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U.S history
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Compromise of 1850 | a package of five bills passed in the U.S in September of 1850, it caused a four year confrontation between the two slave states both north and south concerning the status of territories purchased during |
| Manifest Destiny | the thought that American settlers plan was to expand the continent. Historians believe that there are 3 different types of manifest destiny! |
| The Gold Rush | a fast movement in which people discovered gold. First gold rush was in 1848. |
| Monroe Doctrine | A policy of the U.S that opposed interference between the western hemisphere and power it was introduced on December 2, 1823. |
| Bill of Rights | a statement that stated the rights of a class of people, the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, it included a lot of things such as the rights ,freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship. |
| Articles of Confederation | the original constitution of the U.S which was introduced 1781, and was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. |
| Imperialism | a rule of extending a country's power and influence through military force. |
| Social Gospel Movement | a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the late 19th century and early 20th century. |
| Trail of Tears | a name given to the ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the U.S following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. |
| Tammany Hall | a well-known political organization within the Democratic Party in New York |
| Political corruption of the 1800s | One way was influencing votes through “charitable acts”, and another way was that they would protect certain criminals in return for monetary support. |
| Americanization movement | the process of an immigrant to the U.S of America becoming a person who shares values. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | an early and influential women's rights convention, the first to be organized by women in New York. |
| Age of Enlightenment | a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in the 18th century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism. |
| Industrialization | social and economic change is a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state. |
| Great Compromise | an agreement that large and small states made during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. |
| Muckrakers | are those who spread real or alleged rumors about another for political advantage. |
| Abraham Lincoln | was the 16th President of the U.S also saved the Union during the American Civil War. |
| John Locke | English empiricist philosopher he believed that all knowledge is brought from sensory experience |
| Magna Carta | the royal charter of political rights given to English barons by King John. |
| Advantages of the South in the Civil War | he best officers in the United States were from the South, had skills that made them good soldiers, also they defended their homeland gave them a strong reason to fight |
| Advantages of the North in the Civil War | Many free citizens’ .also had many people to grow food and to work in factories making supplies, more than 70% of the nation's rail lines. |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independence and was the 3rd President of the United States. |
| 18th. Amendment | prohibited the invention and sale of alcohol in America |
| 19th Amendment | prohibited any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote. |
| Volstead Act | was created to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States |
| Scopes Trial | is the state of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes , a famous American legal case in 1925 a high school teacher named John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which was against the law to teach human evolution in any state school. |
| Sugar Act | was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764. |
| Stamp Act | an act of the British Parliament in 1756 ,stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. |
| Intolerable Acts | many laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. |
| Boston Tea Party | Many disguised as Indians, destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the American boycott of tea. |
| Checks and Balances | counterbalancing influences , system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of groups. |
| Reconstruction | process of reconstructing |
| Rehabilitation | restoration of someone to a useful place in society |
| Federalism | system of government |
| Trigger that began WWI | the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by a Serbian nationalist of the secret society |
| Progressive Movement | a reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century and is generally considered to be middle class and reformist in nature |
| Main ideas of the Federalist | Believed in strong central government, strong executive, encouragement of economic development , and Strongest in New York and Massachusetts. |
| Main ideas of the Anti-Federalists | their belief that a stronger government threatened the sovereignty of the state and individuals. The other point was the central government under the Articles of Confederation was sufficient. |
| Harlem Renaissance | Movement of the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected . |
| Allied Powers of WWI | started in 1914 with 5 main countries which were Great Britain, Russia, France, Belgium and Serbia. Until 1918 the US joined the allied forces. |
| Gilded age | a period spanning in the 1870s to the turn of the twentieth century. |
| Prohibition Movement | a nationwide ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcohol drinks that remained in place from 1920-1933. |
| Laissez Faire | a policy of letting things take their own course, without interfering. |
| Robert E. Lee | American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War. |
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