benchmark exam 3rd 9 weeks Flashcards
what were the new england colonies, middle colonies, and southern colonies???
New England: Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire
Middle:New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
Southern:South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia
who were the representative :Virginia House of burgesses
colonists drew upon their claims to traditional English rights and insisted on raising their own representative assemblies. The first popularly elected legislature in the New World.
limited government
is a state in which the power of the monarch is checked by other constitutionally sanctioned institutions. Magna Carta: was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their rights.
self government
government of a country by its own people, esp. after having been a colony. Salutary Neglect: is a term used in the American history, referring to an unofficial and long-lasting 17th- & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England.
federalism
the federal principle or system of government
manifest destiny
Within ten years of its completion, the railroad shipped $50 million worth of freight coast to coast every year.Here was manifest destiny wrought in iron; here were two coasts united; here was an interior open to settlement.
Monroe Doctrine
was a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention
American Revolutionary War
-Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
American Revolutionary War
Taxation Without Representation was the reason why colonist wanted to separate from england because they were not getting any say in parliament
American revolutionary War
Navigation Act was the 1st act to restrict trade in colonies. which led to the stamp act, townshead act, boston massacre, boston tea party, and intolerable act
American Revolutionary war
Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
Strengths & Accomplishments
Government signed a treaty of alliance with France in 1778.
Government successfully waged a war for independence against the British.
Government negotiated an end to the American Revolution in the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783.
Government granted the free inhabitants of each state “all the privileges and immunities of free citizens in the
several states.”
Government provided for the eventual admission of Canada into the Confederation.
Government passed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which allowed the Northwest Territories to organize their
own governments. It allowed the eventual admission to the Union of no more than five states, and no fewer than
three, “on an equal footing with the original states.” The Ordinance also banned slavery from the region.
Government established the Departments of Foreign Affairs, War, Marine, and Treasury.
Weaknesses
Congress had no power to coin money, therefore each state developed its own currency.
Congress was unable to regulate interstate and foreign commerce; some states refused to pay for goods they
purchased from abroad.
Congress was unable to impose taxes; it could only borrow money on credit.
No national court system was established to protect the rights of U.S. citizens.
No executive branch was established to enforce laws.
Amendments could be added only with the approval
of all 13 states.
Approval of 9 of 13 states was required to pass a
law in Congress.
One vote was allotted for each state, despite the
size of its population.
It was just a “firm league of friendship.”
American Revolutionary War
Battle of Yorktown: last battle in the revolutionary ear. washington won the battle and general lord cornwallis was defeated with the help of the french ships
progressive reformers vs robber barons
Reformers crusaded against child labor and for the 8-hour working day. Robber Barons were the rich people that paid there way through society or an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.
social Darwinism
the theory that individwith the help of the french shipuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals
Reconstruction
poll tax: A uniform tax that had to be paid by all adults in the taxed area. Literacy test: was a device to restrict the total number of immigrants while not offending the large element of ethnic voters.
Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws: were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level.
Reconstruction
Solid South: the politically united southern states of the US, traditionally regarded as giving unanimous electoral support to the Democratic Party.
