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| founded by joint stock company John Smith (leader) John Rolf (tobacco) boom and bust cycle |
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| 50 acres way to populate colonies small tax on land |
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| disease failure to take care of their basic needs malaria |
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| England favored sheep ofver people therefore sign a contract for 7 yers and then their free |
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| 1619 mini parlament model for every single colony power to collect taxes power of purse |
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| religious freedom for anyone who believes in the trinity |
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| 1676 bacon comes to get rich gets attacked by indians bacon goes on war path with indentured servants defeated by Gov berkley |
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| conversion / anti-nomianishm - you can do whatever you want / puritan work ethic / 1/2 way covenant |
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| saved or damned from birth / conversion |
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| Roger Williams / Starts religious liberty / Puritans send people they banish to here(rhode island) |
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| 1682 Quaker colony William Penn Friendliest places / believe in complete equality / proprietary colony |
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| George Oglthrpey / buffer state against Spain / typical chesapeake colony |
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| Barbados / took all basic rights away |
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| 1732 / Slaves make a run for florida but end up getting killed |
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| everything goes back to mother country |
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laws that enforce mercantilism
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| Salutary or Benign Neglect |
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| policy that allopws the colonies to take care of themselves |
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| Whitfield comes over and sparks this religious revival / Rather than being predestined for damnation, men and women could be saved by repenting of their sins/ exhorting people to worship God through good works/ weakens church politically |
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| use reasons to find natural laws / Locke / Its purpose was to reform society using reason, challenge ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and advance knowledge through the scientific method |
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| editor that accuses a governor / truth cannot be liable / freedom of Speech and the press |
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| Englands first attempt to control the colonies / 1763 / it fails |
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| Virtual vs. Direct Representation |
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| Mercantilism / Navigation acts / Salutary Neglect |
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| French and Indian war change all of these to increased British taxation and control. |
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| Albany plan of union / Ben Franklin / rejected by colonies / "Join or die." |
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| says that we cant cross over to the Ohio valley |
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| Stamp Act / Stamp Act Congress / Repeal / Declaratory Act |
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| creates an embargo / tar and feathering takes place / no taxation without representation |
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| Townsend Acts / Quartering Act |
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| The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act / we have to provide room and board to the British Soldiers |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| the way we communicate with each other about england / samuel adams |
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| Boston Massacre / Sons of liberty |
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| 1770 5 people die / redcoats found innocent / The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the taxes by the British government. They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party |
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| Tea act / tea party / coercive acts / quebac act |
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| lowers the price of tea / the principle / closed the port of Boston / disbanded the assembley |
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| First Continental Congress / Tories vs. Whigs |
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| it led to the Second Continental Congress / direct response to the Intolerable Act / Tories-loyal to the King / Whigs - patriots |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| Americas first acting government |
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| Thomas Paine's argument for Independance |
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| Englands declaration fo war against the colonies |
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| Declaration of Independance |
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| establishes political philosophy formal declaration of war |
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| First battles of revolution / gorilla tactics / early american victories |
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| Americans lose, but we show ourselves as a strong opponent / early american victories |
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| Washington's victories against the British and Hessians / early american victories |
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| long winter of the war / turning point of war |
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| French come to help us / turning point of war |
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| final battle of the revolution / turning point of war |
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| Experimental Period 1781 - 1789, tried different forms of government / most dangerous time in american history |
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| Articales of Confederation / Weaknesses |
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| it was a form of government that was too weak to succed / • can not tax • can not raise army • no president • can not control trade / only success is it provided some money |
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| Land Ordinance of 1785 / Northwest ordinance of 1787 |
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| two biggest success's of the articles of confederation, author Thomas Jefferson |
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| a meeting called to revise the 1786 Articles in one way and that was through trade / early step towards constitution |
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| western farmers from Massachusetts who are sick of paying high taxes |
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| Constitutional Convention / Compromises / Ratificatoin |
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| 1787 / they are writing a new constitution / Great comprimise is slave trade / Ratification is 3/5th vote / oldest written constitution in world |
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| Formally ended war, left many issues with British unresolved / independence / |
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| we declare neutrality between France and Britian while they are at war |
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| sent over to USA by France to get support from americans |
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| Hamilton's Financial Plan |
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| pro-business, pro British, first bank, loose constitution |
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| Farmers who used their leftover grain and corn in the form of whiskey as a medium of exchange were forced to pay a new tax. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to increase central government power, in particular to fund his policy of assuming the war debt of those states which had failed to pay. The farmers who resisted, many war veterans, were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation. |
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| The treaty gained the primary American goals, which included the withdrawal of units of the British Army from pre-Revolutionary forts that it had failed to relinquish in the Northwest The parties agreed that disputes over wartime debts and the American-Canadian boundary were to be sent to arbitration— The Americans were granted limited rights to trade with British possessions in India and colonies in the Caribbean in exchange for some limits on the American export of cotton. |
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| established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. It also defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River |
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| washington set precedent for future |
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| washington warns against foreign entanglements |
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| pro british, pro business, loose constitution |
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| Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans |
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| pro-france, for the people, farmers, strict constitution |
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| American diplomatic commission sent to France in 1797 to negotiate issues that were threatening to break out into war. French Foreign Minister demanded bribes before formal negotiations could begin / Americans were offended by them, and eventually left France without ever engaging in formal negotiations / X, Y and Z for the names of French diplomats in documents released by the Adams administration |
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| failure of the commission in XYZ affair, led to an undeclared naval war called the Quasi-War, and caused a political firestorm in the United States when the commission's dispatches were published |
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| cant say anything bad about president, used by federalist party to help put down democratic/repub party |
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| Virginia and Kentucky resolutions |
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| political statements in which the ____ and ____ legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional - jefferson and madison attack this law |
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| Jefferson defeats Adams / exposed one of the flaws in the original Constitution. Members of the Electoral College were to vote for two names for President / Republicans had planned for one of the electors to abstain from casting his second vote for Aaron Burr, which would have led to Jefferson receiving one electoral vote more than Burr. The plan, however, was bungled, with each elector who voted for Jefferson also voting for Burr, resulting in a tied electoral vote. The election was then put into the hands of the outgoing House of Representatives, which, after 35 votes in which neither Jefferson nor Burr obtained a majority, elected Jefferson on the 36th ballot |
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| we are all republicans and federalists |
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| Marbury vs. Madison and the Marshal Court |
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| marshall decision est. judical review / decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches / case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams as Justice of the Peace but whose commission was not subsequently delivered by jefferson |
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| bought from france for $15 mil / doubled size of country |
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| womans job to raise good american children / beginning or women's rights movement, if we cant be educated how can we educate our sons |
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| womans place is in the home |
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| jefferson closed all ports to prevent war because they were taking our ships / very unpopular / hurt economy because all trade shut down |
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| caused by impressment and seizure of cargoes / causes:trade restrictions brought about by Britain's ongoing war with France,impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion |
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| War of 1812 events and outcomes |
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| burning of washington, battle of new orleans, ft. mchenry star spangles banner / Neither side lost territory in the war, nor did the (treaty of ghent) that ended it address the original points of contention / Rush–Bagot Treaty was a treaty between the United States and Britain enacted in 1817 that provided for the demilitarization of the Great Lakes |
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| period of patriotism polical harmony following war of 1812 |
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| young girls into factories from england / muscle power to machine power, stole it from england /beginning of industrial revolution |
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| stops spread of slavery above (36, 30 long line) except missiouri can have slaves / postpones civil war for 30 years |
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| forbiding colonization of any of america's(north and South)/ no more european colonization / sticking up for ourselves giving europe a message |
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| clay's financial plan/AKA the american system |
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| allow the fledgling American manufacturing sector, largely centered on the eastern seaboard, to compete with British manufacturing through the creation of tariffs / end of the War of 1812, British factories were overwhelming American ports with inexpensive goods. To persuade voters in the western states to support the tariff, Clay advocated federal government support for internal improvements to infrastructure, principally roads and canals. These internal improvements would be financed by the tariff and by sale of the public lands, prices for which would be kept high to generate revenue. Finally, a national bank would stabilize the currency and serve as the nexus of a truly national financial system |
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| revenue vs. protective tariffs |
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| tariff creates money for government / stop all trade because tariff is so high |
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| Election of 1824 / corrupt bargain |
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| jackson wins popular and electoral votes but doesnt have majority / Clay and John Q Adams hate jackson, vote goes to house of rep., clay persuades members to vote for John Q Adams,he wins |
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| Election of 1828/ jacksonion democracy |
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| Jackson vs. John Q Adam, jaskson wins / kitchen cabinent, government for the people |
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| structured for common man, farmers, small central government, states represented, |
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| same as federalists, loose big central government, favors busines and banks |
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| Tariff of Abominations / nullification crisis |
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protective tariff designed to protect industry in the northern United State,
The South, however, was harmed directly by having to pay higher prices on goods the region did not produce / ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina |
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| wife of cabinent member, other wives dont like, Jackson does, Jackson appointed Eaton (her husband) as his Secretary of War, hoping to limit the rumors, but the scandal intensified. Jackson felt political opponents, especially those around Calhoun, were feeding the controversy The controversy finally resulted in the resignation of almost all members of the Cabinet |
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| Webster Hayne Debate / force act |
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| argument in senate, started about land politics; and stemmed from debate over a resolution by Connecticut Senator Samuel A. Foot calling for the temporary suspension of further land surveying until land already on the market was sold (this would effectively stop the introduction of new lands onto the market / The Act gave the president the authority to use military power to enforce revenue laws |
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| vetoed a bill which would allow the Federal government to construct a road linking Lexington and the Ohio River, the entirety of which would be in the state of Kentucky. Congress passed a bill in 1830 providing federal funds to complete the project. Jackson vetoed the bill declared that such bills violated the principle that the federal government should not be involved in local economic affairs |
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| jackson hates the bank because its clay's work, does not like clay because he said bad things about jackson's wife, determined to kill bank and does |
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| state banks with US Treasury funds (jackson behing this), give tons of loans, economic boom, leads to panic of 1837 |
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| Indian Removal Act / Worceser v. Georgia |
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| cherokee of georgia americanized themselves, fight government in court, win but jackson ignores court and forces them off land, trail of tears |
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| Lone star republic / texas annexation question |
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| Mexican gov. wants americans to move here, houston leads fight for independace and wins, wants to be annexxed by america but jackson wont do it because he doesnt want ot start another civil war |
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| Alexis Betoqueville (french) writes book, america great but slavery a big problem |
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| The know nothing party / nativism |
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| irish immigrants flooding to america because of famine, people already in america fear foriegners and try to stop them from coming to US, |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson speech at harvard, challenges americas to be unique and different |
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| The second great awakening |
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| good works to get to heavan, help everyone, even slaves. Abolitionism encourages against slavery |
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| Specie Circular / panic of 1837 |
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| jackson said all land sales had to be backed by gold, after all the bad loans that his pet and wildcatbanks had given out. |
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| secetary of state under Jackson, likes peggy eaton, new candidate for president, sucks up to Jackson, brains of democratic party |
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| Independant treasury system |
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| provided that the public revenues be retained in the Treasury building and in sub-Treasuries in various cities. The Treasury was to pay out its own funds and be completely independent of the banking and financial system of the nation |
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| Industrialization, transportation, larger population, different priorities, futuristic, diversity |
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| King cotton, not many immigrants, less factories, defends slavery, sees slavery as good for slaves |
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| farming, more closely linked with North, anti-slavery because it gives southern farmers unfair economic advanrtage and never had slaves |
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| Transportation Revolution |
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| 1835 change from canals and turnpikes to railroads, spreads more in north trhan south, more of a national market |
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| religious revival starts in ny, mangetic preachers, do "good works", reforms were strongly supported by woman |
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| anti-alcohol, said to have caused many societal problems such as poverty or crime, passed laws to ban alcohol |
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| Mann from Massachuecetts, free public education, most kids had been doing work instead of school |
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| Dorthea Dix do not put mentally ill in cells with criminals, need to create helpful members of society |
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| no slavery, radicals garrison argues for immediate uncompensated emancipation, Frederick Douglass is and escaped slave, Grimke? sisters against slavery |
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| Senaca falls, ny, demand equality, writes declaration of sentiments, stanton, anthony and Mott |
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| era of common white man, universal white male suffrage, access to more land, nominating conventions, input from people on who runs for president |
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| perfectionism, Oneida NY, hippies "free love", joseph smith, young christians, are driven from ny to illlinois to salt lakde city, new harmony |
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| american philosophical belief, starts in ne, god is good, the earth is a good place, thoreau, emerson |
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| William Henry Harrison from west, for common man, war hero, log cabin campaign, makes fun of Marin van bruren, gets pneumonia and dies 40 days into office, copy Jackson |
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| James K. Polk is elected, last of Jacksonians, manifest destiny, go america |
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| expand america, powerful motivation, believed god chose us to rule the land, expanddddd |
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| 1845 texas brought into united states, upsets north andk anti-slavery people because it allows slavery to expand |
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| S4 '40' for fight, british agree to give ________ country to America, now connected from sea to sea. |
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| Mexican War / Causes and Controversies |
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| Mexico threatened war with the U.S. if it annexed Texas. Supported President Polk's spirit of Manifest Destiny /Republic of Texas claimed land up to the Rio Grande, but Mexico refused to accept these as valid, claiming the border as the Nueces River |
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| Mexican war / events and outcomes |
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| Americans win, general zachery taylor, treaty of San Jacinto, Mexican cession, we paid alittle, we get california |
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| on the topic of protectionist tariffs [these tariffs helped the manufacturing north, but not the south) / Webster and Hayne debate over a resolution by Connecticut Senator Samuel A. Foot calling for the temporary suspension of further land surveying until land already on the market was sold/ the northeast would lose power when more land was added to the west and south/ |
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| would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future/ It passed the House but failed in the Senate, where the South had greater representation |
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| clay chooses Zachary Taylor(doen't sign compromise of 1850) with VP filmore (does sign comprimise of 1850) |
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| five bills, passed in the United States in September 1850, which diffused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. |
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| Popular / squatter Sovereignty |
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| triggers civil war in kansas, people in territory get to vote on slavery |
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| Fugitive Slave Act / Personal Liberty Laws |
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| to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory/sought to protect the rights of those who didn't want to turn in escaped slaves. |
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| Uncle Toms Cabin /Anti-slavery argument |
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| Stowe is author, seperatioin of slave families, tear jerker,/ anti-slavery points to bible, no more than 200,000 abolisionists in north |
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| Calhoun and Pro-Slavery Argument |
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| bible allows slaves, calhouns argument is racism, slaves are needed to pick cotton, holding wolf by ears |
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| told Spain if they did not sell cuba we would take it by force |
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| 1852 Ripon, Wisconsin is birth place, whigs against slavery, liberal party, free soilers = want slaves to stay down south / barn burners = anti-slave democrats |
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| Franklin Pierce is northern Democrat but likes south and is sympathetic, allow popular soveriengty in Louisiana Purchase even though it is above Missouri comprimise line, unpopular |
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| Potawanamic creek - John Brown chops slave owners to death, violence, conflict is a mini civil war |
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| a symbol of how sectional we have become / Sumner from Massachuseuts,gives speech insulting Brooks,(Sumner attacked the Kansas-Nebraska Act. he argued for the immediate admission of Kansas as a free state, Sumner then attacked authors of the Act, Senators Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler, Representative Preston Brooks, Butler's nephew, was infuriated )Brooks beats Sumner with cane, some southerners send him canes |
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| His case was based on the fact that although he and his wife were slaves, he had lived with his master in states and territories where slavery was illegal /Taney is chief justice, from MD, strict contructionist (D) / decision; constitution does not make him a citizen, kept slave, said he has no rights, congress cannot ban slavery becuase it is property |
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| Lincoln (r), Douglas (d) / Lincolns only accomplishment is the spot resolution which failed, needed to gain visibility, were debating to win senate seat, Douglas wins, Lincoln wins the debate |
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| John Brown, south thinks north is behind it and gets aggressive, starts to build their own army |
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| Triggers succession, Lincoln wins election with 0 votes from south |
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| took place in two parts, split between two pars , in between is Fort Sumptner |
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| unsuccessful proposal introduced by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden on December 18, 1860. It aimed to resolve the U.S. secession crisis /wanted to go back to Missouri Compromise but Lincoln did not support it because it allowed the spread of slavery, failed |
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| lincoln decides to hold fort sumpter, Confed. Pres. Davis decides to take fort, caused Davis to gain border states |
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| lincoln decides to hold fort sumpter, Confed. Pres. Davis decides to take fort, caused Davis to gain border states |
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| industrial, larger population, international trade, factories, railroads |
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| Leadership, unified cause, defensive, on their own territory |
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| Northern war aims, advantages, and overall strategy |
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| preserve union / no slavery / Industry / population / trade / transportation /navy /anaconda plan / no england in war |
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| Southern war aims, advantages, and overall stratagy |
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| independence / repeat of 1776 / good military commanders /home soil / defensive plan / get england into war |
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| south attacks north here / south wins / south; captures fort, attack north |
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| Suspension of Habeas Corpus and Border States |
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| Desperate to keep MD / arrestt 1300 people / merryman case / lincoln violates constitution |
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| Port Royal experiment, "contraband" and status of African Americans |
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| program begun during the American Civil War in which former slaves successfully worked on the land abandoned by plantation owners / Army determined that the US would not return escaped slaves who went to Union lines and classified them as contraband / Slavery in DC? yes / lincoln doesnt want to upset border states / |
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| Trent Affair and and Civil War Diplomacy |
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| union ship takes 2 diplomats from british ship, england mad / lincoln releases diplomats to end affair |
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| Emancipation Proclamation / Use of african american troops |
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| proclaimed all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free / lincoln ok use of these in army, Massechuseutts 54th, paid less for service |
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| Military turning points of 1863 |
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Gettysburg = most southern deaths, south cant win
vicksburg = opens Mississippi river, helps anaconda plan |
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| Roles of Northern and Southern Women |
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| great during war as nurses, clara barton (red cross)/ Ran farms |
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| american system / high tax / banks / internal improvements / limited paper money |
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| Lincoln vs. McClellen / Lincoln wins / copperheads support McClellen,forget war, make peace and keep slavery |
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| 2nd Inaugural, Appomattax, and Assassination |
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| treat the south nice / surrender of Lee to grant / april 14 1864 Lincoln shot / johnson becomes president |
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| Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan and 13th amendment |
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| treat south nice, 40 acres and a mule, wade davis = harsh bill, 10% plan = state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation / this amendmant ends slavery |
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| was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1872,[2] during the Reconstruction era |
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| Johnson's Recontrution Plan |
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| rich southerners had to ask for forgiveness / black codes = limiting rights of blacks / |
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| Moderate Congressional Plan and Civil Rights Acts |
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| Back to Lincoln / presidentional plan / give blacks rights / kkk |
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| Radical Congressional Plan and 14th admendment |
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| come down on south / must pass 14th to be in union / grants citizenship |
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| Tenure of Office Act and Impeachment |
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| Tenure of Office Act the President could not suspend an officer while the Senate was not in session / Johnson made his move against Stanton (johnson did not agree with stanton), suspending when the Senate was not in session / when the Senate convened it refused to ratify the removal by a vote of 35-16. Notwithstanding the vote, President Johnson attempted to appoint a new Secretary of War. Proceedings began within days, leading to Johnson's impeachment |
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| Carpetbaggers and Scalawags |
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| go to south to take advantage of them, freedman's bureau /traders, southerns who wanted blacks to be treated fairly |
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| kkk / use terror to drive northerns back |
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| KKK act and 15th Amendment |
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| The act empowered the President to suspend the right of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan / this gave blacks right to vote |
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| Election of 1876 / compromise of 1877 / end of reconstruction |
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| Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote / 20 electoral votes were in dispute / informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877. In return for the Democrats' accepting Hayes's election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction |
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| Dark and Bloody, Woodward/Dubois, and Dunning Schools |
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| both sides at fault / north was right / south was right |
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| South after reconstruction / industrial development = railroads, factories / |
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| Nullifying the 13th amendment |
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| Outlaw slavery, black codes, yearly labor contracts / southern states passed it, force blacks to almost slavery, try to nullify it, could be sent to jail, sharecropping |
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| Nullifying the 14th Amendment |
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| Citizenship / jim crow laws take rights away from blacks, Plessy vs. Ferguson, seperate but equal |
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| Nullifying the 15th Amendment |
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| Right to vote (all males) / literacy test, grandfather clause = if grandfather did not vote you can't, poll tax, all white primary |
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| The Supreme Court and the New South: Cruikshank, Plessy and williams |
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C_____ - 1876 states did not have to follow bill of rights
P______ - 1898 seperate but equal is ok
W______ - ok to require literacy test |
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| Booker T. Washington approach |
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| gradual approach, get along with whites, blacks prove themselves then whites give them rights |
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| Fast approach, talented 10th (top 10% of blacks get education), the Niagra Movement |
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| anything past Mississippi river, indians dont want to give up land, dry in west cant farm |
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| Morrill And Homstead Acts 1862 |
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| land grant / give land to states, could sell land and build universiy / gave an applicant ownership of land, at little or no cost. In the United States, this originally consisted of grants totaling 160 acres |
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| Plains Indians and there way of life |
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| sioux and apache, depend on horses, nomadic, |
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| Post Civil-war/ indian wars / destruction of buffalo |
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| Phil Sheridan force indians to give up land / attack food supply |
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| enclaves, trail of tears, large areas in west, force indians to live here |
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| Cowboy's way of life / Abilene Kansas |
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| hard dangerous, cattle drives, cattle to abilene, high death rate / as far west as railroad went, boomtown |
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| End of cowboys way of life |
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| barbed wire, railroads, sheep herders, farmers, end of open range, winter of 1865 bad |
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| Dawes Severalty act/ carlisle indian school |
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| assimilation, indians like whites, dominate culture / take indian kids across country to Pennsylvanis for school to try to change way of life |
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| take indian land, boomers, 1889, sooners (cheaters) indians mad, land give away, race for land, whites want land |
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| 1890 wounded knee, census, turner thesis |
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| massacre, official end of indian wars, indian ghost dance / frontier has closed / frontier is what makes america |
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