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Portfolio Part 1
End of Semester Portfolio Part 1
Term | Definition |
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Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did | |
Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 1787? | They opposed such a strong central government as the proposed constitution described. |
Thomas Paine and Common Sense | Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, an immigrant who advocated strongly for American independence. |
Declaration of Independence | The 1776 document declaring independence from Britain. |
A farmers protest in 1787 against increased state taxes. | |
In 1803, the U.S. purchased the Louisiana territory from France for $15 million. | |
A series of agreements between 1820 and 1821 that made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state. | |
A compromise suggested by Henry Clay proposing California as a free state, newer more effective fugitive slave laws, and popular sovereignty. It was rejected. | |
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand west to the Pacific Coast and into Mexican and Indian Land. | |
The North was more industrial and the South was more farmland and plantations. | |
Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War | |
A women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York | |
Reconstruction Period | The Untied State's rebuilding period after the Civil War |