Unit 1 Flashcards
When was the Sugar act?
1764
When was the townshend act?
1767
When was the Boston massacre?
1770
When was the Boston Tea Party?
1773
When was the intolerable act?
1774
When was the Quebec act?
1774
What did the 13th amendment do?
End slavery
What did the 14th amendment do?
Provided full citizenship for African Americans
What did the 15th amendment do?
Provided voting rights for African Americans
What was the intolerable act?
King George angered by Boston Tea party -so closed Boston harbor, quarter. Soldiers in empty homes/buildings
What was Thomas Paine’s Common Sense pamphlet about?
Attacking the king and argued independence, free trade, and foreign aid
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and what was it?
•Thomas Jefferson
•Formal statement of separation
What was the Treaty of Paris? When was it created and signed?
•Confirmed US independence
•Created in 1782 - signed 1783
What did Thomas Jefferson do when he became president?
•Doubled US territory w/Louisiana purchase
What did the Judicial Act of 1789 do?
Created the judicial branch and executive branch
How did Hamilton’s stance differ from Jefferson’s? Who supported him?
•believed in strong central government led by the wealthy + educated
-had the northeastern support
How did Jefferson’s stance differ from Hamilton’s? Who supported him?
•believed in strong state, local government, people’s participation
-had southern & western support
What was the Northern economy like?
More production (machinery, factories textile mills, etc.)
What was the south like?
• More farms, plantations
•cotton gin allowed farmers to grow cotton for profit
What was “Manifest Destiny?”
•encouraged Americans to head west
When was the Indian removal act? What was it?
Who enforced it?
•1830
•The displacement or assimilation of Native Americans
•Andrew Jackson
In 1838, 20,000 Natives still remained, who ordered a final removal?
•President Martin Van Buren
What was the impact of Mexican independence?
•Trade was encouraged between US & Mexico, as well as moving west to Texas
When did Texas go from an independent nation to a state?
•1845
What did president James K. Polk want?
•War w/Mexico
^believed US would get Texas, New Mexico and CA
What did abolitionists support?
• The abolition of slavery
What did John Brown plan? How did he pay for his actions?
•To start a slave uprising
•He was hung
What happened during the election of 1860?
Democrats split over slavery and Lincoln won
What was Lincoln’s 10% plan?
Reconstruct after civil war 1865-1877
What did the radical republicans want to do?
Destroy power of former slave holders and give full citizenship to African Americans
Who took over after Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
What did Andrew Johnson plan?
Ratify amendments 13-15
How was the South doing by 1870?
Farms destroyed, bonds worthless, people dead -BAD
What’s the difference between share cropping and tenant farming?
•Sharecropping: owner gives land, seed, tools for part of crops
•Tenant Farming: rent land from owner, buys tools
What did the KKK want to do?
•Force republican state governments out of power
When were the 14th and 15th amendments undermined?
1870’s
When did the democrats return back to power in the south?
1869-1875
