Terms Midterm Flashcards
Lewis and Clark
Commissioned by Pres. Jefferson to map and explore the interior of the US
Era of good feelings
Name for pres monroes two terms
Salem witch trials
3 girls started blaming women. Over 20 in the end were executed. Not just about religion but land
Dawes act
Federal law that provided Indian families w/ 160 acres of reservation land
Battle of Saratoga
Lasted 6 months. Over one million men died
Whiskey Rebellion
Congress taxed all liquor. All the corn from farmers gone to waste- lost a lot of money
Second great awakening
Series of religious revivals. Attracted women, blacks and native Americans
Battle of little big horn
Sioux warriors slaughtered more than 80 soldiers
French and Indian war
Fought for control of eastern N. America
Britain v. French and Indian allies.
Stamp act
Required colonist to purchase stamps on legal documents
Treaty of Paris
- Britain recognized colonies to be free
- Allowed western expansion
- Fishing rights, back prisoners of war & Mississippi River access
Cult of domesticity
Married women should restricts their activities to their home and families
Dread Scott case
Black slave suing for freedom based on living in free territory w/ master for five years. Supreme Court ruled him slave not citizen.
Bacons Rebellion
First Rebellion in American colonies- frontiersmen took part
Emancipation Proclamation
Executive order by Lincoln- freeing the slaves in all confederacy territory
First great awakening
1st great American revival
“New light” - supports
“Old light” - opposes
Lincoln- Douglas debates
Series of seven debates in towns throughout Illinois during the 1858 senatorial election
Cotton gin
Invention used to quickly separate the seeds from the cotton ball
Marburg v. Madison
Chief Justice Marshall asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the constitution
Monroe doctrine
Statement of foreign policy- Europe should not interfere with American affairs in the United States
Sharecropping
System of work and lively hood for freedmen who were employed (enslaved) in the cotton industry
Pilgrims
People of god who left home in England to find their religious freedom
Oregon settlement
Migratory trend. Stimulated by the optimistic reports of rich farm land and mild climate
Shays rebellion
Effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who couldn’t pay
Stamp act congress
Congress asked the king to get rid of the stamp act- no right to tax them
Tea act
American merchants not allowed to sell tea to colonists
Trail of tears
Land & water route used to force Cherokee Indians fro their homes
Treaty of Ghent
Stopped the war and gave back land taken in the war
Indentured servants
They signed contracts w/ America colonists to come to America. Had to work for 7 years (or more). Food, clothes and shelter provided
Great railroad strike
Railroad workers stopped working in response to wage cuts
A century of dishonor
Written by Helen hunt Jackson. Telling about the injustices made on the native Americans during expansion
Start spangled banner
Written by Francis Scott key during war of 1812
Yeomen farmers
Small landowners who farmed their own land and usually did not have slaves
Intolerable acts
Passed in response to the Boston tea party. Set up to punish Massachusetts
Annexation of Texas
Southern states supported Texas slavery. North feared expansion of slavery
Fugitive slave laws
Couldn’t help run away slaves-get punished and fined
Could capture slaves in free states
Battle of Antietam
North succeed in stopping Lee’s confederate forces in Maryland
Erie Canal
363 mile long artificial water way connecting Hudson River to Lake Erie
Three fifths compromise
Number of each state representatives in congress based on freed people and 3/5 of the slaves
Boston massacre
British soldiers fired into group of colonists, killing some- instigation from the colonists
