final Flashcards
What was NOT a cause of British colonization of North America in the 1600s?
Potato famine in Ireland
The first British colony in continental in North America established in 1607
Jamestown
An economic philosophy popular with governments in the 1500s through 1700s. Policies were geared to benefit the government
Merchantilism`
Which colonial economy focused on trade and fishing
New England
A religious event that took place in the British North American colonies from the 1730s through 1760s. It emphasized a personal relationship with God that animates all one’s actions
The Great Awakening
A European intellectual movement that started in 1650 that believed human societies operate according to natural laws that are the same under all conditions and can be discovered by humans using reason and observation
The Enlightenment
What was the most important effect of the Seven Years’ Wa
Britain was broke
What book was published in 1776 written by Thomas Paine which advocated a complete political break with Britain and American independence?
Common Sense
Which battle of 1777 was a turning point in the revolutionary war
Saratoga
Which treaty formally ended the Revolutionary War? Britain agreed to recognize American independence
Treaty if Paris 1783
In 1787 what law established a plan to organize territories gained from the Revolutionary War to prepare them to become states?
Northwest Ordinance
Which was NOT one of the compromises that led to a new U.S Constitution?
Missouri Compromise
In 1803 what case did the U.S Supreme Court deny itself the authority to issue writs of mandamus, but established its power of judicial review
Marbury v Madison
Which U.S foreign policy statement was issued in December 1823 whereby the U.S pledged not to interfere in European affairs, but forbid any attempts at European recolonization of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctorine
What occurred during Jackson’s presidency when South Carolina asserted the right to ban the operation within that state of any federal law that the South Carolina Legislature seemed unconstitutional?
Nullification crisis
religious group sprung form second great awakening
mormons
who is the father of American public education
Horace mann
In 1848, what was the first major meeting of women’s rights activists in the U.S?
Seneca Falls
Where did most of the 4.2 million immigrants who arrived in the U.S between 1840 and 1860 come from?
Germany and ireland
Which treaty ended the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo
What book was published in 1852 and written by Harriet Beecher stove
Uncle Tom’s cabin
Which case in 1857 ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and so had no standing to sue in federal court?
Dredd Sccott
What was NOT a cause of the Civil War
Congress establishment of secondd bank of the us
Which battle in 1863 was a turning point in the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Which region was left devastated by the Civil War?
South
What is not true of the congressional reconstruction
it declared general amnesty except for high ranks cya officials
The terms of the ________ were that Southern Democratic congressmen would cast their votes for Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, and in turn, Hayes would withdraw troops from the South, thus ending Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
What was nota federal law that aided in American settlement of the west
Sherman silver purchase act
