Unit 3

Question 1

Financial failure: U.S. had no way of collecting money (taxes) 
Shays fought in American revolution
Lack of hard money 
Foreign weakness: 
Had to have a unanimous vote of all the 13 colonies 
All of 13 colonies were use to working as separate units 
In ability to make decisions 
Domestic weakness: 
Printing of money 
Each colony had there own time of money 
Federal government had there own money 
14 different currencies

Answer 1

Article of Confederation

Question 2

Roger Sherman
Bicameral government: One house based on population and one house with equal representation
Big question: do slaves count?
3/5 compromise
For any state you can count 5 slaves as 3 people
A salve counts as 3/5 of a person

Answer 2

The Great Compromise

Question 3

For any state you can count 5 slaves as 3 people

A salve counts as 3/5 of a person

Answer 3

3/5 Compromise

Question 4

France is upset about treaty with Great Britain
France began seizing American merchant vessels
No weapons or Soliders on ship
Defenseless
John Adams
Adams sent 3 diplomats to France to work things out
We are expecting to meet with the French foreign minister: Talleyrand
Instead 3 French representatives appear
Identities were kept secret

Answer 4

XYZ Affairs

Question 5

1798
Lead by John Adams
Attempt by the federalist to try and control congress
Implementing 3 restrictions on immigration and the freedom of speech
Alien Act: president would have the power to expel or imprison undesirables
Aimed at 2 immigration groups: French and Irish
Sedition Act: created penalties for antigovernment activities
Speaking or writing against government became illegal
Patriot Act: allows government to tap, film house, and check computer

Answer 5

Alien and Sedition Act

Question 6

Democratic Republicans
First signs of a 2 party system
Lead by: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Afraid that sedition act will create the lose of freedom of speech and press
Got Alien and Sedition Acts “nullified” (erased)

Answer 6

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Question 7

1803
Originally owned by Spain
1800 Spain sold it to France
Go to them hoping we can purchase New Orleans: major port
Send 2 representatives to France to see if we came purchase New Orleans
James Monroe and Robert Livingston
Authorized them to offer $10 million for the purchase of Louisiana
France foreign minister offers them the entire $15 million
Increase the United States about 50%
Instead of asking congress to spend the money Jefferson says yes
Jefferson did not ask congress for the extra money
Gets the French out of the United States
If French stay they become American citizens
With Louisiana Purchase there are no more foreign element in the United States

Answer 7

Louisiana Purchase

Question 8

William Clark (general) and Meriwether Louis (scientist)
Asked congress if they can send people to explore the area we just purchased
Congress said no: not enough money and still collecting taxes
Jefferson personally funded Louis and Clark on expedition
May 14, 1804: Louis and Clark left with 50 men to travel up the Mississippi River to explore Louisiana
Expedition lasted 3 years

Answer 8

Corps of Discovery

Question 9

Took Americans and forced them into the British to fight

Answer 9

Impressment

Question 10

Chesapeake is a military ship
British can not come on ship because it is a military ship
British open fire on
Killed 20 Americans in the process

Answer 10

USS Chesapeake

Question 11

Forbids the United States to sell goods to France or Great Britain
Failed and did not work at all

Answer 11

Embargo Act

Question 12

Raise in politics

Young men that wanted to go the war with England

Answer 12

War Hawks

Question 13

September 10,1813
Commander Oliver Hazard Perry
Built fleet of ships for the United States
Capture the British fleet at Lake Erie
“We have met the enemy and they are ours”
One of the first major victories of the war of 1812
Known as the hero of Lake Erie
Received congressional Medal of Honor

Answer 13

Battle of Lake Erie

Question 14

September 13-14,1814
British fleet was given orders to bomb fort
Francis Scott Keys wrote the star spangled banner
Bombardment lasted 25 hours
Stopped because British fleet ran out of ammunition
Also called the Baltimore harbor
In Baltimore harbor while they were bombing Fort McHenry
Reason they bombed Fort McHenry from the ocean
US sunk 22 ships in the Baltimore harbor so ships wouldn’t come into the harbor
Bomb crashed through the powder room but didnt explode

Answer 14

Battle of Fort McHenry

Question 15

Went to go buy the Louisiana Purchase

Answer 15

James Monroe

Question 16

Result of over speculation
(2008): housing market crash
Era of good feeling referring to politics

Answer 16

Panic of 1819

Question 17

People stopped buying land cause they couldn’t afford it
Drops the requirement and the price of land
1800- lot
160 acres- each acre was $2.00
1820
80 acres- each acre $1.25
Offering a bailout

Answer 17

Land Act of 1820

Question 18

1820
6,000 slave state 
11 slave states 11 free states 
Evenly matched 
12 slave states 
Compramise 1820
Maine wanted to be free 
Allowed Maine to become a state early
With Maine it kept a balance 
12 slave states 12 free states 
No slave states beyond the 36/30 parallel line 
Louisiana territory 
Jefferson gave a strong warning

Answer 18

Missouri Compromise

Question 19

Great Britain became worried that we would take some of their colonies
British realize American became a strong force
Alliance
America did not want an alliance
December 3, 1823
Monroe states: America is no longer to be seen as a place for colonization by anyone
An attempt to settle in or around America will be seen as a treat of war
Promises to stay our of European affairs
Stay out of any conflict in Europe: isolationism
Isolate ourselves from old world conflicts

Answer 19

Monroe Doctrine

Question 20

Heavy emphasis is placed in the traditional role of the homemaker
1850 only 10% of women worked outside their home

Answer 20

Cult of Domesticity

Question 21

Signifies wipomens growing power and independence

Answer 21

Domestic Feminism

Question 22

Women's rights 
Miracle medicines 
Attacked issues of alcoholism, tabacco use, use of profanity
Protested delievery of mail on Sunday 
First ever FAD diets

Answer 22

Reform Attempts

Question 23

Perfect society

Robert Owen

Answer 23

Wilderness Utopias

Question 24

Women was covered by her husband

Answer 24

Couverture

Question 25

Band both sales and consumption of alcohol

Answer 25

18th amendment

Question 26

Women gathered in a large number to discuss women rights

Answer 26

Seneca Falls

Question 27

Quaker, strong abolitionist

London convention in 1850 main speaker

Answer 27

Lucretia Mott

Question 28

First to advocate suffrage for women

Answer 28

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 29

Supported female equality

Answer 29

Susan B. Anthony

Question 30

Advocate for women’s rights and first American female to graduate from medical school

Answer 30

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 31

“Old Hickory”

Answer 31

Andrew Jackson

Question 32

Required all Indians tribes to move west of the Mississippi River
1830
About 125,000 Indians
1831 Cherokee Indians agreed to move

Answer 32

Indian Removal Act

Question 33

1 in 4 Cherokee Indians died along the way from starvation of exposure

Answer 33

Trail of Tears

Question 34

1836

Goal was to protect the interest of native Americans

Answer 34

Bureau of Indian Affairs