Year review 2015 Flashcards
Europeans first contact with Native Americans resulted in these three interactions.
new diseases
new crops
new livestock
This colony welcomed Quakers.
Pennsylvania
The difficult journey experienced by African slaves from their capture in Africa to the unfamiliar circumstances in the Americas is called ____.
The Middle Passage
Overthrowing government and setting up a new one better to the people’s needs is a basic idea included in the Declaration of Independence and expressed by the enlightened thinker
John Locke
Virginia’s cash crop that promised economic success.
tobacco
The Pilgrim’s Covenant community in Massachusetts was based on rules as outlined by ____.
The Mayflower Compact
Equality for all before God no matter how rich or poor a person was is the basis of ___
The Great Awakening of the mid 1700s.
The pamphlet with the idea of independence from rule by Great Britain published in 1776 is called ____.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Author of the Declaration of Independence is ___
Thomas Jefferson
The _____ allied with the American Patriots during the U.S. Revolution
France
Slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation purposes in ____
The 3/5th compromise of the Constitution
The ______ as seen by Montesquieu was embraced by the Constitution separation of powers so that no single branch of the government would become too powerful
Checks and Balances
___ is seen as the father of the Virginia Plan and as “Father of the Constitution”
James Madison
Its primary purpose as defined by the Constitution was to enforce the laws.
Executive Branch headed by the President
The ______ election marked the first peaceful transition of political power from one political party to another.
Adams/Jefferson 1800 Election
Extending American control from the Atlantic to the Pacific was the basis of the idea of ____.
Manifest Destiny
The US warned European nations not to interfere or intervene in the Western Hemisphere in 1823 with the ____.
Monroe Doctrine
Gathering and recording information about the Louisiana Purchase’s natural resources was the purpose for _____ explorations in 1804.
Lewis and Clark
Who were William Lloyd Garrison’s devoted followers?
Abolitionists who wanted to do away with slavery
The state of ____ would become a free state according to the Compromise of 1850.
California would become a free state.
Many northerners were appalled and angered by slavery when they read _____.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
What are three events of Andrew Jackson’s presidency?
Trail of Tears
Nullification Crisis
Spoils System
At the beginning of the Civil War, what was Lincoln’s primary goal?
To preserve the Union from a break up
Allowing African American voting was the purpose of which Amendment?
15th Amendment
