FINAL TEST!!! Flashcards
(43 cards)
This was a policy of the British government in which trade rules were rarely enforced. This eventually became a cause of the American revolution because it allowed individualism and free land ownership.
Salutary Neglect
This was founded by James Oglethorpe as a haven, known as a debtor colony because English prisons were overflowing with debtors. Also known as a buffer colony to keep Spain from expanding north from Florida.
Georgia
A short-lived attempt by Richard Henderson and investors to purchase a large chunk of Kentucky and Tennessee(1775, owned by the Cherokee) in order to make a profit in the animal pelt business. The colony ceased to exist when the Virginia General Assembly invalidated the purchase. These events led to the future Watauga Settlements and their petitions to govern themselves independent of British rule.
Transylvania Purchase
When the Treaty of Paris was signed Great Britain expected the US to pay back war debt, salutary neglect allowed too much individualism and widespread of land ownership to cause this war. Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first shot of this battle.
Cause of the American Revolution
The first governor of Tennessee from 1790 to 1796. He was also one of the first two senators elected from Tennessee in 1796. He served in the revolutionary war and helped negotiate the Treaty of Holston.
William Blount
The newer and second version of this law. A white male slave owner only had to say that the African American was an escaped slave and he would become his.
Fugitive slave act of 1850
Owned the mill where gold was found.
John Sutter
Found the gold nugget while building on Sutter’s mill.
James Marshall
Moved because of potato famine in their country. Were usually poor, worked in factories, and were not respected by the Americans.
Irish immigrants
Moved because of failed revolution in their country. Usually had some wealth and could buy some land in the Ohio River Valley area.
German immigrants
Resulted in the outlawing of slavery in Tennessee. Gave universal voting rights to all males. Adopted the Tennessee State constitution that is in effect today! Contained laws that banned interracial marriage, integration of schools, and allowed poll taxes. Discriminatory laws were eventually overruled by the TN State Supreme Court.
Tennessee Constitution of 1870
16th president of the U.S. and was so at one of the worst and bloodiest times in American history. He had a reputation as an honorable man. Before he ran for president he ran for a senate seat against Stephen Douglas and lost. He gave the “house-divided” speech during this time. As president, he always said whatever he did was to preserve the union, He was antislavery and ran as a republican.
Abraham Lincoln
Fought in the war of 1812 and is known for how he was during the battle of New Orleans. Received the most votes in the election of 1824 but not the electoral college. against John Quincy Adams. He was the 7th president of the U.S. and was known as the people’s president or common man. He spread voting rights and democratic ideals. He also created the spoils system.
Andrew Jackson Section
A minister and editor on a proslavery TN newspaper that wrote about the complicated feelings Tennesseans had about slavery, secession, and such. When the civil war broke out, he was outspoken against TN secession. He went on a speaking tour up north and re-launched his newspaper. He helped get the right to vote for the freed even before the fifteenth amendment.
William Brownlow
wrote many pamphlets and books. It used logic and emotion to support the argument for independence and raise the morale of the Conntential Army. He wrote Common Sense which simulated broad support for independence. He also wrote The Crisis which was a series of essays in his ongoing support of the American Revolution
Thomas Paine (crisis and common sense)
Created the Kansas-Nebraska act. Ran in the election of 1860 but lost to Lincoln.
Stephen Douglass
Unwritten agreement to put Hayes in office if the republicans promised to remove all troops from the south.
Compromise of 1877
The Continental Congress created a plan for the nation as a whole. Instead of having three branches of government it only had one branch and a one-house legislature, called Congress. There was NO executive branch and no system of national courts. The framers of the ____________ kept in mind their complaints against Britain. The new states did not want to risk giving too much power to the central government. Thus, the __________ provided for a limited central government. In the __________, most of the power was in the hands of the state. Congress could NOT regulate trade, collect taxes, or enforce a common currency. It could, however, make laws, declare war, coin or borrow money, and run a postal service. It failed because there was more power to the state than the central government.
Articles of confederation
Said that no one could be denied the right to vote, no matter race, color, or past servitude.
15th amendment
A meeting of delegates to revise the Articles of Confederation. However, by the end of the convention, our country had a new Constitution. George Washington was quickly voted the leader of the convention and James Madison wrote everything down during the convention. It had 3 branches of government and gave more power to the central government.
Constitutional Convention
Was the Cotton Capital of the South because of its fertile land and was next to the Missippi river.
Memphis, TN.
The Cherokee and the British became allies during the French and Indian war. The relationship soon began to deteriorate, and the two sides became hostile. In 1760, the Cherokees led by Attakullakulla laid siege to Fort Loudoun in Tennessee. The colonial troops surrendered but the Cherokees killed 25 and enslaved 200 more. This led to the Cherokee War.
Massacre at Fort Loudoun
Took place near Memphis, TN. General Grant moved down southwest from Kentucky to gain control of the Mississippi. Albert Johnson met him before he could get to the major railroad town of Corinth. At this confrontation, the Union won and gained control of the Confederate railroads and the northern part of the Mississippi. And, as you have read, since Farragut got the southern part later, cutting them off, the Union would soon finish out the War here.
Battle of Shiloh
Adams was being criticized heavily by Republicans for avoiding war with France. Congress passed 2 laws in 1798 in the wake of this outcry for war. One act, the ______ increased the duration from 5 to 14 years that a person had to live in the United States to become a citizen. The other act, the ________ made it a crime for anyone to write or say anything insulting or false about the President, Congress, or the government in general.
Alien acts/Sedition act
