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Question | Answer |
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cash crop | farm crop raised to be sold for money such as tobacco |
Plantation | large estate farmed by many workers |
Declaration of Independence | Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state. |
Patriots | American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won |
Articles of Confederation | 1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive |
Shay's Rebellion | Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 |
Three-Fifths Compromise | Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the enslaved population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. |
Antifederalists | those who favor a weaker national government and opposed the constitution. Power to the states. |
Federalists | supporters of the Constitution who wanted a strong national government |
Federalism | A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments |
Separation of Powers | Constitutional division of powers among the legislative |
Constitution | A written plan of government for the US that divided powers between the state and national government. It also created three branches of government. |
George Washington | 1st President of the United States under the Constitution; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799) |
Louisiana Purchase | 1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson |
Lewis and Clark | Sent on an expedition by Jefferson to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route to the Pacific. They kept very careful maps and records of this new land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase. |
Monroe Doctrine | A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere. |
Missouri Compromise | "Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states. |
Frederick Douglass | (1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer |
Trail of Tears | The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee |
Manifest Destiny | 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent. |
Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) |
Abolitionist Movement | Movement to end slavery |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A prominent advocate of women's rights |
Legislative Branch | the branch of government that makes the laws |
Executive Branch | the branch of government that carries out laws |
Judicial Branch | the branch of government that interprets laws |
Thomas Jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence; 3rd president of the U.S. |
Free Soil Party | A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and but gave other territories in the Southwest the choice as to whether to allow slavery (popular sovereignty) |
Fugitive Slave Act | A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | (1811-1896) American author |
Dred Scott | enslaved man who filed suit for his freedom |
Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States; assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) |
Confederacy | the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 |