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First Semester Final
Final Exam Review Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Results of Early European exploration and colonization | Redistribution of the Worlds population |
| Group that settled in Massachusetts to avoid religious persecution | Puritains |
| Majority of Virginia Settlers were | Seeking Economic Opportunity |
| In 1607 The Virginia Company of London Established | Jamestown |
| People who worked for a set number of years in return for paid passeges to the colonies | Indentured Servants |
| 1st Elected Assembly in the New World | House of Burgesses |
| Had the most disasterous impact on Native Americans | Disease |
| Type of economy that led to the introduction of slavery into the New World | Large Scale Agriculture |
| Religious Movement that swept through the colonies in the mid 1700s | Great Awakening |
| Refers to the movement of slaves from Africa to America | Middle Passage |
| Fishing, Shipbuilding, Lumbering, Small Subsistance Farming and eventually Manufacturing | New England Economy |
| 13 American Colonies were expected to provide Great Britain with raw materials and markets fro British products | Mercantilism |
| In the Declration of Independance John Locke's theory of social contract | All power resides in the people |
| English immigrant that challenged the rule of the American colonies, in a pamphlet known as | Thomas Paine and Common Sense |
| Group that supported the right for independance from Great Britain | Patriots |
| Primary Purpose of the Declaration of Independance | List of grievances against the King of England |
| American Revolution began with a battle at | Lexington and Concord |
| Main weaknesses of US government under the Articles of Confederation | Did not have enough power to rule effectively |
| Most significant change in the government from Articles of Confederation to the Constitution | Strengthening the power of the federal government |
| The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention | Giving each state 2 senators and a number of representatives based on population |
| Counting the slave population for the purpose of representation | 3/5ths Compromise |
| Framers of the Constitution idea to limit the power of the central government | 3 Branches of Government and Checks and Balances |
| Purpose of having a Presidential veto | Checks and Balances |
| Principle of Federalism | The division of power between state and national government |
| The writing of the Federalist papers persuaded | states to ratify the Constitution |
| Late 1780's key states were persuaded to ratify the Constitution by | Promise of an added bill of rights |
| Group that supported strong national government and wanted the Constitution without the Bill of Rights | Federalists |
| Wrote teh Bill of Rights and the Virginia Plan | James Madison |
| Concepts of the Bill of Rights were derived from | Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom |
| Bill of Rights protected and individuals rights to | assemble and petition the government |
| Political parties formed because | Differences arose from political and economic issues |
| Late 1790's Federalists were led by Alexander Hamilton...the Anti Federalists (Decomractic Republicans actually) were led by | Thomas Jeffereson |
| Significance of President Washington sending federal troops to end the Whiskey Rebellion | Showed the strength of the federal government |
| Importance of the election of 1800 | First peacful transfer of power between political parties |
| If Jefferson had strictly adhered to the Constitution | he would have never made the Louisiana Purchase |
| Marbury v. Madison | The right of the Supreme Court to declare an act of congress unconstitutional |
| Reason the US went to war with Great Britain in 1812 | Britain was interfering with US foreign trade and impressing (capturing) sailors |
| Adams-Onis treaty gave us Florida. What country was it with? | Spain |
| Monroe Doctrine established a warning to | Europe not to interfere with the Western Hemisphere |
| Who began replacing high ranking members of the Executive Branch when a new President takes office | Andrew Jackson |
| Result of Andrew Jackson's rechartering the Bank of the United States | Major Economic Depression |
| Texas and Mexico's revolt was at a former mission called | The Alamo |
| The goal of Manifest Destiny | Expansion of the US westward to the Pacific |
| US governments policy towards Native Americans | Showed misunderstanding of their culture and values |
| Forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears | Cherokee |
| Responsible for the acquisition of Mexico's northern territories | Mexican American War |
| 1800-1865 Issue of state's rights, tariff and slavery led to | Sectionalism |
| Slavery was economically important due to | Cotton Gin |
| Missouri Compromise | Balance of slave and free states was maintained |
| People who wanted to end slavery | Abolitionists |
| Antislavery Newspaper | The Liberator |
| Former slave that spoke out about the abolition of slavery | Fredrick Douglas |
| Kansas and Nebraska deciding for themselves about the issue of slavery | Popular Sovereignty |
| Dredd Scott Sumpreme Court Decision protected | the rights of slave owners |
| Elizabeth C. Staton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony | Sufferage for women |
| Harpers Ferry VA slave rebellion leader | John Brown |
| Formal withdrawl of a state from the Union | Secession |
| At the beginning of the Civil War Lincoln fought to | Preserve the Union |
| Three part Union plan to defeat the south | 1.Blockade the South's Coast 2. Gain Control of the Mississippi 3. Capture Richmond |
| One advantage of the Confederacy | Oustanding military leadership |
| Battle that split the Confederacy into two | Vicksburg |
| Emancipation Proclomation | 1. Gave moral purpose 2. Kept Great Britain from helping the South 3. Freed slaves in areas rebelling against the Union |
| Three day battle, high casualties for North and South, and turning point of the Civil War | Gettysburg |
| All men are created equal-Abraham Lincoln | Gettysburg Address |
| Example of Total War | Shermans march from Atlanta to Savannah |
| Name of the Union general that lee surrendered to at Appomatox | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Amendment that ended slavery in the US | 13th Amendment |
| In charge of Reconstruction in the South | Radical Republicans in Congress |
| All persons born or naturalized in the US are citizens of the nation | 14th Amendment |
| During Reconstruction...northern businessmen who moved south to take advantage of the situation | Carpetbaggers |
| No one can be kept from voting because of race | 15th Amendment |
| Ex slaves starting free life with nothing were helped by | Freedmans Buerau |
| Andrew Johnson was | Impeached |
| Reconstruction ended when Rutherford B. Hayes was elected and Republicans had to | Withdraw federal troops from the south |
| Jim Crow Laws | Separated the races |
| The ruling of the Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson | Racial segregation in pubilic facilities was legal |
| Early 20th Century African Americans moved to Northern cities to escape poverty and discrimination in the South | The Great Migration |
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