SS Final Exam Review (Chapters 8-16)
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| What were George Washington's precedents? | 1) 2 terms
2) cabinet
3) no violent protest
4) neutrality
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| Define domestic policies | Events inside a nation
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| What is a Cabinet? | It is the official advisors to the President including the
Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury
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| What was the Judiciary Act? | It established 6 members of the Supreme Court
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| What is a tariff? | A tax on foreign goods
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| What was the Whiskey Rebellion? | 1) a farmer's revolt
2) Washington said no to it
3) NO VIOLENT PROTESTS
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| What was The Neutrality Proclamation? | The US would not get involved in war between England and France
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| What were The Alien and Sedition Acts? | 1) It was illegal to criticize the government
2) It violated the 1st Amendment
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| What were the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions? | 1) States could declare laws passed by the National (Federal) government unconstitutional
2) They could nullify the law
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| Explain Marbury vs Madison- Judicial Review. | The Supreme Court can declare laws passed by Congress unconstitutional.
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| What was the Louisiana Purchase? | 1) France wants an empire
2) Jefferson purchased the land for 15 million dollars
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| What was Laissez-Faire? | The government does not get involved in the economy
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| What is impressment? | The British were capturing and forcing Americans to work in the Navy
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| Explain the Embargo Act. | The US would not trade with any nation
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| Explain the Non Intercourse Act | The US would not trade with England or France
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| What were the causes of the War of 1812? | Britain was impressing sailors and arming Native Americans with weapons
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| What were the results of the War of 1812? | The war was a tie, but the US gained confidence
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| Describe industrialization. | A switch from human/animal power to machine power (factories)
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| Describe urbanization | The growth of cities
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| Who was Samuel Slater? | He brought factory plans from England to the US
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| Explain labor changes | The factories hired women and children because it was cheap labor
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| Explain unskilled versus skilled workers | Unskilled- they worked for less and they were easy to replace
Skilled- they made more $$$
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| What was suffrage? | The right to vote
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| What was the Spoils System? | The president gives government jobs to supporters
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| What was the Indian Removal Act?? | 15,000 Cherokee were forced off of their lands and settled west of the Mississippi
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| What was the Erie Canal? | Goods increase-Prices decrease
It connected Lake Erie to NYC
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| Explain the Adams-Onis Treaty. | The US bought Florida from Spain for $5 million dollars
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| Explain the Monroe Doctrine. | -European nations could not interfere in Latin America
(no new colonies)
-The US would stay out of European Affairs
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| Explain Texas Annexation | a) Texas broke away from Mexico in 1836 and was an
independent nation
b) In 1845, Texas was annexed (added on) to the US
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| What did Dorothea Dix do? | She improved the conditions for the mentally ill and prisons
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| What is temperance? | To end alcohol abuse
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| Who are Nativists? | Native born Americans against immigrants coming into the country
-1840's, The Irish and Germans
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| Explain Women's Rights | At the Seneca Falls Convention
The Declaration of sentiments (all men and women were created equally)
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| Define sectionalism | The belief in section/state over nation
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| What was the Fugitive Slave Law? | All citizens had to return runaway slaves
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| What was the Dred Scott Case? | The Supreme Court decided that slaves were property
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| What was Uncle Tom's Cabin? | It was a book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that showed the evils of slavery
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| Define abolitionist | People working to end slavery
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| Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act (popular sovereignty) | Popular Sovereignty...In 854, territories would vote on the slavery issue
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| Explain the results of Lincoln's Election | Lincoln won because of the support of the North
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| Explain secession | -The south secedes because of the election
-It creates the Confederate States of America
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| What was the significance of Fort Sumter? | It was the start of the Civil War
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| Who were the presidential leaders during the Civil War? (North and South) | North: Lincoln
South: Jefferson-Davis
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| Who were the important generals of the Civil War? (North and South) | North: Grant and Sherman
South: Robert E. Lee
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| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | January 1, 1863- slaves were freed in all areas (south) that had seceded
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| What was Bull Run? | The 1st Battle of the war
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| What happened in Vicksburg? | The North gained control of the Mississippi
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| What happened at Gettysburg? | -It was the turning point of the war
-The north won
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| What happened in April 1865? | At the Appomattox Court House in Virginia...
South-Lee surrendered to Grant
North- Grant
- THE NORTH WINS!!!
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