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Benchmark III NoteCards Flashcards

1
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Colonial Characteristics

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New England- Puritans
Middle- Quakers, Diverse
Southern-Tobacco , Tar, Founded for god

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Types of Governments

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Representatives(VHB)-Elect own officials/voice

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Manifest Destiny

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Inspired many to see western settlement as sacred duty. Rail Roads helped with faster transportation. God giving rule to to move West

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Monroe Doctrine

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Stated that the us would not tolerate European intervention in the affairs of any ind. nation in America.

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American Revolutionary War-Declaration of Ind. Thomas Jefferson

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Concludes with a list of complaints the king and asserts the colonies’ right to declare indep.

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Self-Salutary Neglect

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England neglected US,and we had to self rule ourselves.

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Types of Government-Limited(Magna Carta)

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prohibited the taking of a person’s life, liberty and property, unless their peer’s deem it necessary. Separate from England.

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Federalism

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Shared Powerd

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Taxation W/O Representation

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Reason for creating dec. of independence

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Acts…Purpose/why (Nav. Act)

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Required the British colonies to sell certain goods only to England.

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Articles of confederation-Strengths VS weaknesses

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nations first set of laws. not enough power to lead

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Battle of Yorktown

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Surrendered last Battle. of Amer. Rev.

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Progressive Reformers vs Robber Barrons

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Time of political, social and economic change in the US

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Social Darwinism

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Bushing ideas on theories of Charles Darwin “Survival of the fittest” Gov’t shouldn’t interfere

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Reconstruction

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Rebuild the South

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16
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Poll Tax & Literacy Test

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Blacks test to vote

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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws for blacks

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Solid South

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Southerns remained distrustful for Rep. party and ‘Solidly” supported Democratic Candidates

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Plessy v Ferguson

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1/8 black. jailed for sitting in a whites only railway car. sued. separate but equal.

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Nativism=Immigrants

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Opposing Immigrants

21
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Quotas

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limited the amount of immigrants could come in, in one group.

22
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KKK

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(Klu Klux Klan) used violence, murder, and threats to scare blacks.

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Red Scare

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People feared that such a Rev. might occur in US

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Japanese

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Pearl Harbor US put Japanese into international camps

25
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Chinese Exclusion Act

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prohibited Chinese immigrants from coming into the US illegally

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American System: Henry Clay

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Plan to strengthen and unify the south

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Abraham Lincoln (wants)

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Unite south with the north.

Free slaves

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54th Massachusetts

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black army fought at fort Wagner and won.

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North:Popular Soveighty

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people choice to have Free States or Slave States

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South:States RIghts

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State choice if the states were freed or slaved states

31
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Marbury vs maddison

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Chief Justice John Marshall stated that the appointees were entitled to their commissions but that the US sum. Court didn’t have the authority under constitution.

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Spanish-American War

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USS marine exploded in Cuban harbor
blamed Spain
declared war
April 1898

33
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Yellow Journalism

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Exaggerated and untrue stories published in papers.

meant to sell papers

34
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Lusitania

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hit by the U-Boat (Germany) 1915

35
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Woodrow Wilson (14 Points)

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US President declared US neutral

36
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League of Nations

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Place where nations could negotiate peaceful solutions rather than war

37
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Open Door Policy-China

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would leave china open for us trade and commerce

38
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Roaring 20s/GD

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Brokers and banks began to call loans that had no money to pay

39
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Consumerism

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increasing consumption or gov is economically desirable, people spend a lot of money on good and services.,

40
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US Farmers 1920 over production

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new machinery such as tractors allowed farmers to produce more
resulted in overproduction

41
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Harlem Renaissance

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a cultural movement in Af. America

Art and Music

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FDR(New Deal)

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an effort to provide relief and recovery

43
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Liberal (D) vs Conservative (R)

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a symbol women who entered the work force to fill the gab

left by vacant men

44
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Dec. 7 1941

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Pearl Habor

45
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Big 3-Names

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Stalin Roosevelt churchill

46
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Rosie the Riveter

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symbol for women to participate in war

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