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World Studies -CJMS
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that expansion was bound to happen, and the US was meant to be from the ATLANTIC OCEAN to the PACIFIC OCEAN |
| Jacksonian Democracy | Spreading power to people-majority rule |
| State's Rights | Right to judge if federal law is unconsitutional |
| The Second Great Awakening | Renewal of religious faith in late 1700s and early 1800s |
| Industrialization | The change from widespread farming to use of factories and manufacturing |
| Immigration | Move from one country to another- push and pull factors |
| Push and Pull Factors | Reasons to leave a country and reasons to go to another |
| Labor Union | Group of people who band together to demand better conditions |
| Strike | Workers stop working for better conditions |
| Competition | Individuals, businesses, and nations compete. Competition drives the search for new markets and sets acceptable prices for buyers and sellers |
| Private Ownership | Individual buyers and sellers own resources and receive profits. Gov gets a certain amount of profit through taxes and owns some resources. |
| Horace Mann | African Americans and Women didn't have access to education. |
| Dorothea Dix | Reformer from Boston. Discovered mentally ill were jailed because of mental illnesses. Helped found 32 hospitals for better treatment of mentally ill. |
| Free Enterprise | Freedom to the point of personal and community safety. People are free to make most decisions as long as they are not harmful |
| Consumer Choice | People have a wide variety of choices but are limited by the amount of their personal resources |
| Role of Government | Limited Gov. involvement [taxes, laws, competition] |
| Growth | Cycles of ups and downs. People success of economy by how much it grows |
| Sections of land of the US | O L R F T O M G |
| O L R F T O M G | Original 13 colonies, Louisiana Purchase, Red River Basin, Florida, Texas Annexation, Oregon Treaty, Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase |
| Original 13 Colonies | Fought for during the Revolutionary War with Britain. 1770s |
| John Marshall | Federalist. Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
| Marbury v. Madison | Established Judicial Review- Supreme Court has final say interpreting Constitution |
| Federalists | Supporters of the Constitution |
| Louisiana Purchase | Bought from Napoleon [france] $15 million.Napoleon sold it because France needed $$ because they were at war with Spain. Jefferson wanted land and use of Mississippi |
| Trails West | land=$$, move west to find jobs and escape debt |
| Santa Fe Trail | Missouri to Sante Fe deadly 800mi desert |
| Oregon Trail | Missouri to Oregon Terr. 2,000mi wagon trains |
| Mormon Trail | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Close communities, prospered, polygamy, UTAH |
| Importance of Trails | Afer LA Purchase, USA owned more land, enticing perspective land owners. Dangerous, gruesome, tiring, and long- hopes of land. Led to cities and towns |
| Stephen Austin | Started law-abiding colony in Texas of Americans |
| Tension between Mexico and US | Americans resented Mexican laws, official docs in spanish, slavery outlawed, Texans pay taxes. |
| Santa Anna | Mexican President who put Stephen Austin in jail |
| Battle of the Alamo | in 1836, Texans defended a church called the Alamo against the Mexican army;all but five Texans were killed. |
| Same Houston | The only man at the meeting ( Texans met at a settlement called Washington-on-the Brazos to decide what to do about Santa Annas troops) with military experience. He was placed in command of the Texas Army. |
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