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11th Grade
01/18/2014

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Reasons for Settlement New England Colonies
Definition
religious freedom
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Reasons for Settlement Southern Colonies
Definition
economic opportunity
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Reasons for Settlement Middle Colonies
Definition
religious freedom & economic opportunity
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New England Colonies
Definition
mass.,New Hampshire,CT, &Rhode Island
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Middle Colonies
Definition
PA,New York,, New jersey, Delware
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Southern Colonies
Definition
VA, NC,SC,MD, GA
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Economy of New England Colonies
Definition
lumbering,fishing, small farming,manufacturing
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Economy of Southern Colonies
Definition
farming
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Economy of Middle Colonies
Definition
commerce, trade, small scale farming
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Covenant Community
Definition
puritan community based on puritan beliefs and the mayflower compact
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Mayflower Compact
Definition
basis of the puritan people
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House of Burgesses
Definition
first elected assembly in the new world
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Cash Crop/Tobacco
Definition
main crop sold for money/profit
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Ownership of Land
Definition
major dispute between indians and settlers
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Virginia Co. of London/Jamestown
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founded jamestown as a business venture
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First Slaves 1619/Jamestown
Definition
worked on tobacco plantations
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Indentured Servants
Definition
worked for a period of time to pay for passage to the new world
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Social Structure of Southern Colonies
Definition
based of family status and ownership of land
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Social Structure of Northern Colonies
Definition
based on religious standing
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Social Structure of Middle Colonies
Definition
more tolerant, diverse, rise of the middle class
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Great Awakening
Definition
religious movement becomes social fondation of the revolution
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Middle Passage
Definition
part of the triangle trade that moved slaves from africa to the new world
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Development of Slavery in the American Colonies
Definition
because of large scale farming in the south
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Quakers
Definition
more tolerant of others
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Why slavery did not flourish in New England and Middle Colonies?
Definition
short growing seasons, climate,soil & manufaturing
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John Locke influence on the Declaration of Independence
Definition
natural rights & social contract
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Declaration of Independence
Definition
written by thomas jefferson, influenced by locke and paine
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Common Sense
Definition
written by thomas paine, built support for independence from england
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Proclamation of 1763
Definition
banned settlement west of the appalachian mountains
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Stamp Act
Definition
placed taxes on ALL written material
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Lexington & Concord
Definition
opening shots of the revolution
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Loyalist
Definition
colonists that remained loyal to britian
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Benjamin Franklin
Definition
negotiated a treaty of alliance with france
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VA Statute for Religious Freedom/1st Amendment
Definition
jefferson begins idea of religious freedom and influences the 1st amendment
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Articles of Confederation
Definition
1st attempt at a constution (was weak)
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James Madison
Definition
father of the constitution
wrote the VA plan
wrote most of the bill of rights
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Three-Fifths Compromise
Definition
counted only 3/5 of the slave population cmpared toward the whole state population for a representation
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Anti-Federalists
Definition
wanted bill of rights and the state to have the power
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Federalists
Definition
favored strong central gov't
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Alexander Hamilton/Federalist Supporters
Definition
supported by wealthy merchants and bankers
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Louisiana Purchase
Definition
purchased from france and made U.S. 2x bigger
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Election of 1800
Definition
1st time power peacefully transfered from one party to another
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Results of the French & Indian War
Definition
british tax colonists , proclamation of 1763, british win french land
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Join or Die Cartoon/Unity among the Colonies
Definition
done to unite the colonies
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Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Definition
no power to tax ,no milatary, no excutive
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Great Compromise
Definition
creates the house rep. (population) & the senate (equal vote)
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Marbury v. Madison/Judicial Rev.
Definition
established judicial review , courts power to say something unconsitutional
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Gibbons v. Ogden
Definition
Gov't role in the economy
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Eli Whitney/Cotton Gin
Definition
leads to the spread of slavery
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US Gains after War of 1812
Definition
oregon territory, people move into florida, and boundaries reestablished
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
the idea that the U.S. should be from the atlantic to the pacific
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
warned europe to say out of the U.S. and that they won't interfere in europe's affairs
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Missouri Compromise
Definition
Maine= free
missouri= Slave
No slavery above 36,30 paraellel
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Age of the Common Man
Definition
jackson increased voter participation
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Spoils System
Definition
reward supporters with jobs
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Political Parties that emerged after the break-up of the Federalists
Definition
whigs & know nothings
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Increased participation of politics
Definition
more people voting
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Nullification Crisis
Definition
SC nullifies tariff act of 1812
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South’s view on Tariffs
Definition
hate it
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North’s view on Tariffs
Definition
liked them
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Rise of Sectional Tensions
Definition
dealt with spread of slavery
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Definition
best selling book by harriett stowe,made abolitionist mad
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Popular Sovereignty
Definition
people vote on issue of slavery
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Frederick Douglas
Definition
black abolitionist
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Election of 1860
Definition
lincoln is elected, south leaves as a result
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Ft Sumter
Definition
in SC opening shots of the civil war
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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
freed slaves in rebeling states, issue after Antietam
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Gettysburg Address/Declaration of Independence
Definition
lincoln's vision of the U.S as one nation
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Lincoln’s Reconstruction Policy
Definition
quickly restore the union, more forgiving
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
confiderate Genral and surrender to grant at appomattox
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Gettysburg
Definition
turning point of the civil war
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Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
increased westward movement, completed with immigrant help, chinese & irish
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14th Amendment
Definition
citizenship, equal protection of rights, dur process
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Radical Republicans
Definition
wanted to punish the south
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Election of 1876
Definition
Ends the reconstruction with the compromise of 1877
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Westward Movement
Definition
trans continental railroad , immigration, homestead act
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Push Factor/Irish Immigration
Definition
potato famine
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Robert E. Lee’s view of the U.S. after the Civil War
Definition
accept defeat and move on
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American & Native American interaction during Westward Movement
Definition
violence in the midwest
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Immigration late 1800’s early 1900’s
Definition
from north & west europe before 1871, from south & east europe after 1871
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Industrial Growth/North
Definition
industry grows in the north
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Urban City living conditions
Definition
bad, poor and rich did not live side by side
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Henry Ford
Definition
assembly line
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Henry Bessemer
Definition
steel process
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Laissez-faire Capitalism
Definition
Gov't hands off approach business
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
established the idea of separate but equal
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
believed in vocational education
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W.E.B. DuBois
Definition
believed in political equality and helpped form NAACP
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Progressive Era
Definition
tried to solve problems caused by industialization
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Assembly Line
Definition
henry ford
Term
Jim Crow Laws
Definition
laws that separated the races
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Ida B. Wells
Definition
led an anti-lynching campaign
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Workers lives/Progressive Era
Definition
dangerous working conditions/ low wages
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Goals of Progressive Movement
Definition
eliminated social in justice, Gov't regulation, increased poll participation
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US Immigration Policies/Progressive Era
Definition
reduced the number of people from south & east europe
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Industrialization in North/leads to more immigration to cities
Definition
people move to cities for work
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Result of Spanish Am. War
Definition
Us gains P.R, Philippines, and Guam
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Dollar Diplomacy
Definition
encourage investment in foreign countries, latin america
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Open Door Policy
Definition
fair competition for trade in china
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Labor Union Membership/Progressive Era
Definition
more people joined unions because of bad conditions and low wages
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