GP 2 + GP 3 Material Flashcards
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence is…
Thomas Jefferson
Delegates met in Sep 1774 in Pennsylvania to respond to the Coercive Acts. This meeting was called the
First Continental Congress
Who fought in the French and Indian War and why?
Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley
When boycotts on the Stamp Act occurred…
Parliament repealed the act
Battle of Saratoga
This battle convinced the France and Spain to side with America during the Revolutionary War
What was the last battle in the Revolutionary War?
The Battle of Yorktown
What was the Treaty of Paris?
A treaty recognizing America as a free country
The Coercive Acts
Boston Port Act
Massachusetts Gov. Act
Quartering Act
Proc of 1763 declared
Colonists couldn’t settle west of the Appalachians
What was the main point of Hamilton’s financial plan?
Protecting the rights of states against a powerful national government
What was the message of the Second Great Awakening?
All people could attain salvation
Temperance Movement addressed
alcoholism
US military strategy for the war with Mexico was to
fortify Texas and wait for the Mexican army to attack
Treaty of Guadalupe Higaldo
Mexico had to cede 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States
Wilmot Proviso
an addendum to another bill that prohibited slavery in state territory gained from Mexico
Freeport Doctrine
Stephen Douglas’s argument that people could keep slavery out of a territory by refusing to pass laws supporting it
Jay’s Treaty
States that American merchants would not be discriminated against when they traded with Britain
gave them the ‘most-favored’ nation status
Oliver Perry
arranged for the construction of a fleet on the coast of Lake Erie in Ohio
The Treaty of Ghent
ended the War of 1812
The Monroe Doctrine’s main message was
The Americas were off-limits to future European colonization
Adam-Onis Treaty of 1819
gave Florida to the US
Missouri joining the US caused disruption because
the balance between free states and slave states was broken
The Trail of Tears was started by
Martin Van Buren
President Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the US by
removing all federal deposits and giving them to state banks
What political party emerged in opposition to Jackson?
the Whigs
