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| Articles of Confederation |
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| First constitution of the US and legally established the Union of the states |
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| agreement reached between large and small states that made the senate and the House of Representatives |
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| Missouri Controversy/Compromise |
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- more slave that free states
- Missouri could enter union eventually be a free state
- Gradual emacipation law that would eventually free the slaves within it's borders
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- absence of hostile competition
- country was free from European affairs and events
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| exercise tax on whiskey made from surplus American grains. Farmers rose up in protest against an "unfair assault on their livelihood" |
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- sent to U.S. as France's ambassadors
- French diplomat of the U.S.
- Commisioned American ships to attack British shipping in the Caribbean
- Recruited American mercenaries
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| Commercial/manufacturing interest envisioned activist central government strong in New England |
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| favored agrecrian interests minimal central governance emphasized state rights strong in South and west |
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| Federalist chosen by Washington as treasury secretary |
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| 2 Naval Ships-United States and Britain |
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| Forcing people to serve in the military |
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| Ideas of Alexander Hamilton to improve roads, buildings, banks and national currency |
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Law passed by Thomas Jefferson in 1807 that stopped all trade between America and any other country
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| Members of the twelveth congress who advocated waging war against the UK |
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| Event during the war of 1812 where New Englands opposition to the war reached the point where secession from the US was discussed |
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| diplomatic episode that soured relations between France and the US that led to an undeclared native war |
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| 4 bills passed by the Federalists that protected the US from alien citizens or enemy powers and to prevent seditions acts from weakening the government |
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| 1st contested American presidential election and the only one to elect a president and vice president from opposing tickets |
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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| Political statements in favor of states rights and strict constructionism |
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Democratic Republican Societies
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| Political organizations that promoted Rebublicanism and democracy and to right aristocratic tendencies |
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| Proposal for the structure of the US govt. |
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| Set the overall agenda for debate in the convention and for the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed National legislature |
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- 4th president of the U.S.
- Founding Father
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- Meeting of 12 delegates from 5 states
- Resulted in the Philadelphia Convention
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- "Revolution of 1800"
- Thomas Jeffferson wins over John Adams
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| Did not want to ratify the Constitution |
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The political leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence and took part in the Revolution
(Ben Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, etc.) |
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| Armed uprising in central and western Mass. from 1786-1787. Named after Daniel Shay. Most of Shay's competition were poor farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes. The attempted to prevent the counts from siezing property from indebted farmers by forcing the closure of courts in western Mass. |
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| Governing body of the U.S. from March 1, 1781-March 4, 1789 comprised delegates appointed by the legislatures of the states to the second continental congress. The congress of the confederation was succeeded by the United States congress |
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- Steal Travel-launched his 160 ton side-wheeler on the Hudson River
- Made upstream travel faster and cheaper
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- Signed by Andrew Jackson
- Supported in the south
- paved the way for emigration of American Indians to the west
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| Phrased used in the Southern United States mainly by Southern politicans and authors who wanted to illustrate the importance of the cotton crop to the confederate economy during the Civil War |
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- Presbyterian and Congregationalist figure in the 2nd Great Awakening
- Known for his innovations in preaching and religious meetings
- extemptoraneous preaching
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| Spoke out eloquently and passionately against slavery and for the rights of Americans black inhabitants |
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- Short lived political party in the U.S.
- Opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories
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Artifical water way, 360 miles long, largest canal Albany-Buffalo,
Transportation Revolution: primative |
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Next textile empire, from US, Learns about british textile machinery, 1790’s, new textile model, Village design-Lowell Mills were much more massive, increased from 22-50 |
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- Completed cloth and cotton manufacturing process
- Cotton spin yarn was sent to individuals homes
- Families completed the process and transformed it into cloth
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| Pioneered textile manufacturing, introduced the US to water powered textile manufacturing, very protective of his secrets, established the first textile plants (1790), slater mills relied on waterfalls |
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| Market based econonmy, farming families began to grow more crops for the broader state (state, regional,national, international markets), shifted away from substance farming, lives of the american’s began to change-more Americans began to purchase goods that they previously produced-(shoes, hats), commercial markets, series of Revolutions, faster travel and transportation, population, wage labor, farming, manufacturing |
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| Mexico shed American blood on American soil-excuse to start war |
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| Development of liberty, godly given mandate to spread republican, divine sanction to migrate west |
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| Resurrgence, religious revolution swept parts of the United States, revival meetings |
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| Immediate, uncondition emancipation of slaves without expatriation or compensation |
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| Any African American in the north could be declared a slave because of the act-Anyone who tried to stop the capture, helped in the escape of, or refused to help with the capture of a slave would be either fined or imprisoned |
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| Passed on May 30th, 1854. Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36 degrees. |
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| Declared that all blacks-slaves as well as free-were not and could never become citizens of the US |
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| Invented cotton engine which was hand operated |
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| A machine that quickly and easily seperates the cotton fibers from the seeds |
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| The struggle between President Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle over the cont. existence of the only national banking ins. in the nation during the second quarter of the 19th century |
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| Second Party System (Dems/Whigs) |
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| Refers to the national two-party competition between Democrats and Whigs from the 1830's until the early 1850's |
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Leading politican from New York among the first career politican
- illustrated the transitions that were taking place
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| Universal White Manhood Suffrage |
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- extension of the right to vote to adult citizens as a whole
- 2 Neccessary components=the right to vote and oppurtunities to vote
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- Jackson and Adams
- Jackson supporters believed the election had been stolen and he was the winner
- conspiracy
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- Mexico lost half of it's territories
- US became a continental power
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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| Interstate/Domestic Slave Trade |
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- Followed the termination of international slave trade
- plantation owners were desperate for slaves to work crops
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