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| Main Cause of the Indian Population in the 16th Century America |
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| Why the English Colony at Jamestown collapsed and who saved it? |
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| It almost collapsed because of harsh, bare winters and the Native Americans saved it |
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| Main crop for export in colonial Virgina? |
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| What was the Virginia colony's headright system? |
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| Legal grant of land to settlers, and given by Virgina Co. |
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| Colonly established for the intrests of debtors? |
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| What is indentured servitude? |
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| Free labor to provide collateral for their given land |
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| What was the Mayflower Compact? |
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| First form of self government in the Plymouth Colony, freedom to practice Christianity under free will |
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| Primary reason Harvard and Yale were founded |
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| What is the Halfway Covenant? |
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| Partial church membership founded in 1662 |
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| Dominion of New England 1686- Reason |
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| to enforce Navigation acts and to defend the US against the French and Native Americans |
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| Cause, consequences and major players in the Great Awakening |
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| Religious movement to revive religious intrest. Created intrest, redemption and membership |
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| Enlightenment and Former fathers assosciated with it |
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| It means to think for yourselves and take responsibility for what your actions are, had to do with the Bill of Rights and Thomas Paine |
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| American colonists' problem with England's mercantalist policy? |
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| They could only do business and trading with England |
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| Ben Franklin's famous politcal cartoon of 1754- plan it promoted |
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| Join or Die, promoted that we stay together to get through everything and nothing good happens seperated |
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| Impact of the French and Indian War on the attitude of Americans toward Britan |
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| Following the conflict- the Americans didnt feel that they needed the protection from England |
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| Causes and Consequences of Shay's Rebellion |
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Causes- Heavy taxes and crushing debt.
Effect- More effective central gov't and ditching the Articles of Confederation |
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| Causes and Consequences of Bacon's rebellion |
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Cause- Fail of protection from British Gov't and Native Americans
Effect- Governer being removed from office, slaves in tighter restrictions, and removal of Native Americans |
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| Problems for American colonists with Parliament's idea of "Virtual Representation" |
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| Their concerns werent considered and not everybody could vote |
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| Causes and consequences of the Boston Tea Party |
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Cause- The strong taxes on imports and other items
Effect- Britan removed taxes on tea |
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| Impact of Thomas Paine's Pamphlet Common Sense |
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| It gave people something to hold on to and gave people better sense of what they wanted from the gov't |
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| John Locke's contract theory of Gov't- what it was and what American document reflects it |
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| It was a document saying no Gov't existed, and it resembles the Articles of Confederation |
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| Significance of the Battle of Lexington and Concord |
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| First milita based battles of the revoultionary war |
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| Signifance of the Battle of Saratoga |
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| Significance of the Battle of Yorktown |
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| lost major battle in the American Revolution |
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| Contiental Congress' main concerns in drafting the Articles of Confederation |
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| the structure and powers of a new central gov't |
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| Provisons of the Northwest Ordinance |
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| Admisson of territories to be states |
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| Major rights gaurenteed by the Bill of Rights |
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| Attitude of founding fathers toward political parties |
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| Instrument of self-ambition |
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| Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion |
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| sent in troops to stop it |
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| Main conflicts between Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton |
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Hamilton- Fed. Lose interpretation, strong navy
Jefferson- Strict interpretation |
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| Event and impact of the XYZ Affair |
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| Brought US into War w/France |
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| Reason Jefferson and Madison wrote the Kentucky and Virginia resolution |
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| Importance of Presidential Election of 1800 |
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| Peaceful transfer of power |
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| Problem Jefferson had with the Louisiana Purchase |
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| Could be unconstitutional |
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| Accomplishments and trends in the decesions of the Marshall Court |
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| Supreme court- bases for a broad interpretation of the constitution |
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| Created the supreme court power of judicial review |
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| Main issue between the US and Great Britian at the start of the war of 1812 |
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| British impressment of Am. Soilders |
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| Impacts of the Battle of New Orleans |
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| increased self-confidence and fame of Andrew Jackson |
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| Impacts of the War of 1812 |
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| Demise of federal party, increased nationalism |
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| Who was at and who made the decesions made at the Hartford Convention? |
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| Federalists show discontent of the War of 1812 |
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| name given to James Monroe |
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| Main cause of the canal building period of the 1820's |
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| transportation in the Northeast |
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| What encouraged the beginnings of American Industrialization during the early 19th century? |
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| Dev. of Steam powered ships, internal combustion systems |
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| Lowell System- main economic activity |
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| Plan to promote and expand textile marketing |
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| Main ideas of the Monroe Docterine |
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| Western hemisphere who was closed to Europe's colonization |
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| Democracy in America- main arguments of about America and democracy and individualsim |
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| Argued America's individualism was a result of the lack of aristocracy |
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| What Jackson's 1828 Elections represented |
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| Beg of population democracy in America |
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| Andrew Jackson's main policies as president |
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| Number of banks issued and the currency grew |
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| What is the Trail of Tears? |
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| Forced migration of Indians to Oklahoma |
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| Caused mostly by Jackson;s montetary policies and specle circular |
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| Federal land paid only in gold or silver |
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| Jackson's objection to the Bank of the US |
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| Paper money issues and danger to free gov |
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| Jackson's reason for his Veto of the Maysville Road Bill of 1830 |
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| Felt it was unconstitutional for the fed gov't to pay for the improvement of one state |
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| Henry Clay's American System |
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| Plan to strengthen and unify the nation- Whig Party. High public land prices |
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| Romantic artist focue on landscape |
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| Seneca Falls Convention- Main Ideas Declared |
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| Declared that all men and women were created equal |
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| Terms of the Missouri Compromise |
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-Admitted Maine as a free state
-Admitted Missouri as a slave state
-Prohibited slavery 36-30 latitude |
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| Attitudes of Southern Whites toward slavery in the mid-nineteenth century |
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| Slave labor was cruical to keep economy |
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| Slave life and most common forms of slave resistance prior to the Civil War |
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| Intent behind "black codes" passed in the 1830's in many Southern States |
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| Limit rights if freed blacks & forced to move North |
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| Reasons for few slaves in New England and many in the South |
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| South- Large plantations- labor from slaves |
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| Reason for large increase in the South's slave force between 1810 and 1860 |
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| Invention of cotton gin- natural reproduction |
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| Eli Whitney's inventions and their impacts |
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| 1828 "Tariff of Abominations"- reasons for and consequences of |
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| John C Calhoune wrote the Docterine of Nullification in response to this Terriff |
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| People- right to decide wether will exist |
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| Doctrine of Nullification (what prompted it and what it stated) |
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| Prompted by terriff of Abomination |
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| Section of US that most European immigrants settled in during the Mid-Ninteenth century and why |
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| Northeast, closest, and good place for job opportunities |
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| Key issue in American politics in the 1840's (Not Slavery) |
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| Meaning of "Manifest Destiny" in the 1840's and 1850's |
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| Gold caused to expand to west |
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| Meaning of the slogan "Fifty-Four forty or fight" |
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| Annexation of Oregon, Polk said |
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| Most significant improvement in American transportation in the 1850's |
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| Terms and effects of Compromise of 1850 |
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| Didnt resolve issue of slavery completely in territories |
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| No slavery in the Mexico States Chester Arthur passed the Pendieton Act, requiring applicants in civil service to take on exam |
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| Free Soilers- What did they want and why |
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| Anti-Slavery, more jobs for free slaves |
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| Consequences of slave rebellions such as the 1831 Nat turner rebellion |
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| Former slave who led a rebellion causing south states |
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| Immediate abolition of Slavery |
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| Dred Scott decision (ruling and impact) |
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| Supreme court act which slaves were declared property |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Abolished slavery in all states that were in open relation |
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| Social and economic conditions in antebellum North and South |
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South- Big dogs,3/5 compromise
North- Struggling |
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| Lincoln's stand on slavery when cleared |
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| Freeing all slaves, not allowing slavery to expand |
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| Lincoln's Political experience before the presidency |
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| Served one turn in the House of Rep, didnt do much leader of the whig party |
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| Lincoln's initial policy toward the Confederation |
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| Lincoln stated the purpose of the civil war was to preserve the union |
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| Economic conditions in North and South during the war |
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| North-Industry South- Agriculture |
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| Confederate strategy to win the war |
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| Capturing DC control border states, gain England's Support, Expel North troops |
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| Reason the South thought Britan would help them during the war |
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| Britan was dependent on cotton |
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| Official reasons for Andrew Johnson's impeachement |
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| Oppostion to abusing the constitutional system of checks & balances |
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| Reason Reconstruction ended in 1877 |
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| Compromise of 1877, removal of troops in South |
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| 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments |
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| 13th abolished slavery, 14th citizenship, 15th made slaves vote |
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