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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Peter Muhlenberg | Lutheran minister who supported Revolutionary War. Used verse from Ecclesiastes, "To everything there is a season... a time of peace and a time of war. And this is the time of war." |
| Benjamin Rush | One of the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia. Surgeon General in the Revolutionary War. A delegate supporting the Constitution. Then served as the Treasurer of the U.S. Mint. Helped bridge rift between T. Jefferson and J. Adams. |
| Jonathan Trumbull Sr. | Studied Theology at Harvard and later served as a colonial governor of Connecticut. The only colonial governor to support the American cause. Because of this he became the only governor to remain in office after independence. |
| Charles Carroll | Born in Maryland, educated in Europe. Quickly became involved in the rev. spirit and returned to home. One of the delegates to the Contin. Congress. He was not there to vote on the Decl. of Ind. he signed it. Last surviving signer of Decl. of Ind. |
| John Jay | Member of the 2nd Continental Congress. Was with John Adams & Ben Frank. in Paris to sign the treaty ending the war. Wrote 85 Federalist essays. First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| John Hancock | Spoke against the British Stamp Act. First signer of the Declaration of Independence. First Governor of Massachusetts but died while serving his 9th term. |
| John Witherspoon | Born in Scotland, moved to New Jersey to be the President of Princeton University, & prominent Presbyterian minister. Voted for and signed the Declar. of Indep. Helped draft the Art.s of Confed. and voted to adopt the Constitution. |
| Articles of Confederation | Granted the new govt. the right to borrownand make (coin) money, conduct foreign affairs, make policy for Am. Indians, and settle disputed 'tween states. Each state kept sovereignty. (weakness) NW ORD. gave each new state same power as 1st 13. (strength) |
| Civil War Dates | 4-12-1861 to 4-09-1865. (4 Aprils) |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Where Grant and Lee met for the South to surrender. |
| Black Codes | laws that resembled pre-Civil War slave codes. Later became Jim Crow laws. |
| Jim Crow laws | Like the Black Codes to deprive African Americans rights. These enforced segregation, on train cars and schools. |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | v (1896) established the idea of "separate but equal." Takes place on a Louisiana train, where it was decide that the cars were equally clean and safe, there was no limit of rights. (even if no comfort) |
| Bill of Rights | 1st 10 Amendments |
| Panama Canal | began by the French in 1881 but left unfinished because of bankruptcy. US began to work on it in 1901. (T. Roosevelt) Opened for shipping in 1914. |
| M. A. N. I. A. + Z + UnS | Causes of WWI. M=Militarism A=alliances N=nationalism I=imperialism A=assassination. Z=Zimmerman note UnS=unrestricted submarine warfare We got involved in 1917 after Germany declare UnS |
| Dates of Spanish American War | 4-24-1898 to 8-12-1898 |
| Rough Riders | famous group of cowboys fought in Spanish American War. Leader was T. Roosevelt. Famous battle was San Juan Hill. |
| Maine | Ship that was in Havana Harbor. Explodes & newspapers blame Spain. Used as a cry to go to war. Later it is revealed that the Maine explodes from within. |
| Open Door policy | idea began with President McKinley, then T. Roosevelt used this as a way to force China to trade with the World. |
| Big Stick dilomacy | because of Americas growing involvement in world affairs, T. Roosevelt "walk softly carry big stick" came to be known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Docterine |
| 1914 | WWI begins in Europe. |
| Salvation Army | reform through Christian Faith |
| J.D Rockefeller | owned standard oil- robber baron |
| Scott Joplin | rag time composer- Texarkana TX |
| A. Carnegie | Gospel of wealth- believed he should repay society for his riches-robber baron |
| Ma Jones | immigrant from Ireland- united mine workers |
| Ida Tarbell | muckraker- wrote articles critical of standard oil |
| Conelius Vanderbilt | built largest steamboat fleet-built grand central station- robber baron |
| S. Gompus | union leader of AFI |
| B. T. Washington | former slave- wanted blacks to focus on education instead of voting |
| Ida B. Wells | crusaded against lynching |
| G. Washington Carver | agriculture- specialized in helping sharecroppers depleted soil, poverty, poor nutrition |
| W. J. Bryan | ran for president 1896-1900 on populism and silver |
| W.E. B. Dulois | wrote Souls of Black Folk- Never a Slave- wanted voting rights |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | woman's voting rights |
| White Man's Burden | White people to govern |
| isolationism | Avoiding involvement in world affairs |
| Imperialism | Nation to exercise control over a smaller weaker nation |
| Diplomacy | Conditioning international relations |
| Prohibition | Banning Alcoholic beverages |
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