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| This group came to the colonies seeking economic, political, and religious freedom in the 1630s |
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| A joint-stock company searching for gold founded this American colony. |
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| What act was supposed to pay for British troops in the colonies? |
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| After this war, the British demanded the Americans pay for their military support |
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| Slaves who participated in this rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 hoped to flee to Florida where the Spanish offered freedom |
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| This movement of the 1740s led to splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches |
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| New York Conspiracy of 1741 |
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| This was a supposed plot by slaves and poor whites to level New York City with a series of fires |
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| What was included in the Constitution to settle the question of how slaves would be counted? |
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| In what event did debt-ridden farmers attack courts in western Massachusetts? |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| This document gave government no power to levy taxes |
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| What document ended the American Revolution? |
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| What document established the electoral college to elect the president? |
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| American Colonization Society |
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| This society’s goal was to transport former slaves back to Africa |
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| According to this Court decision, the Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional acts |
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| This concept includes the idea that women should be educated to raise their children to be good citizens |
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| This was a victory for antislavery advocates because it closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery |
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| What belief has faith in human capacity to achieve a better life on earth through conscious acts of will? |
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| This artistic movement is best known for its landscapes |
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| The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in |
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| This justice tended to promote business enterprise |
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| This Supreme Court decision repealed the Missouri Compromise |
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| Which event exposed tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry in Virginia |
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| This man defended liberty of conscience because he said the state was an improper and ineffectual agency in matters of the spirit |
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| What women did Massachusetts ban because she did not follow Puritan beliefs? |
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| Who asked the founding fathers to “remember the ladies”? |
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| Probably formed before continental separation |
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| Seen as the springboard for the Emancipation Proclamation and also halted European intervention. |
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| Fragmentation of religious faiths furthered by revivals where people preached things such as "hellfire and damnation!" in Western New York |
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the first ironclads CSS Virginia and USS Monitor fought to a bloody standstill.
After four hours of brutal fighting, the battle ended in a draw. Monitor prevented Virginia from destroying the rest of the Union fleet stationed at Hampton Roads, giving the Union a moral victory. |
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| War for slavery and for the viability of the Union and strength of democracy itself. Ended slavery. |
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| Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. Presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood. |
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| California admitted as free state, territory disputed by TX and NM to be surrendered to NM, abolition of the slave trade (but not slavery) in DC, the remaineder of the Mexican Cession area to be formed into the territories of NM and Utah without restriction on slavery hence open to popular sovereignty, TX to receive 10 million from the federal govn't as compensation, and a more stringent fugitive slave law. |
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| Constitutional Convention (1787) |
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| Met in Philly to deal with commerce and the AoC. Done in complete secrecy and shaped the Constitution. |
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| Relying on reason rather than revelation and on science rather than the Bible. Rejected the concept of sins and Christ's divinity, but still believed in a supreme being and moral behavior. Both believed by Jefferson and Franklin. |
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| Petitioned for improved conditions in asylums which led to improved conditions. She was appointed superintendent of women's nurses for the Union forces and made nursing a respected profession. |
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| Prohibited American merchant ships from sailing to any foreign port in hopes that the British would stop violating the rights of neutral nations rather than lose US trade. (BY TJ). |
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| Used to describe the administration period of Monroe due to emerging nationalism. |
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| Blacks that went on a westward flood after being emancipated. |
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| Wrote "The Significance of the Frontier In American History" claiming that the US owed the survival of its democratic tradition to the rise of the west, not the east. |
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| Discussion of grievances of states and the seeking of redress for their wrongs. Demanded fincial assistance from Washignton to compensate for lost trade and proposed constitutional amendments required a two thirds vote in congress before and embargo could be imposed, new states admitted, or war declared. |
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| Henry Clay's American System |
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| A strong banking system which would provide easy and abundant credit. Advocated a protective tariff whose revenue would provide funds for a network of roads and canals. |
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| Belief that the US had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across the breadth of North America. |
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| Idea that looked upon trade, colonies, and the accumulation of wealth as the basis for a country's military and political strength. |
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| Said that the US was not to considered as subjects for future colonization any any European powers and that the US was opposed to attempts by any European power to interfere in the affairs of any republic in the Western Hemisphere. |
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| A paved highway and major route to the west extending more than thousands of miles from Maryland to Illinois. |
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| Granted limited self govrn't to the developing territory and prohibited slavery in the region (between Great Lakes and the Ohio River). |
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| Members of the Religious Society of Friends that believed in the equality of all men and women, nonviolence, and resistence to miliary service. Also believed that religious authority was found in each peson's private soul and not in the Bible or any outside source. In England they were widely persecuted and jailed for their beliefs. |
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| Since southern states were believed by Lincoln to have never legally withdrawn from the Union they would make the 10% plan. The process after the Civil War to recover the South. |
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| Scottish textile manufacturer who founded the communal society in New Harmony, Indiana. Little Harmony sand in morass of contradiction and confusion. |
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| Loyalty to a particular region. |
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| Made it illegal for newspaper ediots to criticize either president or Congress and imposed heavy penalties for violators. |
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| Debate on the nature of the federal Union under the Constitution. One part said that any state could defy or leave the Union. |
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| First secretary of state and a founding father. Nationalist who called for the Constitution. Killed by Burr. |
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| French American Alliance of 1778 |
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| Defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future. |
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| Kentucky and Virgina resolutions |
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| Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures resolved not to abide by Alien and Sedition Acts. They argued that the Acts were unconstitutional and therefore void, and in doing so, they argued for states' rights and strict constructionism of the Constitution. They were written secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, respectively. |
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| President George Washington's Farewell Address |
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| Announced his intention to decline a third term in office. He also reflects on the emerging issues of the American political landscape in 1796, expresses his support for the government eight years after the adoption of the Constitution, defends his administration's record, and gives valedictory advice to the American people. "To the people of the United States.." |
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| Political movement that addresses ideas, impulses, and issues stemming from modernization of American society. Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, it established much of the tone of American politics throughout the first half of the century. |
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| The notion of separate spheres dictated that men, based primarily on their biological makeup (as well as the will of God) deserved power in the public sphere, that of the economy, commerce, politics, etc. whereas women, for similar reasons, were confined to the private sphere—domestic life and all that implied, such as child-rearing, housekeeping, and religious education. |
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| South Carolina Exposition and Protest |
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| Protest against the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations. The document stated that if the tariff was not repealed, South Carolina would secede. It stated also Calhoun's Doctrine of nullification, i.e., the idea that a state has the right to reject federal law, first introduced by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in their Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. |
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| South Carolina Exposition and Protest |
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| Protest against the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations. The document stated that if the tariff was not repealed, South Carolina would secede. It stated also Calhoun's Doctrine of nullification, i.e., the idea that a state has the right to reject federal law, first introduced by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in their Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. |
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