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42 Cards in this Set
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Northwest Ordinance 1787 |
established procedures for expansion of the U.S, explained tat new states were equal to already admitted states |
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The Great Compromise |
created congress, number of representation in house of rep is determined by population. Each state gets two senates |
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republicanism |
system of representative government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
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federalism |
sharing of power between state and national government |
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James Madison was also known as.... |
the father of the constitution |
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due process |
how laws are enforced fairly (4-8 amendment) |
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9th amendment |
we get more rights than what is written in the constitution |
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John Marshall |
chief justice that ruled over several important supreme court decisions that helped strengthen one federal gov. power over the states |
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Gibbons vs. Odens 1824 |
federal government regulates interstate commerce |
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Robert Fulton |
invented the steamboat |
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Samuel Morse |
invented telegraph 1835 |
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Eli whitney |
cottin gin (1793), interchangeable parts |
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nullification |
the idea of a state declaring a federal law unconstitutional |
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daniel webster |
mass. congressman and senator
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John C. Calhoun |
south Carolina congressman |
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" The great compromisor" kentucky congressman and senator proposed compromise of 1850 |
Henry clay |
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popular sovreignty |
constitutional principle that asserts people have the right to make decisions for themselves (people rule) |
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helped speed up the process of westward expansion as settlements and towns grew along the railroad routes |
transcontinental railroad |
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indigenous |
produced, grown, living naturally in a particular region or environment |
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The Erie Canal |
man-made waterway that allowed for more efficient movement of manufactured goods and raw materials from the Atlantic ocean to the great lakes |
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Horace Man |
known as the father of education |
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Compromise of 1850 |
tired to solve the divisions between free and slave states or territories |
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Former slave became a well known abolisionist |
frederick douglass |
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date of the Civil war |
1861-1865 |
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assassinated president Lincoln |
John Wilkes Booth |
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Awarded congressional medal of honor |
william carney & phillip bazaar |
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19th amendment |
gender equality in voting |
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middle colonies |
pennsylvania, delaware, new york, new jersey |
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middle colonies-important peeps |
quakers, william penn |
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middle colonies-reason founded/resources |
economics/ metal & farming |
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new england colonies |
new hampshire, mass., rhode island, conneticut |
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new england colonies-important peeps |
pilgrims, puritans, william bradford, roger williams, thomas hooker |
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new england colonies-reason founded/resources |
religious freedom/lumber, fishing, furs, shipbuilding |
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southern colonies |
north and south carolina, georgia, virgina, maryland |
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southern colonies-important peeps |
john smith, slaves, james olgethorpe |
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southern colonies-reason founded/resources |
economics/cash crops |
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Wentworth Cheswell |
first african american elected into public office |
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punishment for boston tea party |
intolerable acts |
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oregon treaty (1846) |
got oregon |
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hamper |
restrict or interfere |
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barter |
trade goods without use of money |
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heresy |
religious opinion opposed to doctrines of a church |