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General US HIstory
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| Question/ Vocab Term | Answer/Definition |
|---|---|
| Who were the fist exlorers to come to America? | Vikings, Eric the Red |
| Columbus voyage | landed in the Bahamas, thought it was India |
| Christopher Columbus | A spanish explorer that wanted to prove the world was round. He never realized that he landed in a new land. |
| monarch | another name for king or queen |
| Church of England | Started by King Henry VIII because he wanted a divorce and couldn't get one in the Catholic. |
| The Mayflower compact | The first exapmle of Self Government in the colonies. It was a document signed by all of the white males on the boat before they stepped on land. |
| The House of Burgesses in Virginia | The first representative assembly in the colonies. |
| Puritans | they settled in Massachusetts and were intolerant of other religons |
| 1607 | The year the first colony, Jamestown was establishe. |
| Jamestown | The first colony, located on the James River. |
| What cash crop helped save Jamestown and who introduced it? | Tobacco, introduced by John Rolfe |
| Reasons for coming to the new world | seeking fame, national pride, wealth, new trade routes,new products |
| Plymouth | Where the pilgrims landed and settled. |
| Squanto | Assisted the pilgrms in surviving, taught them how to fish, hunt, ect. |
| Spain wanted to... in America | convert Indians to catholics, search for gold |
| Maryland was founded... | ... by James Oglethorpe for a refuge for debters and to keep Spain awa from the other colonies |
| Sir Francis Drake | Defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588 and opened up the way for colonization for England |
| The Fundamenal Orders of Connecticut | Was the first Constitution in the American Colonies written in 1639 |
| New England Colonies Economy | center for trade, whaling, fishing, ship making |
| Great Awakening | a revival of religious enthusiasim that spread throughout New England in the 1600's |
| Middle Colonies (nick names) | The breadbasket colonies and the melting pot |
| Southern Economy | Based on growing cotton, indigo,tobacco, and rice NEEDED SLAVES |
| Middle Colonies Economy | grew grains and many trades from different ethnic groups |
| Western Bundary in 1600s | Appalachian Mountains |
| Boston, Philadelphia, and New York | major cities due to deep harbors |
| Triangular Trade | A trade system that went from the New England colonies, to Africa, and and then the West Indies. |
| Imports | Goods bought from other countries |
| Exports | Goods sold to other countries |
| French and Indian War | Fought between England and France over the Ohio River Valley. The Indians sided with France but ended up losing. |
| John Peter Zenger | Provided foundation for Freedom of the Press and said that was only libel if you printed false information that harmed a person's reputation |
| Magna Carta | Signed in 1215 by the King limiting the powers of the King, force him to consult a council, and gave the right to a jury |
| The English Bill of Rights | Garunteed citizens the right to a jury, free elections, prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. Established that government is based on laws, not the desires of a ruler. |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | Pontiac tried to unite the Native Americans to try to get their land back. It lead to the Proclomation of 1763 prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains |
| Mercantilism | An economic principle that says colonies are created to benefit the mother country. Caued colonists to resent England. |
| French claims in 1700 | claimed areas often near water route to search for a northwest passage |
| Indian-French Relationship | Positive, traded fur and food |
| Alban Plan of Union | A plan for the colonists to join and fight the French in the French and Indian war. He created the cartoon Join or Die. |
| John Locke | English philosipher, whose ideas contributed to the Declaration of Independence. |
| Enlightment | stressed reason and science over emotion |
| Boston Massacure | Redcoats in Boston shot 5 Bostonians. Paul revere took this as a chance to use as Propoganda. The soldires were cleared of wrongdoing. |
| Stamp Act | A tax on anything tht was paper such as cards, envelopes, stationary. ect. |
| Sons of Liberty | A group of Patriots lead by Samuel Adams that responded to the taxes with boycotts and protests |
| Yorktown | Last battle of the American Revolution |
| Midnight Ride | Paul Revere, William Dawes, and William Prescott rode to Concord warning the minuteman that the British were coming. Paul Revere was captured and only Prescott made it to Concord |
| First Shot | Made at Lexington (no one knows whh side) |
| casualties | the number of people that are either injured or dead in a battle |
| The Battl of Bunker Hill | Took place on Breed's Hill, British marched uphill 3 times, but finally the American ran out of amunition and surrendurred |
| Benedict Arnold | The traitor to America |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped Tea into the Boston harbor |
| Grievences | formal complaints |
| Quatering Act | The Act that colonists were to house and provide the supplies redcoats needed |
| Lafeyette | A french officer who served without pay to George Washngton |
| Baron von Steuben | a German soldier who drilled Washington's troops at Valley Forge |
| Thomas Paine | wrote common sense and the American Crisis |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Britian recognized America's Independence. Canada was English Territory, British leave forts in Ohio valley, US gets land from Atlantic to Mississippi |
| Northwest Ordinance | A awy of letting northwest territories join the Arcticales of Confederation as equal state |
| Arcicales of Confederation | no national courts, no executive leader, congress couldn't tax, states argue, |
| Shay's Rebellon | a revolt by Massachusetts farmers because enormous eb they were in. The Federal govt. had barely any power t stop the rebellion |
| Constitutional Convention 1787 | Took place in Philadelpha. was supposed to change the AOC, but they ended up writing a new sytem of govt. |
| James Madison | Father of the Constitution |
| Thomas Jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence, was not at the convention, in France representing America |
| Great Compromise | Legislative Branch would have two houses:the senate and the House of Reps. One voted on population, the other each state got 2 votes |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | That for every 5 men, 3 slaves would be counted in population voting |
| Anti-Federalists | Opposed the ratification of the constitution without a Bill of Rights- includes Gerorge Mason |
| Dred Scott | fought for his freedom after hs slave master died and brought him to where slavery was illegal |
| secede | when a state leaves the Union |
| calvary | soldiers on horsebck |
| Kansas- Nebraska Act | Stephen Douglas proposed that popular sovegnity decide whether slavery be allowed in territories |
| Bleeding Kansas | Fighting between anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups |
| Richmond Virginia | Capital of the Confederate States |
| Antietam | The bloodiest Day of fighting in American History. |
| Gettysburg | One of the two turning points of the war (this prevented the Confederates from headng North) |
| John Wilkes Booth | Lincoln's assasin |
| Clara Barton | "Angel of the Battlefield" who nursed soldiers and founded the red cross |
| bounty | cash payments made to men who volunteered for the army |
| lynch | To kill (hang) someone of a supposed crime without trial |
| Free Soil Party | a political party that was started to prevent the spread of slaery |
| Fort Sumter | The attack where the civil war began |
| Anaconda Plan | Lincoln's plan to smother the Southern's economy and cut off their supplies |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Issued on Jan. 1, 1863 as a military action that all slaves in the confederate states were free |
| 620,000 | number of soldiers that died in the Civil War |
| amnesty | an official pardon given to most ex-confederates |
| Civil Right Act | Congress overrided Johnson's veto |
| 13th Ammendment | Freed slaves throughout America |
| 14th Ammendment | Made African Americans citizens |
| 15th Ammendments | Gave African Americans the right to vote |
| black codes | limited the black's rights to the 1&2 ammendment |
| impeach | to formally accuse the president of wrongdoing in office |
| Jim Crow laws | when the black codes were outlawed the southerners created the Jim Crow laws that segregated African Americans |
| Freedman's Bureau | the federal agency which was set up to aid newly freed slaves wth schools, hospitals, ect. |
| Panic of 1873 | an economic depression while Grant was in office. banks and railroads closed, companies closed, and large unemployment factor |
| 13,14,15 ammendments | Reconstruction Ammendments |
| Plesy vs. Ferguson | The court case that ruled that "seperate but equal facilties" were allowed unger 14th ammendment. |
| Andrew Johnson | President during first part of reconstruction, was impeached and brought before the House, acquitted by one vote |
| Klu Klux Klan | a racist group that tried to keep blacks from voting by threats, lynching ect. |
| "Give me Liberty or give me death" | Patrich Henry- American Revolution |
| "Last full measure of devotion" | Abraham Lincoln- Gettysburg address |
| "These are the times that try man's souls" | Thomas Paine- The American Crisis |
| Popular Soverngty | our government is ruled by the people |
| Republicanism | Voting and electig leaders |
| Checks and Balances | each branch of government has a way to check another |
| George Washington | First President, set precedents or traditin for others to follow |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | kept immigrants from exspressing the 1st ammendment, found unconstitutional |
| Arron Burr | murdered Hamilton in a duel, vice president under Jefferson |
| Marbury vs. Madison | established the principle of judicial review |
| Napolean | Ruler of France who sold Jefferson the Lousisana Purchase in 1803 |
| 1803 | The year the LA purchase was bught by Jefferson, doubling the size of the US |
| Lewis and Clark | 2 explores sent to explore the new territory. They did not find a northwest passage, but they did find the source of the Missouri River and claim the land of California |
| Sacajawea | A woman that helped guide Lewis and Clark throught their journey, had a bay, reunited with her former tribe |
| Impressment | drafting soldires by force |
| Star Spangled Bannar | Our national anthem, written by Francis Scott Key when he was imprisoned on a British warship |
| Monroe Doctrine | warned Europe not to settle in MAerica or Latin America to avoid war |
| Jacksonian Democracy | Andrew Jackson became president and began to spread power to the common man |
| Indian Removal Acts | Declared that all Indians had to move to reservations, declared unconstitutional but reinforced anyway |
| Trail of Tears | The journey reinforced by military to force Cherokees to travel to reservations during the winter, most died |
| Martin van Buren | President during the Panic of 1837 when many bussinesses closed due to over printed paper money |
| William Henry Harrison | The first president to die in office |
| Manifest Destiny | The idea that AMerica would spread from sea to sea |
| Abolistionist | people who manted ot abolish slavery |
| Temperance Movement | A movement tha encouraged people to stop drinking alcohol |
| Undeground Railroad | A path slaves took to get to Canada where they could be free, most famous leader was Harriet Tubman |
| Sojouner Truth | A fromer slave and women's rights activist. Famous for her "A'nt I a Woman?" speech |
| Seneca Fall Convention | Discuss Womans rights, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, demanded suffrage for women |
| Susan B. Anthony | worked for suffrage & women's rights |
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