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US History - WGU
US History, Inventors, Presidents, Explorers
Term | Definition |
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Stamp Act | Pot is set to Boil. Official stamp on all documents |
Sugar Act | Taxed colonies on sugar, wine, and molassess |
Tea Act | Allowed British East India co. to sell tea to colonies w/out paying taxes. Resulted in Boston Tea Party |
Declaratory Act | Asserted British govt. right to impose taxes |
Townsend Act | Duty tax, search and seizure |
Quartering Act | British soldiers permitted to live in colonist homes for free |
Boston Massacre | 6 colonist were shot in Boston during scuffle btwn solonist and British troops |
Trail of Tears | Cherokees departure to Oklahoma |
Ecomienda | Oppression of Native Americans by Spanish Conquistadors who were granted trusteeship over indigenous people |
Conquistidors | Soldiers |
Requerimeinto | Threatened to enslave Native Americans if Spanish demands weren't met |
Black Legend | Spanairds oppression of Native Americans |
The Great Migration | Resulted from the persecution of the Puritans |
Toleration Act | Freedom of relilgion in Baltimore to anyone professing to believe in Jesus |
Treaty of Tordesillas | Divided land btwn Spain and Portugal |
Homestead Act | Ended reign of large land owner; Gave 160 acres to farmers to farm for 5 yrs |
Oregon Trail | Began in Missouri and followed Kansas River; Due to land hunger; Concept of Manifest Destiny |
Mexican American War | Dispute over border; Gold found in Ca; Mexico had defaulted on loans to US |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexico accepts Rio Grande as border; Ceded New Mex & Ca to US |
Manifest Destiny | O'Sullivan wrote; Opened new markets & annexed foreign land |
Magna Carta | House of Lords and House of Commons; Needed royal assent for a bill to become law; Britain, 1215 sovereign rule |
Declaration of Independence | Was drafted to rally colonists against Britain and towards rebellion with promises of equality to men, and right to be free and pursue happiness |
Preamble | To form a more perfect union; Estab. justice; Ensure domestic tranquility; Common defense; General welfare; Secure blessings of liberty |
Articles of Confederation (Shortcomings) | Federal gvt assumed all power; Economy was weak; Couln't maintain order or protect people |
Articles of Confederation | Left too much power to central gvt. |
Constitution | Adhered to principles fought for in the Revolutionary War |
Bill of Rights | Citizens felt rights were not properly outlined in Constitution and insisted that Bill of Rights be added before they would agree to ratification of Constitution |
Consitutional Convention | Framers wanted a gvt with checks and balances; Great Compromise; Commercial Compromise; 3/5th Compromise |
Andrew Carnegie | Steel developer |
John Rockefeller | Standard Oil Company |
JP Morgan | 'Bankers Bank; Bought Carnegie Steel |
Alenander G. Bell | Phone inventor |
Christoper Sholes | Typerwriter inventor |
Thomas Edison | Light bulb, phonograph, dictaphone, mimegraph |
Edward Drake | Steam engine |
Westinghouse | Airbrakes for r/r cars; generating electricity |
President | elected by voters |
Senate | Elected by voters in their own state |
House of Representatives | Elected by qualified voters in their own state; can impeach president |
Congress | Maintains military; Declares war; Regulate intersate and foreign commerce |
Two Party System (Strength) | Greater representation of the people |
Two Party System (Weakness) | Excludes opinio outside the 2 parties |
Marbury vs Madison | 'Judicial Review'; Unconstitutional to force appts that were wrong |
Dred Scott | Fueled Civil War; Slave that sued for freedom based on the fact that he lived in a free state; Was denied; |
Plessy vs Ferguson | 'Seperate Car Act'; Seperate bu not equal doctrine |
Brown vs Board of Education | End of segregation in public schools |
Roe vs Wade | Woman had right to end pregnancy |
George Washington | Set presidential presidence |
George Washington | French and indian War |
George Washington | Prime mover oin steps leading to Constitutional Convention |
Thomas Jefferson | Silent member of Congress |
Thomas Jefferson | Drafted Declartion of Independence |
Thomas Jefferson | Wrote bill estab religious freedom |
Abraham Lincoln | Civil War |
Abraham Lincoln | Built up Republican Party |
Abraham Lincoln | Emancipation Proclamation |
Abraham Lincoln | commissioned Lewis and Clark for expedition of Louisiana Purchase |
Franklin D Roosevelt | Great Depression |
Franklin D Roosevelt | New Deal |
Franklin D Roosevelt | 'Good Neighbor' Policy |
Franklin D Roosevelt | Wanted to keep US out of war with Europe |
Franklin D Roosevelt | Pearl Harbor |
John F Kennedy | Progress and the Peace Corps |
John F Kennedy | Cuban Missle Crisis |
John F Kennedy | Space Exploration |
Lindon B Johnson | A Great Society |
Lindon B Johnson | Medicare ammendment to SS Act |
Lindon B Johnson | VietNam |
Richard Nixon | Foreign Policy |
Richard Nixon | Suspicious of media, rivals and bureaucracy |
Ronald Reagan | Ended Cold War |
Ronald Reagan | Great Communicator |
Ronald Reagan | Lowered Taxes |
Ronald Reagan | Peace through strength |
Susan B Anthony | Women's right to vote |
Susan B Anthony | Suffrage movement; the 'cause' |
Jackie Robinson | 1st Black Major League Baseball player |
Cesar Chavez | Migrate workers in Ca |
Cesar Chavez | Boycotted grape producers in Ca |
Cesar Chavez | 'Farm Workers Association' |
New England Colonies | Mass, RI, Connecticut |
New England Colonies | Sought religious freedom |
Mid-Atlantic Colonies | Va, Maryland |
Mid-Atlantic Colonies | Agriculturally based |
Mid-Atlantic Colonies | Firm basis for the growth of slavery |
Southern Colonies | NC, SC, Ga |
Southern Colonies | Rice, tabacco, cotton |