US1 Final Flashcards
Cash Crop
A crop grown for money rather than use
5 Civilized Tribes
Cherokee
They took on the white man’s ways
They were ejected unfairly from their lands by Andrew Jackson
How many trail of tears were there?
2
Intolerable Acts
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
Declaration of Independence
American breakaway from Britain, held no legal value, (purely symbolic)
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million
Stamp Act
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
Battle of Saratoga
turning point in the Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington/Concord
American victory
Proclamation Line of 1763
a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide
So that Americans couldn’t produce furs
Propoganda
Common Sense
Uncle Johns Cabin
1st Amendment
Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise.
2nd Amendment
Right to bear arms
5th Amendment
no self incrimination
13th Amendment
no more slavery
14th Amendment
It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people
15th Amendment
granted African American men the right to vote.
Frederick Douglass
Radical Abolitionist
Escaped Slave
Thaddeus Stevens
Radical Abolitionists
Northwest Ordinance
Land surveying in the midwest
Articles of Confederation
first try at our government
major fail
Shay’s Rebellion
uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions.
farmers
Whiskey Rebellion
a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington.
Virginia-Kentucky Resolution
response to alien-sedition acts
by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
Nationalism
the belief that your country is superior, without question or doubt
Sectionalism
caring more about you region than your country
Impeachment
process of bringing charges against a government official for wrongdoing
National Road
road for western expansion
manifest destiny
2nd Great Awakening
started social reforms
labor, women’s suffrage, educational reform
Compromise of 1850/Gold Rush
five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States
Upton Sinclair/Jungle
muckraker
wrote about social bad things
laissez faire government
minimal government interference in the economy
Wade Davis Bill
50% of all voters in the Confederate states, as opposed to Lincoln’s proposed 10%, must pledge allegiance to the Union before reunification.
Black Codes
restricted black people’s right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
Social Darwinism
capitalism, if you aren’t smart you won’t survive
George Washington
good at recognizing talent
Samuel Adams
a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
Eli Whitney
Invented Cotton Gin
Cotton Gin
Machine that made short staple cotton profitable
Federalist Papers
a collection of essays written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton in 1788. The essays urged the ratification of the United States Constitution
Anti- Federalists
People who opposed ratification of the US Constitution
10% Plan
after the civil war, lincoln proposed that if confederate states had 10% of their population against slavery, then they could rejoin the union, however lincoln was killed soon after this and only arkansas, tennessee and louisiana
Land Ordinance of 1785
It laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold
Manifest Destiny
American Nationalism: americans pushed west destroying anything in their path because “God gave them approval” to do so
Embargo Act
closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain
Sherman’s March to the Sea
First example of total war
Sherman made confederate soldiers come home which ultimately led to their inability to wage war
Total War
first happened in the civil war
when war is fought regardless of if it will harm civilians or destroy infrastructure
Sherman’s March to The Sea
Muckrakers
Investigative reporters
they find all the “dirt” on people and things
gossip column
Social Darwinism
Capitalism
If you are not smart, you might not make it
Ellis and Angel Island
First Immigration ports for immigrant
angel: mostly asian
ellis: mostly european
“Common Man”
uneducated masses
largely irish and illiterate
Samuel Slater
“Father of the American Industrial Revolution”
American Systems
an economic plan proposed by Senator Henry Clay that called for high tariffs to support internal improvements such as road-building
Missouri Compromise of 1820
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time
Annexation of Texas
a provision permitting Texas to retain title to its public lands
Sharecropping
Former slaves could live on farms as long as they gave half of their crops to their landlord as rent
Tenant Farming
when former slaves couldn’t pay for rent, they would have to pay off their debt for generations (this occurred until the 1930s)
National Bank
Alexander Hamilton’s grand experiment in central banking began in 1791 to assist a post-Revolutionary War economy and ended 20 years later
Mexican War
invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848
Oregon Issue
19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.
Oregon Trail
path west for people
very difficult and dangerous
