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Chapter 7 YAWP vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gabriel's Rebellion | Enslaved person who planned to end slavery, sent multiple threats to Virginia's white residents. Suggested that slaves were capable of carrying out violent revolution. |
| Haitian Revolution | 1791 -1804 - inspired free and enslaved Black Americans and scared white Americans. successful slave rebellion in the French colony of saint Domingue. sparked by English enlightenment ideas. lead to the abolition of slavery |
| Notes of sate of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1784, stated that black people were incapable of mental improvement, that they might have a separate ancestry. Benjamin Banneker wrote to him and argued against his ideas. |
| Race | Concepts were both challenged and reinforced following the American revolution. many black Americans drew from Haitian rev. to advocate for freedom. white supremacists tried to create scientific and social justifications for slavery. |
| Republican motherhood | beliefs that women were essential to nurturing principles of liberty in citizenships. |
| Louisiana purchase | Jefferson authorized acquisition of Louisiana from France in way that is considered largest real estate in American history |
| Embargo (act of 1807) | foreign policy from Jefferson American ports were closed to all foreign trade in hopes of personal avoiding war. hurt Americans economy and Jefferson's personal financial personal finances. Most outrage from Jefferson's federalist critics. |
| Sally Hemmings | One of Jefferson's female slaves. Jefferson was in a sexual "relationship" with her. |
| play-off system | 1st prior to the revolution, many native American nations had balanced a delicate diplomacy between European empires. |
| Tenskwatawa | brother of Tecumseh. prophet who helped envision alliance with north Americas indigenous pops. to stop encroachments of US. stressed the need for cultural and religious renewal. |
| Tecumseh | Shawnee leader. Traveled to many diverse Native nations from Canada to Georgia calling for unification, restoration, and resistance of sacred power. |
| red sticks | Led by Hillis Hadjes. integrated certain religious tenets from north and invented new religious practices specific to the creeks while communicating with Tecumseh after he left the country. |
| Impressment | Forcing American sailors to join the British Navy |
| War Hawks | Group that included men who would remain influential long after war of 1812. Ex. Henry Clay and John Calhoun. "Too young to remember rev. horrors, therefore willing to risk it again" |
| Andrew Jackson | Cut red sticks off from North. Helped defeat the red sticks. Victory in battle of Horseshoe Bend. |
| Hartford convention | newspapers accused delegates of plotting succession |
| Star spangled banner | written by poet Francis Scott Key |
| Internal improvements | Roads and canals to let people take American good to market |
| American system | included new bank of US, high protective tariff, network of internal improvements. |
| Monroe Doctrine | Document that declared that US considered entire hemisphere off-limits to European colonization |