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SEM I FINAL EXAM Flashcards

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French-Indian War

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-1753-1760
-Benjamin Franklin

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Shays Rebellion

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-Depression
-Daniel Shays
-Rebellion Crushed

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Articles of Confederation

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-Republican Ideals (Republicanism - power from the people)
-John Locke (remove gov that didn’t protect rights, 3 natural rights - life, liberty, property)

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Boston Massacre

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-March 5, 1770
-2 British regiments (4000 troops)
-50-60 colonists taunt soldiers
-3 colonists killed - 2 die later
-John Adams defends British troops in court

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13 Colonies

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-Maryland
-Virginia
-N. Carolina
-S. Carolina
-Georgia
-New Jersey
-New York
-New Hampshire
-Delaware
-Massachusetts
-Connecticut
-Pennsylvania
-Rhode Island

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Dec. of Ind.

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-Author: Thomas Jefferson
-Traitors to crown, failure meant imprisonment or death
-Preamble: Natural Rights - Life, Liberty and property (all men are created equal, grievances against the King, colonies no longer hold allegiances to Britain)

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Stamp Act

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-1765
-Taxes on all printed items

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Yorktown

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-(1781)
-Cornwallis (BR) surrounded by Washington
-Lafayette and French fleet
-British surrender

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Common Sense

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-Thomas Payne
-Pamphlet
-Argued divorce Britain

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Battle of Saratoga

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-1777
-Burgoyne (BR) marched South from Canada to attack, met up with Howe (BR)
-Horatio Gates defeated Redcoats
-Benedict Arnold heroic
-Turning point in war - French declare war on Britain/later Spain joined

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Alexander Ham.

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-Secretary of Treasury
-Established Nat. Bank

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Thomas Jefferson

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-Author of Declaration of Independence
-Secretary of State
-Rep

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Great Compromise

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-Roger Sherman
-Bi cameral: Upper-Senate: Equality - each state has two senators chosen by state legislators (foreign affairs)
-Lower-House of Representative: Based on population, elected by the people (*435)

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Bill of Rights

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-Anti-Federalists demanded individual protections
-Henry and S. Adams)

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Fort McHenry

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-Francis Scott Key (Star Spangled Banner)

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Lewis and Clark

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-45 explorers
-Sacagawea & York

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Missouri Compromise

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-New States slaves/free
-Missouri & Maine added
-Slavery boundary (36°30°, south slaves, north NO slaves)
-Slaves classified as property
-Violates 5th Amendment

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Horace Mann

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-Started public school systems

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Monroe Doctrine

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-No Europe settlement in USA
-USA would fight to defend
-Isolationism

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Louisiana Purchase

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-James Monroe (Sect. of State)
-Napoleon offers all of Louisiana
-DOUBLED the size of America
-Lewis & Clark
-Zebulon Pike
-TJ made America bigger

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Dorothea Dix

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-Fight for Women’s Rights
-Mental Health

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Lyman Beecher

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-Fiery Preacher against alcohol

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The Alamo

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-Spanish Fort
-William Travis, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie

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Manifest Destiny

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-John O’Sullivan
-justified/inevitable
-Western Hemisphere
-1800 pop 5 mill
-1850 pop 23 mill

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Mexican War

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-President James K. Polk (11th)
-Stephen Kearny
-Winfield Scott
-Guadalupe Hidalgo
-Gaddsen Purchase

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Sam Houston

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-led Battle of San Jacinto

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Santa Anna

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-Mexican President
-invaded Texas

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Homestead Act

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-1862
-Receive land after 5 years
Must Farm

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Compromise of 1850

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-N & S Compromise
-CA is Free
-Abolish Slave Trade (Not Slavery)
-Pay Texas $10 Million for NM
-NM divided into NM & UT
-Popular Sovereignty
-Tougher Fugitive Slave Law

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Abolitionists

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-against slavery

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Dred Scott Case

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-Slave
-Emerson is his owner
-Roger B. Taney (Supreme Court Justice)

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Bleeding Kansas

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-Fighting over Kansas
-Elections in Kansas
-Violence in Kansas

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John Brown

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-Abolitionist
-Pottawatomie Massacre
-Went into hiding
-Violence carried into the senate
-Charles Sumner beaten by Preston Brooks

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Gettysburg

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-Lee (Confederates) need this!
-Meade replaces Hooker (Union)
-Confed lost 1/3 of their men
-Union won
-Turning point of Civil War

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Freedmen’s Bureau

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-Gov Agency to help former slaves
-Food, clothing, employment, schools

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Southern Adv.

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-Defensive War
-Superior Military Officers
-Superior Riders/Shooters
-Home field

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Northern Adv.

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larger population, greater industrial capacity, superior transportation networks, superior food supply, powerful navy

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Emancipation Proclamation

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-issued by Lincoln
-Slaves in Confederate states would be freed
-would announce after a Union battle victory
-issued January 1st, 1863
-Pres. Lincoln’s plan
-ALL slave free
-Antietam

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Abe Lincoln

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-16th
-won with only 40% of popular vote
-Unify the nation

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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-Supreme Court ruled that businesses could be segregated if facilities were equal
-S.C. segregation as long as equal

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Populist Party

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-4 groups made up
-Graduated income tax
-Gov’t owned
-“Free Silver”
-Immigration restrictions
-Short work day
-Voting reform

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Triangle Shirtwaist

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-Company
-3/25/1911
-500 employees (Jewish/Italian women)
-8th floor
-FIRE!
-146 women died

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Trust-busting

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-Enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act
-ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)
-Elkins Act (Railroad equality)
-Hepburn Act (set railroad rates)

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Muckrakers

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-Teddy Roosevelt
-Investigative Journalists

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Political Machines

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-Helped the poor
-Helped the working class

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Teddy Roosevelt

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-VP
-26th

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18th

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-BANNING OF ALCOHOL
-1919 to 1933

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19th

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-Woman full voting rights

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Wobblies

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-Boycotts
-Strikes
-Industrial sabotages

50
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Hawaii

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-(1887) Bayonet Constitution
-(1890) McKinley Tariff
-(1891) Queen Liliuokalani
-(1893) Marines Landed
-(1893) Blount Report
-(1894) Sanford Dole leads
-(1898) US Annexed Hawaii
-(1959) Hawaii 50th

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Panama Canal

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-Move Navy Quick
-Good for trade across the world!
-French Start
-Problems (Geography)
-America Buys it
-Columbia Treaty
-President TR is FURIOUS!
-Bunae-Varilla (Panama)
-USS Nashville prevents Columbia from landing
-Panama gets independence from Columbia
-Cost (6000 lives, $375 M)

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USS Maine

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-US Battleship explodes off Havana
-260 Americans killed
-“Remember the Maine to hell with Spain”

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De Lome Letter

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-Spanish diplomate calls President WEAK

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Rough Riders

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-Led by Teddy
-Volunteer Force
-control the Hill above Santiago during Battle of San Juan Hill

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Jones Act

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-1917
-Puerto Ricans given US citizenship
-(1952) commonwealth of US

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