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The "Newburgh Conspiracy" was a plan to?
Definition
It was a plot by Revolutionary War officers (and defused by General Washington) to take control of the government if they did not receive pensions for their service.
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Definition
Created the Northwest Territory (area north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania), established conditions for self-government and statehood, included a bill of Rights, and permanently prohibited slavery
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Which of the following caused the most trouble for the Confederation government?
Definition
Finances
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Shay's Rebellion?
Definition
resulted in some relief to the farmers/debtors the following year by State Legislature
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The original, public purpose of the Constitutional government?
Definition
revise the Articles of Confederation
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Major debates at the Constitutional Convention NEVER centered on?
Definition
kind of government, kind of representation, slave representation
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According to the Constitution, which part of the new government would be elected directly by the people?
Definition
the House
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A key issue of disagreement between the northern and southern states was?
Definition
Whether or not slaves would count in the population for determining representation in Congress
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The Constitution would be considered ratified as soon as it had been ratified by?
Definition
had to be ratified by 9 out of 13 states
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The Federalist argued that?
Definition
size and diversity of the large new country would make it impossible for any one faction to control the government
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Which of the following was not part of Washington's cabinet?
Definition
The only positions were:
Department of state (Thomas Jefferson)
Department of treasury (Alexander Hamilton)
Attorney General (Edmund Randolph)
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As the first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton did all of the following EXCEPT?
Definition
-created a central national bank
-minted a budget system
-created a customs service
Term
Hamilton proposed to raise revenue for the new government in all of the following ways EXCEPT?
Definition
Proposed to raise revenues by creating a budget, a funded debt, a federal tax system, a national bank, a customs service, and a coast guard
Term
Madison and Jefferson objected to the national bank primarily because?
Definition
Madison objected saying Hamilton could find no basis in the constitution for a national bank.
Jefferson pointed to the 10th admendment saying a bank may be convient in aidind congress in collecting taxes and regulating currency, but IT WAS NOT NECESSARY.
Term
To gain Jefferson's support over federal assumption of state debts, Hamilton promised?
Definition
The Compromise of 1790
Term
The Republicans?
Definition
Led by J. Madison and T. Jefferson. Madison was the leader of them in congress.
They opposed everything Hamilton stood for.
Jefferson : was for a diversified capitalist economy w/ agriculture balanced by commerce and industry. He feared Tyranny and loved liberty and wanted to preserve a decentralized agrarian republic. His ideal america was where small farmers predominated: he did not oppose all forms of manufacturing but feared that the unlimited expansion of commerce and industry would produce large a class of propertyless wage laborers dependent upon others for their livelihood.
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Edmond Genet?
Definition
Welcomed to U.S. by Washington, b/c of Jeffersons arguement that U.S. should recognize new French Govt. He was Frances new ambassador. He outfitted privateers to capture British ships and conspired w/ frontiersmen and land speculators to launch an attack on spanish Florida and lousiana in retialiation for the spanish monarchys opposition to the French revolution. Became an embarassment to republican friends and the cabinet decided he had to go so washington gave him the boot. Jefferson and others still supported him and jeff resigned as secretary of state b/c he was in digust at the decision for the boot.
Term
The Whiskey Rebellion ended when?
Definition
After an Army of 13,000 soldiers under the command of General Henry Lee captured 20 rebels and carried them to jail, where one died and 2 were sentenced to hanging.
Term
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions argued that?
Definition
Since the constitution arose as a compact among the states, the states retained the right to say when congress had exceded its powers. The states could interpose their judgement on acts of congress and "Nullify" them if necessary.
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Jefferson's election of 1800?
Definition
He became the target of verbal abuse. opponents named him an athiest and a supporter of the excess of the French Revo. He was portrayed as a friend to farmers and a champion of states rights, frugal govt, liberty, and peace.
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In the case of Marbury v. Madison?
Definition
The Midnight appoints made by Pres. Adams made just before he left office sparked this case in 1803. Adams had signed Marburys official appointment 2 days before he left office and when James Madison became secretary of state Pres. jefferson directed him to withold it. Marbury then sued for a court order directing Madsion to deliver hiscommision. Chief justice John Marshall wrote the courts opinion. He wrote that Marbury deserved his comission but denied that the court had jurisdiction in the case. The court therefore could issue no order in the case.
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The Louisiana Purchase was a problem for Jefferson because?
Definition
The Constitution did not mention the purchase of territory anywhere in it. Jefferson suggested a constitutional amendment but it was argued againts. They reasoned that the power to purchase territory resided in the power to make treaties.
Term
Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with?
Definition
Aaron Burr
Term
Who was tried for treason for his vague intrigues concerning the Louisiana Purchase?
Definition
Aaron Burr
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The Embargo Act of 1807?
Definition
(Made by Jefferson) Stopped all exports of american goods and prohibited American ships from leaving for foreign ports. Ended imports since it was unprofitable for foreign ships to return from america empty. The constitutional basis of this was the power to regulate commerce, which republicans interpreted as the power to prohibit commerce. This failed from the beginning because few americans were willing to make the necessary sacrifices.
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The greatest humiliation to the United States during the war of 1812 occurred when the British?
Definition
Captured Washington D.C. and then burned it down.
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At the Hartford Convention, delegates from New England states?
Definition
Proposed seven constitutional amendments
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What major battle was won by the U.S. two weeks after a peace treaty was signed?
Definition
War of 1812
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The British attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry?
Definition
Resulted in a bombardment that did not force the forts surrender
Term
The Tarriff of 1816?
Definition
supported by England, opposed by the south. First intended to protect industry against foreign competition than to raise revenue.
Term
Whose presidential administration was characterized as the "Era of Good Feelings"?
Definition
James Monroe
Term
The Missouri Compromise did all of the following except?
Definition
prohibited the transport of more slaves into missouri. Provided freedom at age 25 to those slaves already born after the territory's admission as a state. admitted maine as a free state and missouri as a slave state. excluded slavery from the rest of the lousiana purchase north ofo 36 30 missouris southern border.
Term
"South Carolina Exposition and Protest" was published in response to?
Definition
The new tarrif of 1828.
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The Rush-Bagot agreement?
Definition
The Rush-Bagot Treaty was a treaty between the United States and Britain enacted in 1817 (signed April 28-29, 1817 in Washington, DC). The treaty provided for the demilitarization of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, where many British naval arrangements and forts still remained. The treaty laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and British North America. This agreement was indicative of improving relations between the United States and Great Britain in the period following the War of 1812.
Term
When Andrew Jackson invaded Florida to Fight the Seminoles in 1817, the territory belonged to?
Definition
the spanish
Term
In the case of McCullough v. Maryland, the supreme court?
Definition
Upheld the "implied powers" of congress to charter the Bank of the U.S. and denied the state of Marylands attempt to tax it.
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The Monroe Doctrine stated that?
Definition
The american continents were not to be considered as subjects for future colinization by an europen powers. That the political system of Euro powers was diff from that of the U.S. That the U.S. would not intefere with existing Euro controlled colonies. That the U.S. would keep out of internal affairs of Euronations and their wars
Term
Andrew Jacksons soldiers nicknamed him?
Definition
Old-Hickory
Term
As a result of the Eaton Affair, president Jackson?
Definition
He linked Calhoun to what he called a conspiracy againts peggy and drew closer to Van Buren.
Term
How many states joined South Carolina in nullyfying the Tarrif Acts of 1828 & 1832
Definition
None.
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The "Force Bill" of 1833 was?
Definition
requested by the president to use the army to compel compliance with federal law in S.C.
Term
In the case of Cherokee Nation V. Georgia, the supreme court?
Definition
John Marchall ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction. Cherokees were a domestic dependent nation. he said they had a unquestionable right to their land tho.
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Which of the following was not one of the so called "civilized tribes" in the American south?
Definition
The Civilized Tribes were Cherokee, Chicksaw, Creek, Seminoles, and Choctaw
Term
The one thing that united all members of the new Whig party was opposition to?
Definition
Their histility towards Jackson and his stand on the bank, indian removal, hard money, or internal improvments.
Term
Nicholas Biddle?
Definition
Of Philly was succesor to langhdon cheeves in derictor of the bank
Term
Pet Banks were?
Definition
State banks that held the benefit of federal deposits.
Term
Martin Van Buren was a descendent of what ethnic group?
Definition
The Dutch
Term
The cotton Gin was invented?
Definition
In 1793 by Eli whitney, a graduate of Yale
Term
The Preemptive Act of 1830?
Definition
responded to land mania. squatters could stake out claims ahead of land surveys and later get 160 acres at the minimum price of $1.25 an acre.
Term
The Erie Canal is located in?
Definition
New York
Term
Jefferson's embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812?
Definition
main cause of war was violation of shipping rights.
Term
Early factory workers at Lowell were?
Definition
mostly Women from new england who had given up idea of marriage. minimumally skilled and later supplanted by young irish immigrants.
Term
The largest group of immigrants living in the Americas in 1860 were the?
Definition
The irish
Term
The Know-nothing party?
Definition
American party, pledged not to vote for foreign born or catholic candidate when asked about paryty they said "I know nothing"
Term
In the case of Commonwealth Vs. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that?
Definition
forming a trade union was not in itself illegal, nor was a demand that employers hire only members of the union.
Term
The Locofocos were?
Definition
Supporters of Labor parties which faded so many of their supporters found their way into a radical wing of the Jacksonian democrats in 1835. produced candles lighting them with the matches called locosfocos when their opponents shut off the gaslights at one of their meetings at Tammany Hall.
Term
God "had planned the universe, built it, set it in motion, and then left it to its own fate." Which of the following emphasized this image of God?
Definition
Deism
Term
Which of the following religious movements attracted mainly workers and poor people?
Definition
The Second Great Awakening
Term
Horace Mann?
Definition
Led drive for state wide school systems. sheparded a bill that created a state board of education. defended public school system.
Term
Most of the colleges and universities founded in the 1830's?
Definition
Almost all were affiliated with a christian denomination
Term
The oneida Community?
Definition
Founded by John Humphrey noyes. Practiced complex marriages; any 2 ppl could have sexual relations as long as it was consensual.
Term
Transcendentalism?
Definition
public group of intellectuals from New england. Had close affinity with the quaker doctrine of inner light. meetings about philosophy, lit, and religion.
Term
Who embodied the transcendentalist gospel in America?
Definition
Ralph waldo Emerson
Term
John A. Sutter?
Definition
A trader who found his way to california. Built an enormous enclosure that gaurded an entire village of settlers and shops. became a magnet for americans bent on settling the sacremento country.
Term
The Battle of the Alamo?
Definition
Won by Santa Anna's troops, who demanded the alamos defenders surrender. Only survivors were 16 women children and survents.
Term
At the Battle of San Jacinto?
Definition
Mexicans were then defeated by Sam Houstons force in 1836
Term
Which of the following strongly supported the Mexcian war?
Definition
Ulysses S grant, or president and congress, or polk
Term
The American Capture of Mexico City was led by?
Definition
Zachary Taylor
Term
All of the following statements about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo are true except?
Definition
The treaty called for Mexico to cede the land comprising the present-day states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming in exchange for a payment of $15 million. In addition, Mexico was to relinquish all claims to Texas and recognize the Rio Grande as the border.

Other articles of the treaty called for the protection of Mexican citizens' property and civil rights within the newly acquired territories, agreement on the part of the United States to pay American citizens debts owed to them by the Mexican government, and the compulsory arbitration of future disputes between the two nations.
Term
Manifest Destiny?
Definition
O'Sullivan was expressing the long held belief that white Americans had a God-given right to occupy the entire North American continent. It was not a new idea, nor was it historically confined to America. Manifest Destiny as a concept was exercised in 1492 by Christopher Columbus and the Spanish monarchs who initially sanctioned the colonisation of South America. It was also exercised by the Pilgrim Fathers when they landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, by the British when they colonised Australia and India. Indeed, any act of colonisation and settlement at the expense of another race can be said to be an expression of Manifest Destiny.
Term
How many slaves had to be owned to be called a planter?
Definition
Minimun of 20
Term
Which of the following was not one of the three 'lazy' diseases?
Definition
Hookworm, malaria, and pellagra were the 3 lazy diseases.
Term
Nat Turner's rebellion occurred in which state?
Definition
Virginia (rural)
Term
What new country in Africa was bought and created by the American Colonization Society?
Definition
Liberia
Term
What did Garrison have to say about the American Constitution?
Definition
something pertaining to slavery. be/c he was againts it.
Term
What was the anti-slavery newspaper established by Frederick Douglass?
Definition
Liberator
Term
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Definition
(David Wilmot) NO slavey in new territory obtained from mexico.
Term
Popular Sovereignty was first proposed by whom?
Definition
Lewis Cass
Term
What Illinois Senator Saved the Compromise of 1850?
Definition
Henry Clay
Term
What Act in Congress repealed the prohibtion of Slavery north of the Missouri Compromise Line?
Definition
An extension on the compromise
Term
The 'Sack of Lawrence' occurred where and who did the sacking?
Definition
In Kansas
Term
Who carried out the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Definition
John Brown, a free soiler (his sons and three other men also)
Term
Who beat Sen. Charles Sumner with a cane on the Senate Floor?
Definition
Preston Brooks
Term
Dred scott claimed freedom in the courts based on, what?
Definition
Claimed that residence in illinois and the wisconsin territory had made them free
Term
What was Douglas's Freeport Doctrine?
Definition
His answer to Lincolns question on how he could reconcile popular sovereighnt with the Dred Scott ruling that citizens had the right to carry slaves into any territory.
Term
John Brown Seized the federal arsenal at what location?
Definition
Harpers Ferry, V.A.
Term
What popular young actor witnessed the hanging of John Brown?
Definition
John Wilkes Booth
Term
Which of the following was not a presidential candidate in the election of 1860?
Definition
The candidates were Lincoln, Stephen S douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and JOhn Bell.
Term
The first state to secede from the union was?
Definition
South Carolina
Term
What was the name of the ship that Presidnt Buchanan sent to reinforce Ft. Sumter?
Definition
Star of the WestRap
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