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US History - WGU
US History, Inventors, Presidents, Explorers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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