SEM I FINAL EXAM Flashcards
French-Indian War
-1753-1760
-Benjamin Franklin
Shays Rebellion
-Depression
-Daniel Shays
-Rebellion Crushed
Articles of Confederation
-Republican Ideals (Republicanism - power from the people)
-John Locke (remove gov that didn’t protect rights, 3 natural rights - life, liberty, property)
Boston Massacre
-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
13 Colonies
-Maryland
-Virginia
-N. Carolina
-S. Carolina
-Georgia
-New Jersey
-New York
-New Hampshire
-Delaware
-Massachusetts
-Connecticut
-Pennsylvania
-Rhode Island
Dec. of Ind.
-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)
Stamp Act
-1765
-Taxes on all printed items
Yorktown
-(1781)
-Cornwallis (BR) surrounded by Washington
-Lafayette and French fleet
-British surrender
Common Sense
-Thomas Payne
-Pamphlet
-Argued divorce Britain
Battle of Saratoga
-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
Alexander Ham.
-Secretary of Treasury
-Established Nat. Bank
Thomas Jefferson
-Author of Declaration of Independence
-Secretary of State
-Rep
Great Compromise
-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)
Bill of Rights
-Anti-Federalists demanded individual protections
-Henry and S. Adams)
Fort McHenry
-Francis Scott Key (Star Spangled Banner)
Lewis and Clark
-45 explorers
-Sacagawea & York
Missouri Compromise
-New States slaves/free
-Missouri & Maine added
-Slavery boundary (36°30°, south slaves, north NO slaves)
-Slaves classified as property
-Violates 5th Amendment
Horace Mann
-Started public school systems
Monroe Doctrine
-No Europe settlement in USA
-USA would fight to defend
-Isolationism
Louisiana Purchase
-James Monroe (Sect. of State)
-Napoleon offers all of Louisiana
-DOUBLED the size of America
-Lewis & Clark
-Zebulon Pike
-TJ made America bigger
Dorothea Dix
-Fight for Women’s Rights
-Mental Health
Lyman Beecher
-Fiery Preacher against alcohol
The Alamo
-Spanish Fort
-William Travis, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie
Manifest Destiny
-John O’Sullivan
-justified/inevitable
-Western Hemisphere
-1800 pop 5 mill
-1850 pop 23 mill
Mexican War
-President James K. Polk (11th)
-Stephen Kearny
-Winfield Scott
-Guadalupe Hidalgo
-Gaddsen Purchase
Sam Houston
-led Battle of San Jacinto
Santa Anna
-Mexican President
-invaded Texas
Homestead Act
-1862
-Receive land after 5 years
Must Farm
Compromise of 1850
-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
Abolitionists
-against slavery
Dred Scott Case
-Slave
-Emerson is his owner
-Roger B. Taney (Supreme Court Justice)
Bleeding Kansas
-Fighting over Kansas
-Elections in Kansas
-Violence in Kansas
John Brown
-Abolitionist
-Pottawatomie Massacre
-Went into hiding
-Violence carried into the senate
-Charles Sumner beaten by Preston Brooks
Gettysburg
-Lee (Confederates) need this!
-Meade replaces Hooker (Union)
-Confed lost 1/3 of their men
-Union won
-Turning point of Civil War
Freedmen’s Bureau
-Gov Agency to help former slaves
-Food, clothing, employment, schools
Southern Adv.
-Defensive War
-Superior Military Officers
-Superior Riders/Shooters
-Home field
Northern Adv.
larger population, greater industrial capacity, superior transportation networks, superior food supply, powerful navy
Emancipation Proclamation
-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
Abe Lincoln
-16th
-won with only 40% of popular vote
-Unify the nation
Plessy V. Ferguson
-Supreme Court ruled that businesses could be segregated if facilities were equal
-S.C. segregation as long as equal
Populist Party
-4 groups made up
-Graduated income tax
-Gov’t owned
-“Free Silver”
-Immigration restrictions
-Short work day
-Voting reform
Triangle Shirtwaist
-Company
-3/25/1911
-500 employees (Jewish/Italian women)
-8th floor
-FIRE!
-146 women died
Trust-busting
-Enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act
-ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)
-Elkins Act (Railroad equality)
-Hepburn Act (set railroad rates)
Muckrakers
-Teddy Roosevelt
-Investigative Journalists
Political Machines
-Helped the poor
-Helped the working class
Teddy Roosevelt
-VP
-26th
18th
-BANNING OF ALCOHOL
-1919 to 1933
19th
-Woman full voting rights
Wobblies
-Boycotts
-Strikes
-Industrial sabotages
Hawaii
-(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
Panama Canal
-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)
USS Maine
-US Battleship explodes off Havana
-260 Americans killed
-“Remember the Maine to hell with Spain”
De Lome Letter
-Spanish diplomate calls President WEAK
Rough Riders
-Led by Teddy
-Volunteer Force
-control the Hill above Santiago during Battle of San Juan Hill
Jones Act
-1917
-Puerto Ricans given US citizenship
-(1952) commonwealth of US
