Objective Final Review Flashcards
Middle Colonies
Quakers/William Penn- William founded the Middle colonies, he believed that if you approach others with friendship they will respond with friendship, and the Quakers made the majority of the population and preferred a simple design on the tables, chairs, and chests.
Benjamin Franklin-
Southern Colonies
Tobacco- was the main crop in the southern colonies
Slave Labor- crops, agriculture, and plantations were done by slaves
Pocahontas/John Smith-
Southwestern Colonies
Catholic Missions-
Conquistadors-
Causes of the Revolutionary War
French and Indian War- a war between France and Britain to control North America.
Boycotts- the colonists boycotted a lot of British goods in the colonies
Sons of Liberty- were the
Smuggling- colonists smuggled firearms and other things
Stamp Act, Townshend Duties, “Intolerable Acts,” Quartering Act, and Sugar Act were all taxes without the colonists consent
Proclamation of 1763- banned all settlement west of the Appalachians to avoid more conflicts with Native Americans, which angered the colonists
Revolutionary War Battles and Events
Lexington and Concord- Bunker Hill- Saratoga- Yorktown- Principles of the Declaration of Independence- George Washington- Patriots vs. Loyalists- Hessians-
Constitution, New Nation, Jacksonian Democracy, Hamilton vs. Jefferson
Articles of Confederation Weaknesses and Strengths- weaknesses were, that it had a weak central government, Northwest Ordinance of 1787- Great Compromise and 3/5 Compromise- Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists- Hamilton’s plans vs. Jefferson’s plans- Louisiana Purchase- War of 1812- “Corrupt Bargain” of 1824- Jacksonian Democracy- Manifest Destiny- Immigration during antebellum period- Reform Movements-
Causes of the Civil War
Economic differences between North and South- Missouri Compromise- Compromise of 18501 Kansas-Nebraska Act/popular sovereignty- Dred Scott decision- Election of Lincoln-
Battles and Events of the Civil War
Advantages and disadvantages of Union and Confederacy- Antietam- Emancipation Proclamation- Role of African-Americans in the war- Gettysburg- Gettysburg Address- Appomattox-
Civil War Reconstruction
Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction- Sharecropping- Black codes- Radical Republicans- 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments- Andrew Johnson- "Redemption”/KKK-
Gilded Age Immigration
Chinese
Italian
Eastern European Political Machines
Boss Tweed
New England Colonies
Economy- was mostly farming, women couldn’t own anything, gifts given were typically livestock, houses were wooden and had stone chimneys, family consumed most of the crop, they sold what was left over, they obtained land grants,
they loaned animals and grew grasses, migration preserved yeoman society
Puritans