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History Exam II
Desyntary!
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04/03/2013

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Manumission
Definition
allowed individual owners to free their slaves.
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Business Cycle
Definition
the periodic expansion and contraction of output and jobs inherent to an unregulated market economy
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Cotton Gin
Definition
a boom on the export of raw cotton; this machine was responsible for boosting Georgia and South Carolina’s economy
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Naturalization Act
Definition
lengthened the residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years
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Little Turtle
Definition
Miami chief leader who led the confederacy warriors crushing American expeditionary forces sent by President Washington
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Louisiana Purchase
Definition
This state was sold to America by Napoleon in fear of it being inevitably invaded. This forced Jefferson to also reconsider his strict views on the constitution
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Tecumseh
Definition
Shawnee war chief who revived the Western Confederacy. Mobilized the western Indian peoples for war
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Ethiopian Regiment
Definition
military force that enlisted slaves who had fled their patriot owners
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Anti-Federalists
Definition
opponents of the constitution; stated that it lacked the declaration of individual rights, and feared that the central government would be ran by wealthy men
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John Jay
Definition
was responsibl for passing a treaty in which ignored the American claim that free ships make free goods. It also required the U.S government to make full and complete compensation to British merchants
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Pontiac’s Rebellion
Definition
rebellion in which nearly overwhelmed Britain’s frontier ports
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Currency Act
Definition
banned the American colonies from treating paper money as legal tender. It also ensured that British merchants would be paid in gold or in good money, boosting their profits and British wealth
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Virtual Representation
Definition
interests of American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants trading with the colonies and by sugar planters living in England who owned estates in the west indies
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Townshend Act
Definition
imposed and taxed on colonial imports of paper, paint, glass, and tea
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Emancipation
Definition
freedom of slaves in the form of slaves buying their rights by years
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Republican Motherhood
Definition
the idea that the primary political role of American women was to instill a sense of patriotic duty and republican virtue in their children mold them into exemplary republican citizens
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Whiskey Rebellion
Definition
Western Pennsylvania farmers protested Hamilton’s excise tax on spirits
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Western Confederacy
Definition
Consisting of Shawnee, Miami, and Potawatomi tribes who banded together to form an alliance against American expeditionary forces
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
Definition
Haitian leader who seized control of the country who was also a former slave plantation owner
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Tenskwatawa
Definition
provided the confederacy with a powerful nativist ideology. Urged indian peoples to shun Americans and initiated a holy war against the invading whites
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Popular Sovereignty
Definition
authority of government is sustained by its people
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Thomas Paine
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Creator of the pamphlet: Common Sense. Believed in independence and a republican government
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The Federalist Papers
Definition
a series of eighty-five essays that defended the constitution. Its authors denied that a centralized government would lead to domestic tyranny
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XYZ Affair
Definition
French foreign minister, Talleyrand solicited a loan and a bribe from American diplomats to stop the seizure of merchant ships
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Proclamation of 1763
Definition
land speculators voice discontent
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Sugar Act
Definition
won parliamentary approval from George Grenville. This policy garnered little policy in America and replaced the ignored Molasses Act. This policy was claimed to ruin the French trade and ruin the distilling industry
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Stamp Act Congress
Definition
Protested the loss of American “rights and liberties” especially the right to a trial by jury. Challenged the constitutionality of the stamp and sugar acts by the colonists arguing that only their representatives could tax them
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Non importation Boycotts
Definition
Reduced American trade deficits and increased American exports. This forced parliament to reconsider the Townshend duties. However, parliament retained the taxing on tea as a sign of supremacy
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Boston Tea Party
Definition
artisans and laborers (Sons of Liberty) who disguised themselves as mohawks; boarded the Dartmouth and dumped its entire cargo of tea into the harbor
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Abolition
Definition
it was an act of getting rid of slavery
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Richard Allen
Definition
founded the Bethel Church, a separate black congregation. Later, he became the first bishop of a new denomination, African Methodist Episcopal Church. People (blacks) that went to his church believed in equality rights for all
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Alien Act
Definition
authorized the deportation of foreigners
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Judiciary Act of 1801
Definition
The federalist Congress wanted to keep the control they had as federalists so they passed this act which allowed President Adams to appoint federalist judges before he had to leave office
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Fallen Timbers
Definition
battle in which defeated the Confederacy; this battle was led by General “Mad Anthony” Wayne. America gains Ohio after forcing the Native Americans to sign a treaty
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Embargo of 1807
Definition
prohibited American ships from leaving their home ports until Britain and France stopped restricting U.S trade
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Shay’s Rebellion
Definition
resembled American resistance towards the British Stamp Act. Though it failed, it showed that many middling patriot families felt that American oppressors had replaced British tyrants
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Common Sense
Definition
The idea of a call for independence and a republican form of government.
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Rotten Boroughs
Definition
sparsely populated, aristocratic-controlled electoral districts that was condemned by The Radical Whig John Wilkes
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Vice-Admiralty Courts
Definition
a court that was ran by a British-appointed judge. This left anyone who wasn’t part of the British (colonists) at a disadvantage. It was also used to enforce the navigation acts
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Sons of Liberty
Definition
Group led by wealthy merchants such as John Hancock and John Adams. A disciplined mob that demanded the resignation of stamp-tax collectors
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Daughters of Liberty
Definition
Wives and daughters of patriot leaders. Boycotted and utilize only american products and joined crowd actions as the patriot men did
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Charles Townshend
Definition
Took over for William Pitt. He sought restrictions on the colonial assemblies and strongly supported the Stamp Act
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Capitalism
Definition
an economic system based on the private ownership of capital goods and the means of production, with the creation of goods and services for profit
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Coercive/intolerable Acts
Definition
First Continental Congress; third boycott of British goods
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Sedition Act
Definition
prohibited the publication of insults or malicious attacks on the president or members of congress
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Tippecanoe
Definition
Battle between the United States led by WIlliam Henry Harrison and Native Americans led by Tecumseh. Harrison won and earned the nickname Tippecanoe
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Bill of Rights
Definition
The first 10 amendments . These amendments safeguarded fundamental personal rights
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Minutemen
Definition
A defensive force consisting of citizens. They were intended to stand at a minutes warning in case of alarm
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Stamp Act
Definition
taxed the newspapers and legal documents created by urban printers, lawyers, and merchants
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George Grenville
Definition
Prime minister of Great Britain; authored the stamp act
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Fletcher v. Peck
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Protects the property rights through broad reading of constitution's contract clause.
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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Safeguards property rights, especially of chartered corporations
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Gibbons v. Ogden
Definition
Gives national government jurisdiction over interstate commerce
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McCulloch v. Maryland
Definition
Affirmed the constitutional doctrine of implied powers; it was "necessary and proper" for congress to establish a national bank
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Business cycle
Definition
a boom and then a downturn in business. buying or making something a lot and then when people stop buying it, the layoff of workers. The layoff of workers makes the economy go down
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Temperance, abolition, women's movement, universal men’s suffrage
Definition
Prepare to identify specific reform movements inspired by the Second Great Awakening
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  • Missouri comes in as a slave state

  • Maine comes in as a free state

  • 36/30 line to divide the slaves and free states
Definition

Prepare to explain key characteristics of the Missouri Compromise


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Alexander Hamilton’s financial plan stabalizes credit in America. Warfare in Europe. The invention of cotton gin allowed the cotton boom in the South.
Definition
Prepare to describe the causes of the first economic boom in America after the Revolution
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Parties were dangerous in a sense that they look out for themselves rather than serving the public interest.
Definition
Prepare to identify the issues that led to the emergence of the first party system.
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American military setbacks increased opposition to the war among the Federalists. Afterwards, the Republicans split into two camps: National Republicans and Jeffersonian Republicans. No more fighting with Canada after the War of 1812. The war of 1812 destroyed the Federalist party because of the Hartford Convention.  


In 1820, people have spilled over into the Louisiana territory. Missouri wants to come in as a slave state.

Definition
Prepare to explain the consequences of the War of 1812
Term

 

  • Limiting the office to a single four year term and rotating it among citizens from different states

  • Placed a restriction on embargos to 60 days and requiring ⅔ of the majority in congress to declare war, prohibit trade, or admit a new state to the union.
Definition

What constitutional amendments did the Hartford Convention 

propose?

Term



  • Gave Britain control of the eastern half of North America and returned a few captured sugar islands in the West Indies to France.

  • The Indians were stripped of their rights to their land[i.e. The Cherokees were forced to relinquish claims to 5 million acres (3 quarters of their territory) in treaties with Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia]

  • Granted Americans fishing rights off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

  • Prohibited the British from carrying away any “negroes or other property”

  • Guaranteed freedom of navigation on the Mississippi to American citizens “forever”

  • Allowed British merchants to pursue legal claims for prewar debts and encouraged state legislature to to return confiscated property to Loyalists and grant them citizenship

  • We become independent. British recognizes our independence. Trans-appalachian west. The British demand us to repay so that they would take their soldiers out from the trans-appalachian west. No side keeps their promise and this leads to the war of 1812.


 

Definition
Prepare to explain the consequences of the Treaty of Paris 1783
Term
  • Territories could become states as their populations grew.

  • The ordinance also required that half of the townships be sold in single blocks of 23,040 acres each

  • Created territories that would eventually become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin

  • Prohibited slavery and earmarked funds from land sales for the support of schools.

  • Provided for orderly settlement and the admission of new states on the basis of equality.


Definition
Prepare to describe key characteristics of the Northwest Ordinances
Term
  • The Virginia plan rejected state sovereignty, it called for national government to be established by the people, and for national laws to operate directly on citizens of the various states.

  • The New Jersey plan gave the confederation the power to raise revenue, control commerce, and make binding requisitions on the states. It also preserved the states control on their own laws and guaranteed their equality.

  • The Great Compromise ensure that the national’s legislature upper chamber have two Senates from each state while seats in the lower chamber be apportioned by population.
Definition
Prepare to describe main elements of the New Jersey Plan, the Virginia Plan, and the Great Compromise
Term
Hamilton’s financial plan consisted of public credit which would build good credit for the U.S, provide a national bank in which stabilized the American economy, and raising revenue tariffs, which generated revenue in paying the annual interest on the national debt.
Definition
Prepare to explain the key elements of Hamilton’s Financial Plan
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Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams concluded that the British ruling elite was determined to exploit the colonies for its own Benefit. Ben Franklin also suggested that the colonies were now distinct and separate states.
Definition
Prepare to describe the central elements of the sovereignty debate
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