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history final
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happens in 1607? | Jamestown is founded in Virginia by the Virginia joint stock company |
| What was the Virginia joint stock? | the first permanent English colony |
| What happened in 1609 | Plymouth was founded and Pilgrims traveled there and signed the mayflower compact |
| What was the Mayflower compact | It established rules and laws for pilgrims. self government |
| What jobs did New England colonies do | fishing, whaling, ship building, shipping, trade, manufacturing, and fur trading |
| What was the Atlantic Triangular Trade? | colonists hated the navigation acts so they had smuggling routes that like the Middle passage. |
| What were the navigation acts? | It forced colonists to only trade with England |
| What was the Middle passage? | a smuggling route that transported slaves from Africa to the West indies. |
| What did the middle colonies economy include | bread baskets |
| What are bread baskets | cash crop that could be used to make bread |
| What did the South colonies economy include | tobacco and plantation systems. |
| What is mercantilism | The rule that stated countries could only trade with britain |
| example of self government | mayflower compact, Virginia house of burgesses, fundamental orders of Connecticut |
| What was the American reaction to the sugar act | no taxation without represenation |
| what was the American reaction to the stamp act | protests and the sons of liberty |
| what was the American reaction to the quartering act | Boston massacre |
| what were the battles of Lexington and concord | the first battles of the revolution |
| who was the declaration of independence written by | Thomas Jefferson |
| What did the battle of Saratoga influence | influenced foreign nations to support American in its war against england. |
| was the battle of Saratoga a turning point in the war? | YES |
| What was the treaty of paris | It set boundaries of the new nation from the mississippi river to the west |
| What were the articles of confederation | first attempt at a nation government for the US written and and adopted in 1781 during the revolution |
| What did federalist support | supported ratification but opposed the BOR bc it was too strict for individual rights |
| what did ant-federalists support | opposed ratification and supported the BOR bc it clarified individual rights |
| what was John adams know for | XYZ affair and alien and sedition acts |
| what were the alien acts | it allowed presidents to imprison anyone suspected to be a threat |
| what were the sedition acts | made it a crime to "print, utter, or publish... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the U.S. government, Congress, or the president |
| what was Thomas jefferson known for | the Louisiana purchase, embargo acts, and marburg v madison |
| what was James Monroe known for | The Monroe doctrine and Adams-Onis treaty |
| What was the spoils system | when Jackson fired people that didn't support him and hired his political allies instead |
| Bank of the US | when jackson didn't trust the bank and vetoed it and removed all the money, causing the economy to collapse. |
| what was the nullification process | when congress passed a series of taxes on protective tariffs so VP John Calhoun resigns and returns to his home in South Carolina, where he begins to draft legislation to nullify the law |
| what was the Indian removal act | when law forces all tribes in Southeastern US to move to reservations in Oklahoma |
| what was the Trail of Tears | when 1/4 of the Cherokee nation dies along the way to Oklahoma |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea that Americans have a given right for the US to span from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean |
| the Louisiana purchase | when land from the mississippi to the rocky mountains was purchased from France for 15 million dollars. |
| what was the Missouri compromise? | a compromise that stated everything north of Louisiana latitude line except Missouri would be free territory. Everything south of the line would be slave territory |
| what happened in the compromise of 1850? | Fugitive slave act- angers many northerners because it allows slave catchers to kidnap and take back into slavery anyone they find without a trial and prosecute anyone helping runaways |
| What was BLEEDING KANSAS? sounds delicious | Kansas Nebraska act passed allowing both areas in Louisiana territory to use popular sovereignty instead of the Missouri compromise. johnn brown leads vicious attack on pro-slavery activists |
| what happened when Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 | south carolina is the first to seced, creating the confederate states of america |
| what was the battle of vicksburg | A turning point in the war |
| Why was the battle of Saratoga a turning point in the revolutionary war? | By forcing the surrender of the british army, it shattered Britain's strategy to divide the colonies , boosted on patriot morale, and proved to the world that the fragile new nation could legitimately fight a superpower. |
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