protection involves the right to obey?
George Fitzhugh
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Exports to Europe fueled what?
economic growth
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What were the results of the Market revolution?
Gap between rich and poor increased
New emerging middle class
Home and workplace become more seperate
Gender and family roles and expectations changed drastically
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Did people begin to work outside their home more often?
yes
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What was the Cult of Domesticty?
Seperate spheres for women
| Expectation was to be subordinate to men and raise children
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Who was an abolitonist and womens rights activist?
Lydia Maria Child
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What became a major focus for many political leader stances on several issues?
Sectionalism, not nationalism
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How was sectionalism a major focus for many political leader stances for slavery?
increasing tensions between north and south as teh late 19th century went on (Fugitive slave law)
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How was sectionalism a major focus for many political leader stances for the National Bank?
Northeast tended to be for the BUS
| South was against
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How was sectionalism a major focus for many political leader stances for internal improvemnets?
West was not developed as other areas
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How was sectionalism a major focus for many political leader stances for tariffs?
Favored by north manufactorers
| disliked by south
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What did the US do after the Louisiana Purchase?
expand trade and contact beyond the border
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What was significant about the new Oregon border?
US and Canada eventually settled in the 49th Parallel
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What was significant about annexing Texas?
After Texas declared independence, the US added Texas in 1845 (debates over slavery)
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What was significant about the US trading with China?
Treaty of Wanghia (1844) improved trading rights for US in China
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In what ways did the US seek to dominate North America?
military
judical actions
diplomatic efforts
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What did the Monroe doctrine do?
Warned Europe to stay out of Latin America, in return US would stay out of European affairs
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What was the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
helped resolve the Maine/Canada boundry dispute (Aroostook War)
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Various American groups and individuals initiated, championed, and/or resisted what?
expansion of territory and/or government powers
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What were debates raised about?
expansion
| incorportation of new territories
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What did the Missouri Compromise desire to balance?
number of free and slave states
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Who resisted the authority of the federal government?
North and South states
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What was New England's reaction to the War of 1812 and embargoes against Britain?
Hartford Conversation
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What was southeners reaction to high tariffs (SC Exosition and Protest)?
Nullification Crisis
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Who advocated for expansion?
those living on the frontier
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Who started Warhawks during War of 1812?
Henry Clay
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After War of 1812, why were Indians on the frontier less of a threat?
they were pushed west
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What were the two Native American conflicts and federal efforts to control Natives?
Indian Removal Act
| Seminole Wars
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What was the Indian Removal Act?
supported by southerners, pushed Natives west of the Mississippi River
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What was the Trail of Tears?
forced removal west of MIssissippi
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What were the Seminole Wars?
series of wars with Natives in Florida
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The American acquistion of lands in teh West gave rise to what?
contest over the extension of slavery into western territories
a series of attempts at national compromise
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Missouri Compromise had _ _ success, but eventually _ _.
short term; broke down
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What were the 3 parts of the Missouri Compromise?
ME= free
MO = slave
36 degrees 30'
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Who warned of the Missouri Compromises affects?
Thomas Jefferson
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What was the MO compromise later overturned by?
KS-NB Act
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What did the KS-NB act lead to?
Bleeding Kansas
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What was the cause of increased tensions and debates over national goals, priorities, and strategies?
Slavery expanding to the Southwest
