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US History Final 7th
US History Finals 7th Grade material
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did | Economic gain (resources) and religious freedom. |
| Declaration of Independence | The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government. |
| Shay’s Rebellion | August 1786–February 1787, uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. Armed bands forced the closing of several courts to prevent execution of foreclosures and debt processes. |
| Louisiana Purchase | The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 bought from France, doubling the size of the young republic. |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also created the 36'20 line. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Compromise of 1850, a series of measures proposed by the ’ Sen. Henry Clay |
| Manifest Destiny | John O'Sullivan coined the term 'manifest destiny' to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific. |
| Economic differences of the North and South prior to the Civil War | North: 3x population of the South,90% of industry and railroads located in the North, Anti-Slavery. South: 3 million slaves out of the 9 mill large population, economy was based on cotton production. |
| Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War | Lincoln 's main goal was to save the Union from splitting apart |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first women’s rights convention in the United States. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held in 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. |
| Result of the Civil War | Slavery was abolished, Northern economy improves, Southern economy grows weak, the Union is reunited. |
| Indian Wars between 1860-1890 | America began expanding westward. People began traveling west in search of new life and free land. The land that American settlers were claiming as their own had for centuries belonged to the Native Americans. This led to the wars |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862. The Act gave citizens up to 160 acres of public land, provided they live on it, improve it for 5 years and pay a small registration fee. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | The First Transcontinental Railroad was built crossing the western half of America and it was pieced together between 1863 and 1869. When finished it connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. Travel across the country went from months to a week. |
| Three-fifths Compromise | The three-fifths compromise was an agreement reached by the state delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.Under the compromise, every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes. |
| Reconstruction goals after the Civil War | To reunite the Union as one whole as well as repair cities and their damaged buildings that were broken due to the War. |
| Economic impact of the Civil War | 1.5 Billion worth of property destroyed in the South, 600,000 people died, 9% of the male population. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln created this to change the meaning of war and make it a war for freedom. Slavery will be abolished in those places of oopen rebellion. |
| Early Migration over a land bridge between Asia and North America | Beringina |
| European explorers brought this with them when they arrived in America and caused millions of unitnended deaths | Diseases |
| Albany Plan of Union | Ben Franklin tries to unite the colonies with his join or die motto against the French before the French and Indian war |
| No Taxation without representation | The Colonial reaction to King George passing all the taxes(acts) after the French and Indian War |
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, food, beliefs people, and diseases that took place between the Americas(New World) and Europe and Africa (old world) |
| French and Indian War | 1754 - 1763 war between England and France over the Ohio river Valley. England wins and pushed France out of North America |
| Battle of Saratoga | American Revolutionary Battle that becomes the turning point for the war as it convinces France to support us and gives the Colonists confidence. |
| Battle of Yorktown | American Revolutionary Battle that ends the War. The French blockade the coast and Washington surrounds Cornwallis who has to surrender his men and ending the war. |
| Mercantilism | England is to maintain a favorable balance of trade- export more than import Colonies - provide raw materials to the Englan (Mother Country) andalso buy finished goods from England. |
| Articles of Confederation | First Form of the government (1778-1789) Very Weak central Govt. States had more power than the government. Only a continental congress - no executive, no judicial branch. No way to enforce laws, no way to pay national debts. Shays's Rebellion showed that the govt was too weak. |
| The Great Compromise | Problem: Representation in Congress: Small states- Equal Representation 1 state 1 vote (unfair for large states) NJ Plan Large States - Representation based on population(unfair for small states) VA Plan Solution - (Great Compromise) Connecticut Compromise Bicamerial Legislative Branch Senate: two senators per state (NJ plan) House of Representatives (Proportional representation - Virginia Pan |
| The Executive Branch | Carries out laws, enforces the law President, vice president, and cabinet sign bills to become laws or Veto bills to stop a law Can negotiate treaties Commander and chief of armed force |
| Judicial Branch | Checks law, and interpret the meaning of laws and constitutional ideas. Can declare laws unconstitutional Can declare Executive actions unconstitutional |
| Legislative Branch | Congress passes laws Can overide a Presidents Veto Can Impeach Officials for crimes or abuse of power House of Representatives (lower House - makes law) Representation -based Population Senate (upper house- makes laws) 2 each state |
| Erie Canal | This man made 365 mile waterway connected NYC to Buffalo. Travel and trade went from months to a week. Shipping prices dropped by 90%. Cities built up around the canal and materials flowed to the Ohio River Valley |
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