Chapter 31: The Americas in the Age of Independence

Question 1

What was Fatt Hing Chin’s story

Answer 1

He was a boring dude in China, who decided that it would be really fun if he went and became a gold miner in California. He went there, became usccessful,

Question 2

After gaining Independence, what did the United States face the need to do?

Answer 2

To connstruct a machinery go government.

Question 3

The rebellious colonists of the United States drafted what?

Answer 3

They drafted a constitution that entrusted responsibility for general issues to a federal government, reserved authority for local issues for individual states, and pushed for the admission of states

Question 4

What did the Declaration of Independence promote, and what happened withit

Answer 4

It promoted equality of all people, but most states restricted that, and limited the amount of votes a man could get

Question 5

While working to settle constitutional issues, residents of the United states also began to do what?

Answer 5

expand rapidly to the west

Question 6

How did the United States get new lands?

Answer 6

Britain ceded alll of their lands to the United States after the American revolution so it was between the Appalachian Mountains and the Missisippi

Question 7

Why did Napoleon his lands?

Answer 7

Because France needed money to protect itself, so he gave the Louisiana Territory

Question 8

Who were the explorers who wanted to explore America

Answer 8

Louis Meriwether and William Clark

Question 9

Westward Expanison brought settlers and government forces into conflict with who?

Answer 9

Indegenous people

Question 10

Whose support did the Indigenous people have?

Answer 10

They had the support from the british,in Canada

Question 11

What was some persecution of the Native Americans?

Answer 11

The Indian Removal Act of 1830-the United States government determined to move all the native Americans west of the Mississippi. The Trail of Tears.

Question 12

Which Native American tribes possesed firearms?

Answer 12

Sioux, Comache, Pawnee

Question 13

What weapons aided the US in the fight against the Native Americans?

Answer 13

Gatling Gun

Question 14

What was one symbolic battle that took place with the US and the indegenous people?

Answer 14

It was the Battle at Wounded Knee Creek. In South Dakota. THe Sioux adopted the Ghost dance, that scared many American people. so, US cavalry forces chased the Sioux who were fleeing to safety in the South Dakota Badlands. A Sioux man accidently shot off a gun, which scared a lot of poepl

Question 15

Westward expanison also generated tension between which two territories

Answer 15

Between the United States and Mexico

Question 16

What did Mexico include during that time>

Answer 16

It included Texas, California, and NEw Mexico

New Mexcio is the American Southwest at this point

Question 17

Texas declared independence from Mexcio in 1836, and the United States accepted the territory as a state in 1845. This rapidly escalated into the what?

Answer 17

Mexican- American War. It was known as la intervencon noteamericano, la guerra del 47

Question 18

Treaty of Guadalupe:

Answer 18

United States took possession of approximately 1/2 of Mexico’s territories, paying a mere 15 million in exchange

Question 19

How did Manifest Destiy create problems within the republic?

Answer 19

Slavery

1. The Enlightenment ideal of equlity clearly suggested that the appropirate policy was to abolish slavery, but the framers of the Constitution recognized the sancity of private property including slaves

Question 20

Why did slavery continue

Answer 20

Well, for starters, opponents had dreamed the institution would die iwth th decline of tobacco, but it rose with cotton and indigo

Question 21

Missouri COmpromise of 1820

Answer 21

As the numbers of slaves grew, the anitslavery forces fought to limit the spread of slavery to new territories

Question 22

The election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency did what?

Answer 22

Ignited a spark between the states. Lincoln was an explicity sectional candidate that was convinced slavery was immoral and was commited to free terrtiories without slaves

Question 23

Although slavery stood at the center of the conflict, the civil war revolved around issues such as

Answer 23

Nature of the Union, States rights as opposed to the federal government, and the imperatives of a budding industrial capitalist

Question 24

What isolated the southern sates from the Union’s development?

Answer 24

The Cultivation of Cototn as a cash crop that had islated the southern states from the economic adevelopment s the rest o f the United States experieneced

Question 25

What did products also explain about the south

Answer 25

most of the products they consumed were from Britian, so obvi..they didn’t think that they needed the other crops

Question 26

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 26

made the abolition of slavery an explicit goal of the war. So the southerners finally had something to fight for

Question 27

Did Canada fight a war for indeoendence?

Answer 27

No. cause they are peacful.

Question 28

How did Canada’s independence come about?

Answer 28

It came when the Canadians and the British government agreed on a general principal of autonomy. THe distinctiveness of the two dominant ethnic groups, the British Canadians and theFrench Canadians ensured that the process of building an independent society would not be smooth

Question 29

What really subdued the people in Canada and caused them to come together?

Answer 29

Feers of US expansion

Question 30

What was the history of Canada?

Answer 30

It was originally colnized by trappers and settler s form both Britain and Frnce, the colony of NEw France passed into the British Empire.

Question 31

How was French culture incorporated into Cnada?

Answer 31

The Roamn Catholic church was recognized.

Question 32

War of 1812

Answer 32

Ethnic divisions and political differences could easily of splintered canada, but the war of 1812 stimulated a sense of unity against an external threat

Question 33

Why did the United States declare war on Great Britian?

Answer 33

Becase of encroachments on the US rights during the Napoleonic wars. Canada was one of the Front lines, nad hte British colony of Canada formed one of the front lines durig the war

Question 34

Who was George Lambton?

Answer 34

Durham report, issued by him. e was the first earl of Durham and hte recent governor- general and lord high commissioner of Canada. He advocated self government

Question 35

British Norht America Act of 1867 joined

Answer 35

Quebec, ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswik and recognized them as teh Dominion of Canada. Other provinces joined the Dominion later.

Question 36

What did each province have/

Answer 36

It had its own seat of government, provincial legislature and lieutenant governnor representing the British crown

Question 37

What was teh Canadian Federal Government like?

Answer 37

It had a house of commons and an appointed seanate.

Question 38

John A. Macdonald became the first prime minister of Canada, and he moved to incorporate all of…into the Domnion

Answer 38

British North American. He negotiated the Purchase of the Northwest Territories.

Question 39

What did Simon Bolivar want?

Answer 39

He worked for the establishment of a large confederation that would provide Latin America with the political, military, and ecnomic strength to resist encroachment by foreign powes

Question 40

What did the Creole elites do?

Answer 40

They established republics with written constitutions for the newly independent states of Latin America, yet constitutions were much more difficult to frame in Latin America, than in the United States

Question 41

What did Latin America not have?

Answer 41

They did not have enough experience governing.Before gaining independence..

Question 42

Creole elits dominated the newly independent states and effectively did what?

Answer 42

Prevented mass participation in public affairs. less than 5 percent of the male population was active in Latin American politics in the ninteenth century

Question 43

What did Latin American elites divide themselves into?

Answer 43

Different camps as liberals or conservatives, centralists, or federalists, secularists,or Roman Catholics

Question 44

What was one thing that elites agreed on?

Answer 44

The policy of claiming American land for agriculture and ranching. That meant pushing aside indegenous peoples and establishing htemselves there.

Question 45

Where was conflict most intense?

Answer 45

It was most intese in Argentina and Chile

Question 46

What did division and discord in the newly independent states help? (who)(

Answer 46

It helped the Caudilios or regional military leaders come to power in much of Latin America. The wars of independence had lasted well over a decade and they provided latin America with military heros

Question 47

Juan Manuel de Rosas

Answer 47

ruled from 1829-1852 an Argentina bady divided between the cattle herding and guacho societies

Question 48

Rosas emerged form the world of cattle ranching and th ehurban elite of ____ which city

Answer 48

Buenos Aires

Question 49

What did Rosas call for?

Answer 49

He called for regional autonomy in an attempt to reconcile competing interests, but he worked to centralized the government he usurped.

Question 50

What was Rosas called?

Answer 50

He was called the Argentine ENro and they accused him of launching a reign of terror to stifle opposition. One wrter compiled a chart that counted the number of his victims

Question 51

What did Rosas do?

Answer 51

He restored order, in doing so, he made terror a tule of the government and he ruled as a despot through his own personal army

Question 52

How did Rosas embody winning personality traits

Answer 52

He had his physical strength and machismo. Al

Question 53

What did Caudillos do that gave rise to opposition>

Answer 53

Limited freedom and undermined republican ideals , it sometimes also gave rise to an opposition that aimed to over throw them

Question 54

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