Chapter 9 Flashcards
New England
Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
Middle
New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania
Southern
Maryland, North carolina, South carolina, Georgia, and Virginia
Representatives
The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America. From 1619 until 1643, elected burgesses met in unicameral session with the governor and the royally appointed governor’s Council; after 1643, the burgesses met separately as the lower house of the General Assembly of Virginia
Limited
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 Salutary Neglect
Under salutary neglect, colonists did not feel the influence of the British government and culture. These developments led to a growing sense of American identity, distinct from Britain. People in the colonies had become used to the idea of self-governance and began to think of themselves as British subjects in name only.
After these freedoms were granted, they proved difficult to take back. When the expenses of the Seven Years’ War, also known as the French and Indian War, began to take their toll, Britain reasserted its control over the colonies. Supplies were seized, and men were drafted into the war effort. These policies eased in response to colonial resistance, but the Americans continued to resent the attempt.
Federalism
Federalism is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant (Latin: foedus, covenant) with a governing representative head. divided between NATIONAL & STATE govenmnerts
Manifest Destiny
People believed it was there god given right to move westward and built railroads to create TRADE MARKET
Monroe Doctrine
The 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.
Declaration of Independence
When the colonies wanted to be independence and move away from Great Britain.
Taxation without Representation
a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the British colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution.
Acts
Navigation Act- was passed on 9 October 1651 by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England led by Oliver Cromwell, reinforcing a longstanding principle of government policy that English trade should be carried in English vessels.
Stamp Act- passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.Which lead to the the Boston Massacre.
Tea Act- passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. Caused The Boston Tea Party..
Intolerable act- The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. It was meant to punish the colonists for all the money that was wasted when the tea was thrown in the harbor.
Articles of Confederation
formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, 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. WEAKNESS:
Battle of Yorktown
On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary
Progressive Reformers vs Robber Barons
I.
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is a modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in England and the United States in the 1870s, and which allegedly sought to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.
Reconstruction
refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions.
Poll Tax, Literacy Test
Poll taxes enacted in Southern states between 1889 and 1910 had the effect of disenfranchising many blacks as well as poor whites, because payment of the tax was a prerequisite for voting.
literacy test was a device to restrict the total number of immigrants while not offending the large element of ethnic voters.
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that made whites and blacks have separate facilitates.
Solid South
The term Solid South describes the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates from 1877 (the end of Reconstruction) to 1964 (the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964).
Plessy vs Ferguson
(1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal”
Nativism
Immigration
Quotas
policy of limiting the number of minority group members in a business firm, school, etc.
KKK
a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
Red Scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.
Japanese
Japanese Immigrants came in the U.S and Worked
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
America System - Henry Clay
A plan to strengthen and unify the nation,
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Wanted Slavery.
54th Massachusetts
The 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was one of the first official African American units in the United States during the Civil War.
North: Popular Sovereignty
Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.
South: State’s Rights
In American political discourse, states’ rights refers to political powers reserved for the U.S. state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.
Marbury vs Madison
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
Yellow Journalism
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
Lusitania
ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, in office from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement,
League of Nations
The League of Nations (abbreviated as LN in English, was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
Open Door Policy
statement of principles initiated by the United States (1899, 1900) for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity. The statement was issued in the form of circular notes dispatched by U.S. Secretary of State
Consumerism
purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts.
US Farmer- Overproduction
Industries were way more popular and farmers were a little
Cases of G.D (Stock Market Crash)
Stock Market crash was also known as Black Tuesday, it began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. Key to the Great Depression.
Harlem Renaissance
Cultural Movement (art, music, literature)
Langston Hughes: Best known POET of his time (wrote about how blacks lived)
Zora Neales Hurston: African American AUTHOR who wrote several books about how blacks lived
Marcus Garvey: Encouraged African Americans to go “back to Africa” to find justice and equality
Musicians: Louie Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald.
FDR= New Deal
Democratic President who had a broad smile and optimistic demeanor, he spoke directly to the nation, wasnt afraid to experiment with the gov. and for fixing the great depression he made the New Deal( gov. gives direct help, gov. will provide jobs to help Americans, gov. will regulate (make rules) for business)
Liberal vs Conservatives
Liberal: Noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform
Conservative: disposed to preserve existing conditions, institution or to restore traditional ones, and to limit.
Dec 7 1941
Was the day that the japs. attacked Pearl Harbor
Big 3 (Names)
Prime Minister Clemenceau, President Woodrow Wilson, Prime Minister Lloyd George
Rosie the Riveter
Saying that its time for women to take on the roles of men in the workforce.
