Final Exam review Terms and Examples Flashcards
boycott
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
Tarriff
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.
Strike
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
Ratify
to officially approve a treaty, conduct, or amendment
abolish
end a system, practice, or institution
Ex: the 13th amendment, officially ending slavery :DDD
Amendment
Revision or addition to a bill, law, or condition
Ex: first amendment, granting people right to free speech
Constitution
Supreme law of the land; highest set of laws we have
Spoils system
Act of replacing government officials with supporters (new president)
Ex: Andrew Jackson was the first president to do this
Mercantilism
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.)
Printing press
First machine to print text or pictures
Invented during renaissance
Ex: Mass production of books
Benefited production of the Bible
Slave Codes
Harsh restrictions on slaves to establish social order D:/ Ex: could not vote Go to school Own weapon
Navigation acts
Acts passed in British Parliament designed so that colonies could only trade with England
Committees of Correspondence
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
Judicial review
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
Monroe Doctrine
Message telling congress to stay in your own hemisphere and protect Latin American countries
Kitchen cabinets
Small group of unofficial advisers
Ex: Andrew Jackson had this calling it his “ginger group”
Manifest destiny
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
Gadsden Purchase
When U.S. Achieved the Manifest Destiny, gained New Mexico + Alaska
Underground Railroad
System of safe houses for slaves to get to Canada and get their freedom
Sectionalism
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
Fugitive slave law of 1850
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
