Important vocabulary for US History Regents
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| Mayflower Compact | show 🗑
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| show | Economic theory used by Britain that a colony should benefit its mother country
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| Triangle Trade | show 🗑
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| French & Indian War | show 🗑
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| show | 1765: Tax passed by Parliament to tax the colonists. Colonists felt tax was unlawful: No taxation without representation
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| show | Founder of the Sons of Liberty and Committees of Correspondence; organized to protest the British policies in the colonies
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| show | 1776: Written by Thomas Jefferson defending the reasons for the American Revolution - the King ruled by a contract -King had broken contract -people could/should rebel
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| show | 1777-1787: First government of the United States; Loose union of 13 states; no president, no national court, no national army. Very inefficient
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| Northwest Ordinances | show 🗑
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| show | Rebellion of angry war veterans led by Daniel Shays. Showed the powerlessness of the Articles of Confederation
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| Constitutional Convention | show 🗑
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| Great Compromise | show 🗑
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| show | Upper house of Congress; every state gets 2 Senators. Can approve treaties and appointments Can conduct impeachment trials
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| House of Representatives | show 🗑
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| show | Power of Congress to override the Presidents veto; Requires a 2/3rd vote of BOTH houses
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| Necessary and proper clause | show 🗑
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| show | Ability of three branches of government to check or control the other branches
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| Veto | show 🗑
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| show | Division of power between the states and the national government
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| show | Powers that the states have: education, licenses, intrastate commerce
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| show | Powers that are given to the national government: coining money, declaring war, etc.
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| show | ability of the Supreme Court to review an law and declare it unconstitutional
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| Living document | show 🗑
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| show | Practices of the US Government that are not specifically written in the Constitution: political parties; judicial review; cabinet
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| show | Group of delegates who refused to sign the Constitution without the addition of a Bill of Rights
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| show | Essays written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay to encourage ratification of the Constitution
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| show | Ten amendments added to the Constitution to protect individual liberties
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| Whiskey Rebellion | show 🗑
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| Hamilton's Bank Plan | show 🗑
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| show | 1793: Washington declares that the US will stay out of European affairs. Sets a precedent for other presidents to follow.
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| show | 1801-1835: Supreme Court under John Marshall; Its decision strengthened the power of the national government
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| show | 1803 Court case: established judicial review
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| show | 1819 Court case: upheld the ability of the national government to create a bank
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| show | 1823: Foundation of US foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere -Stated that the Western Hemisphere (North/South America) was closed to European colonization
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| War Hawks | show 🗑
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| show | US declares war on Britian to assert independence and freedom of the seas, and to expand westward.
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| show | The use of canals, steamboats and railroads in the 1800's allowed for expansion west, cheaper goods, faster communication
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| Factory System | show 🗑
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| Immigration | show 🗑
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| Nativists "Know Nothings" | show 🗑
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| King Cotton | show 🗑
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| Andrew Jackson | show 🗑
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| Nullification Crisis (Tariff of 1828) | show 🗑
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| show | Jackson vetoed the renewal of the charter for the Bank of the US and withdrew all federal money from the bank to force it to close. Jackson felt the bank only served the rich and was not in the best interest of the country
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| show | 1838: Forced removal of the Cherokee indians to reservations in Oklahoma; hundreds died
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| Seneca Falls Convention | show 🗑
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| show | Movement to outlaw (abolish) slavery Leaders included Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, the Grimke sisters, and William Lloyd Garrison
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| show | Belief the US should expand to the Pacific Ocean and spread ideals of democracy and freedom
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| show | 1803: First step in Manifest Destiny:US purchases huge amount of land from France. Required a loose interpretation of the Constitution
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| Mexican War | show 🗑
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| show | 1820: Compromise over slavery in the Louisiana Territory. States north of a certain line had to be free states
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| Dred Scott v. Sanford | show 🗑
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| Compromise of 1850 | show 🗑
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| show | Made it illegal to help a runaway slave anywhere in the country-- even in a free state
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| Underground Railroad | show 🗑
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| show | 1852 Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe; highlighted the evils of slavery and made abolition popular in the north
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| show | 1854: Allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska popular sovereignty led to Bleeding Kansas
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