Period 3-4 Flashcards

(36 cards)

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Seven Years War

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France and America fight over land and Britian has to fight for them we get taxed for it

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Proclamation of 1763

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The boundary line past the Appalachian mountains settlers can’t pass

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British Tax

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A result of the seven year war things like the sugar tax, stamp act, and deculatory act

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Mercantilism

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Baby Capitalism

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Virtual Representation

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members of an elected body, such as the British Parliament, represent the country or empire as a whole regardless of where individuals live.

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Republicanism

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governing the nation as a republic, doing things for the greater good of the nation

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Patriots

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The people who were rebelling against Britain during the war, their goal was to fight against England. They had First Continental Congress.

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Loyalists

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Colonists who remained loyal to Britian.

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Common Sense

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Thomas Paine published the pamphlet Common Sense in 1776, argued that the colonists should leave Britian and establish an independent government based on Enlightenment ideals

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American Revolution

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The American Revolution was the war for independence of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain. The war was fought on American soil from 1775-1783.

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Declaration of Independence

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a document that declared that the United States were independent from Britian and that a new country would be formed out of its former colonies

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“Republican motherhood”

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Its a woman’s job to educate and nurture the next generation

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Constitutional Convention

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The meeting of state/colonies delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution. Farmers of Constitution.

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Articles of Confederation

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the first constitution of the United States, and they established a loose confederation of states with a weak central government

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Constitution

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the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world.

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Federalists

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Supported an orderly, efficient central government that could protect their economic status and wanted a strong central government

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Anti-federalist

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Anti Federalists wanted a weak central government and more power to the people and opposed the ratification of the Constitution.

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Bill of Rights

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The first ten amendments of the Constitution. The Amendments secure key rights for individuals and reserve to the states all powers not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the Constitution.

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Democratic Republicans

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Led by Thomas Jefferson, believed people should have political power, favored weak central government, emphasized the common man, strict interpretation of the Constitution, and opposed National Bank.

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Northwest Ordinance

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defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory

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Northwest Land ordiance of 1785

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laid out how lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold

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Washington’s Farewell Address

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Big man sets some rules for presidency only two term limits, and no foreign involvement no two party system

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Marshall Court

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Whigs

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They were in favor of inside improvements like building canals and railroads and the banking systems that would allow for those improvements like the National Bank.

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Jacksonian Democrats
The idea of spreading political power to the people and ensuring majority rule as well as supporting the "common man"
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Louisiana Purchase
U.S. got Louisiana territory from France in 1803 for $15 million. The purchase gave America control of the Mississippi river and doubled the size of the nation.
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Missouri Comprise
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state at the same time, so no tip the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
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The American System
sponsored program to harmonize and balance the nation's agriculture, commerce, and industry.
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Monroe Doctrine
Hemi-spheres of influence
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Market Revolution
Industrial and transportation revolutions, the change from subsistence farming to large-scale cash farming, regional specialization, immigration, western-movement, and growth of cities.
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Second Great Awakening
A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Salvation through good and tolerance for all Protestant sects.
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Seneca Falls Convention
1848 women's suffrage convention they write
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Romanticism
heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination,
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Abolition
The movement opposing slavery
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Manifest Destiny
It is our god given right to go west
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Mexican American War
The war was sparked by a dispute over the annexation of Texas by the United States and a l