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| British proclamation that said no colonist could settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
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| Voyage that bought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America. |
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| A form of debt bondage; mainly used by wealthy colonists and poor people wishing to move to the New World. The wealthy person would pay for their passage in exchange for a set amount of years' work. |
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| Wrote "Common Sense", a book that basically said "we don't have to follow the king, we can do what we want!" |
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| Colonist that protested against the British because of unfair taxes |
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| Who was a supporter of Americans (colonists) during the Revolutionary War? |
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| Laws passed by Britain which caused taxes on imported goods. Led to the Boston Tea Party |
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The Treaty of Paris
(there are a bajillion but this one has to do with the Revolutionary War) |
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| Ended the Revolutionary War. |
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| A form of government in which the citizens rule through elected representatives. |
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| Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation |
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Unity lacked
2/3 needed to pass
Each state only had one vote
and like fifty thousand more GO LOOK EM UP. |
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| What are the three main branches of the US Government? What do they represent? (like, say the state was a branch, then who rules the state? The governor.) |
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Executive: President
Legislative: Congress/House of Representatives
Judicial: Supreme Court |
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| What was the First Amendment to the Constitution? |
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| It gave (white) men the right to freedom of speech, religion, the press, and politics. |
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| 36'30* agreement that the states abouve the 36'30 line would be free, those below would be slave states. This exempted Missouri, which was also a slave state. |
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| Result of the Indian Removal Act in which Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed from their homes and forced across a 300 mile journey to reservations. Many Cherokees died. |
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| Formal withdrawal from the Union. |
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| Allows people to vote on issues. In the context of slavery, it came from the Kansas/Nebraska act and allowed Kansans/Nebraskans to decide whether or not to allow slavery. |
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| Southern States after their secession in 1861 |
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| Dredd Scott was a slave that went to court to fight for his freedom after living freely for years until his owner died. He lost his case, and because of it all other acts (such as the Missouri Compromise, Kansas/Nebraska Act, etc.) were deemed unconstitutional. |
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| Why was abolishing slavery "unconstitutional"? |
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| Because slavery is the legal ownership of another human being. Our possessions are protected by the Bill of Rights, and a slave is technically a possession. In order to change this, an amendment would have to be added. |
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| Allowed the citizens of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska popular sovereignty. |
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| Why was the South so dependant on slavery? |
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| Slaves did all of the cotton picking/producing, and cotton was the main industry in the South. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves. |
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| What was Lincoln's main goal in the Civil War? |
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| While Lincoln opposed slavery, abolishing it was not his immediate goal. Lincoln just wanted to keep the peace and the Union together. |
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| What were Northern advantages during the Civil War? |
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| The North controlled pretty much all of the industry, factories, imports, etc. |
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| What was the South's main advantage in the Civil War? |
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| Many people had grown up hunting, so their weapons training was much better than most in the North. |
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| System by which a landowner would give someone else land, tools, and seeds in exchange for part of their profits. |
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| Why was sharecropping a cycle of poverty? |
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| By the end of the farming season, the sharecropper would not have enough money to repay the owner because the owner also took a lot of their crops. Therefore, the sharecropper would be forced to work for the landowner again the next year. |
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| KKK Violence during Reconstruction: WHY? |
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| The KKK wanted to prevent African Americans from voting, which resulted in lots of violence (lynching, fires, etc). |
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The BIG THING: It ended Reconstruction.
How? By removing federal troops from the south, giving the south money to help rebuild their economy, and agreeing to elect Hayes as President. |
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| What was the 14th Amendment? |
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| It granted African Americans citizenship. |
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| What was the 15th Amendment? |
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| It gave African Americans the right to vote. |
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| Weaker nation controlled by a stronger nation. Colonization. |
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