Benchmark III NoteCards Flashcards
Colonial Characteristics
New England- Puritans
Middle- Quakers, Diverse
Southern-Tobacco , Tar, Founded for god
Types of Governments
Representatives(VHB)-Elect own officials/voice
Manifest Destiny
Inspired many to see western settlement as sacred duty. Rail Roads helped with faster transportation. God giving rule to to move West
Monroe Doctrine
Stated that the us would not tolerate European intervention in the affairs of any ind. nation in America.
American Revolutionary War-Declaration of Ind. Thomas Jefferson
Concludes with a list of complaints the king and asserts the colonies’ right to declare indep.
Self-Salutary Neglect
England neglected US,and we had to self rule ourselves.
Types of Government-Limited(Magna Carta)
prohibited the taking of a person’s life, liberty and property, unless their peer’s deem it necessary. Separate from England.
Federalism
Shared Powerd
Taxation W/O Representation
Reason for creating dec. of independence
Acts…Purpose/why (Nav. Act)
Required the British colonies to sell certain goods only to England.
Articles of confederation-Strengths VS weaknesses
nations first set of laws. not enough power to lead
Battle of Yorktown
Surrendered last Battle. of Amer. Rev.
Progressive Reformers vs Robber Barrons
Time of political, social and economic change in the US
Social Darwinism
Bushing ideas on theories of Charles Darwin “Survival of the fittest” Gov’t shouldn’t interfere
Reconstruction
Rebuild the South
Poll Tax & Literacy Test
Blacks test to vote
Jim Crow Laws
Laws for blacks
Solid South
Southerns remained distrustful for Rep. party and ‘Solidly” supported Democratic Candidates
Plessy v Ferguson
1/8 black. jailed for sitting in a whites only railway car. sued. separate but equal.
Nativism=Immigrants
Opposing Immigrants
Quotas
limited the amount of immigrants could come in, in one group.
KKK
(Klu Klux Klan) used violence, murder, and threats to scare blacks.
Red Scare
People feared that such a Rev. might occur in US
Japanese
Pearl Harbor US put Japanese into international camps
Chinese Exclusion Act
prohibited Chinese immigrants from coming into the US illegally
American System: Henry Clay
Plan to strengthen and unify the south
Abraham Lincoln (wants)
Unite south with the north.
Free slaves
54th Massachusetts
black army fought at fort Wagner and won.
North:Popular Soveighty
people choice to have Free States or Slave States
South:States RIghts
State choice if the states were freed or slaved states
Marbury vs maddison
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.
Spanish-American War
USS marine exploded in Cuban harbor
blamed Spain
declared war
April 1898
Yellow Journalism
Exaggerated and untrue stories published in papers.
meant to sell papers
Lusitania
hit by the U-Boat (Germany) 1915
Woodrow Wilson (14 Points)
US President declared US neutral
League of Nations
Place where nations could negotiate peaceful solutions rather than war
Open Door Policy-China
would leave china open for us trade and commerce
Roaring 20s/GD
Brokers and banks began to call loans that had no money to pay
Consumerism
increasing consumption or gov is economically desirable, people spend a lot of money on good and services.,
US Farmers 1920 over production
new machinery such as tractors allowed farmers to produce more
resulted in overproduction
Harlem Renaissance
a cultural movement in Af. America
Art and Music
FDR(New Deal)
an effort to provide relief and recovery
Liberal (D) vs Conservative (R)
a symbol women who entered the work force to fill the gab
left by vacant men
Dec. 7 1941
Pearl Habor
Big 3-Names
Stalin Roosevelt churchill
Rosie the Riveter
symbol for women to participate in war
