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Week 7 history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Star-Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key wrote anthem when he watched British warships bombard Fort McHenry |
| Gabriel's Rebellion | 1000 enslaved men plotted an attack to capture Virginia governor. 26 plotters were hanged as a warning, harsher laws were made against free black people. |
| Classifying humanity (enlightenment thinkers...) | Carolus Linneaus divided people by skin color, hair, and cranial measurement (" civilized" vs. "primitive"). |
| Polygenesis and removal | Jefferson embraced polygenesis (seperate creations), and believed Black people incapable of improvement. |
| The rebuttal | Abolitionists and Black Americans rejected and insisted that all people were "all of one flesh," with "the same sensations" and "same faculties." |
| The "Revolution of 1800" : Jeffersonian Republicans | Government led by the will of the people Ordinary citizens capable of self-rule Wider voting, lower barriers to office Frugal, limited federal power |
| The "Revolution of 1800" : Federalists | Rule bye a "natural aristocracy" of elites Common man too emotional to be trusted Feared democracy as mob rule Strong central, paternalistic government |
| Republican Simplicity | A deliberate style of humility and frugality - a pointed rejection of monarchical pomp. Jefferson wanted Americans to see the difference between republican way and Federalist ceremony. |
| Republican Simplicity Contradiction | -Loathed political maneuvering- yet excelled at it -Preached government frugality- yet nearly bankrupted himself on wine, art, etc -Wrote "all men are created equal"- bought, bred, sold enslaved. -Called slavery a "hideous blot"- yet profited from it |
| Republican Motherhood | the belief that women sustained the republic by raising children in its values. |
| Women | Nurturing citizens, literacy doubled, voices for reform |
| Small Government and the Yeoman Farmer | Hamilton faced East (toward Europe & Britains as the model of a nation) Jefferson faced WEST (believed westward expansion could spare America Europe's urban misery and build nation of self-sufficient yeoman farmers. 3000 (army Jefferson capped), less tax |
| The Louisiana Purchase | Slave revolt in haiti led france to cut its losses in the New World and sell. $15 mil (largest real-estate deal in US) 28 cents (price per acre) 2x the size of the young nation |
| The Barbary War | North African states seized ships. U.S. marines marched 500 miles across desert to strike Tripoli's second city. Ransom fell to $60000, far cheaper than war. |
| The Embargo Act of 1807 | After Britain attacked the USS Chesapeake, Jefferson closed American ports to foreign trade. Costed the economy, wiping out 80% of shipping revenue. Jefferson had the "tyrant" label due to expanding federal power he once opposed. |
| The Burr Conspiracy: The Duel | President Aaron Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel on New Jersey palisades. Burr shot him through ribs, Hamilton died shortly after. |
| The Burr Conspiracy: The Plot | Burr schemed to split the lower Mississippi Valley from the Union as an independent republic, with New Orleans its capital and him as ruler. Burr was tried for treason. Chief Justice Marshall found evidence wanting, Burr fled to Europe. |
| The Shawnee brothers | Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa built a pan-tribal alliance to halt white enroachment, urging Native peoples to reject European goods and revive spiritual power agains "white people's way" |
| Order of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa | Battle of Tippecanoe shatters the confederation's base, British forces launch into American territory, Tecumseh falls in Ontario allying with Britain, resisting collapses. |
| The War of 1812: | 6000+ Americans impressed into the Royal Navy 900 U.S. merchant ships seized by Britain and France British supplied Native tribes to raid U.S. Settlers Madison asks Congress for war on June 1-> US is at war w Britain a second time. |
| Key moments of the war: Old Ironsides | USS Constitution pounds HMS Guerriere |
| Key moments of the war: Washington burns | British troops march on capital and burn White house and public buildings |
| Key moments of the war: Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson' victory becomes a morale-lifting triumph. |
| The treaty of Ghent | Officially ended the war, but surge of patriotism it left behind mattered more |
| King Cotton and the Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney's cotton gin cleaned in an hour what once took a day. Even after the 1808 ban on the international slave trade, enslaved population soared as "King Cotton" spread across Deep South. |
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