Final Exam review Terms and Examples

Question 1

boycott

Answer 1

refusal to buy or use goods

Ex: Tea act, when British parliament taxed colonists on tea to help the BEIC, and the colonists threw their hand down and DiDNT GET TEA :OOOO

Question 2

Tarriff

Answer 2

TAX placed on goods imported/exported from one country to another

Ex: tariff of Abominations, made so North industry could florish and americans would want to buy more products from the U.S.

Question 3

Strike

Answer 3

refusal of work
Ex: When the Lowell girls fought for better working conditions, shorter hours, ect. and they created a union to protest, going on strike

Question 4

Ratify

Answer 4

to officially approve a treaty, conduct, or amendment

Question 5

abolish

Answer 5

end a system, practice, or institution

Ex: the 13th amendment, officially ending slavery :DDD

Question 6

Amendment

Answer 6

Revision or addition to a bill, law, or condition

Ex: first amendment, granting people right to free speech

Question 7

Constitution

Answer 7

Supreme law of the land; highest set of laws we have

Question 8

Spoils system

Answer 8

Act of replacing government officials with supporters (new president)
Ex: Andrew Jackson was the first president to do this

Question 9

Mercantilism

Answer 9

States under a country were meant to support the country succeed.

Ex: colonies were meant to help New England (their resources, what grown them, cotton, ect.)

Question 10

Printing press

Answer 10

First machine to print text or pictures
Invented during renaissance

Ex: Mass production of books
Benefited production of the Bible

Question 11

Slave Codes

Answer 11

Harsh restrictions on slaves to establish social order
D:/
Ex: could not vote 
Go to school 
Own weapon

Question 12

Navigation acts

Answer 12

Acts passed in British Parliament designed so that colonies could only trade with England

Question 13

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 13

After Boston Massacre Samel Adams created Committees of Correspondence
Thomas Paine wrote of the bad things England did to colonists in the letters
The letters were sent throughout the town

Question 14

Judicial review

Answer 14

Idea Supreme Court HAS right to decide whether laws/actions of congress are constitutional or not in judicial branch (of Supreme Court)
Ex: Marbury v. Madison used to establish judicial review

Question 15

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 15

Message telling congress to stay in your own hemisphere and protect Latin American countries

Question 16

Kitchen cabinets

Answer 16

Small group of unofficial advisers

Ex: Andrew Jackson had this calling it his “ginger group”

Question 17

Manifest destiny

Answer 17

Belief U.S. Was meant to expand coast to coast to the pacific
Ex: The U.S. went to war with Mexico to gain land for the belied of the manifest destiny

Question 18

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 18

When U.S. Achieved the Manifest Destiny, gained New Mexico + Alaska

Question 19

Underground Railroad

Answer 19

System of safe houses for slaves to get to Canada and get their freedom

Question 20

Sectionalism

Answer 20

Different lifestyles, Social Structures, customs, political values in north vs. south.
Ex: back then, it was rare to say you’re American, you’d usually say you were a “northerner” or “southerner” because of the amount of sectionalism in America

Question 21

Fugitive slave law of 1850

Answer 21

Law that said if you caught a slave who ran from their owner, you had to turn them into the police or otherwise you’d get jailed. Northerners were extremely angry about this