Mid Term Flashcards

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Jamestown and Plymouth. main motivation? adventurers wanted to stake English claim to prevent Spanish from taking over all of North America

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first English colonie

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labor system where people paid for their passage to the New world by working for an employer for a certain number of years

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indentured servants

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European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

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enlightenment

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1st president of the U.S., commander-in-chief of the continental army during American Revolutionary Wat, and one of the Foundig Fathers of the U.S.

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George Washington

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First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War

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Battle of Lexington

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A founding father of the u.s. author of the common sense, was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and Revolutionary

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Thomas Paine

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A founding father of the u.s. leader of the movement that later became the American Revolution and was an architect that helped shape political culture of the U.S.

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Samuel Adams

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former after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became that United States of America

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continental army

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adopted by continental congress on November 5, 1777. Served as u.s. 1st constitution

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Articles of Comfederation

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statement adopted by comtinental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4,1777. announced the 13 American colonies

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Declaration of Independence

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name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enrollment of tax collections and judgements for debt

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shays’ rebellion

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u.s. federal statue adopted on Septembr 24, 1789 in the first session of the first congress. established federal judiciary of the u.s.

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judiciary act of 1789

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an act of best of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies

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separation of powers

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collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. promoting the ratification of the u.s. constitution

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the federalist

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American statesman, political theorist, and the 4th president of the u.s. aka “Father of the Constitution for drafting the u.s. constitution.

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James Madison

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a Founding Father of the u.s. chief staff aside to General George Washington. Founder of the Federalist Party

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Alexander Hamilton

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a political and diplomatic episode on 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the u.s. and republican France

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XYZ affair

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a tax protest in the u.s. beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington

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Whiskey Rebellion

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American soldier, politician, and diplomat who negotiated Pinckney’s treaty

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Thomas Pinckney

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landmark u.s. Supreme Court case in which the court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the u.s. under Article III of the constitution.

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Marbury vs. Madison

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American lawyer and Founding Father, and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. elected 2nd Vice President of the u.s.

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Thomas Jefferson

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Native American leader of the Shawnee and large tribal confederacy which opposed the u.s. during ________ War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812

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7th president of the u.s. elected to the u.s. House of Representatives and the to u.s. senate

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Andrew Jackson

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American statesman who served as the 6th president of the u.s. from 1825 to 1829

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John Quincy Adams

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u.s. foreign policy regarding the domination of the American continent of 1823
Monroe Doctrine
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invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794, used to easily separate cotton fibers from their seeds
Cotton Gin
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first tariff passed by congress with an explicit function of protecting u.s. manufacturing items from foreign competition
Tariff of 1816
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includes Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments
presidents cabinet
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ran through New York for about 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo. Built to create navigable water route from NYC to Great Lakes
Erie Canal
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9th u.s president, an American military officer and politician. last president born as British subject
William Henry Harrison
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10th u.s. president. elected Vice President on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison and became president after his running mate's death in April 1841
John Tyler
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a founding father of the u.s., signer of the treaty of Paris and first Chief Justice of the u.s.
John Jay
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American politician who served as 8th president of the u.s.
Martin Van Buren
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American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. Key and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South
Eli Whitney
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Indians of the southwestern U.S. built of Adobe or stone, many- storied terraced communal structures for dwelling and defensive purposes
pueblos