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82 Cards in this Set
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Maize (corn) |
Cultivated by the mayans and incas as an important stable food supply |
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Horses |
introduced by the Europeans, the Indians eventually acquired these animals |
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Disease |
Something the Europeans brought which the Indians had no defense against and lost millions of people to |
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Encomienda system |
The Spanish king granted indian slaves and land to individual spaniards |
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King Philip's war |
A series of battles between between colonists and wompanowogs colonists overall won |
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Bacon's rebellion |
A group of Virginia settlers who revolted against the Virginia governor who was not adequately protecting them from the indians |
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Salutary neglect |
The king would let the colonists govern themselves for the most part |
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Mercantilism |
The economic theory of having all profits around the government go to the govt |
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Chattel slavery |
Humans are sold and bought like property |
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Great awakening |
Religious revival time |
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Proclomation of 1763 |
Determined after the French and indian war said colonists could not move past the Appalachians |
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Taxation without representation |
The thing that really caused the colonists to revolt since they had to pay things for no reason |
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Thomas Paine |
Wrote common sense |
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Common sense |
A pamphlet about why colonists should disobey the British government |
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Articles of confederation |
No central government - weak state govt though appealed to the anti- federalist |
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3/5 compromise |
Agreement that when taking a census, slaves only counted for 3/5 of a person for population |
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Federalist papers |
Essays promoting the ratification of the constitution |
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Anti federalist |
Believed in state govs and eventually became the democratic republicans |
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Slave trade act |
In 1807 in banned the slave trade |
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Northwest ordinance |
Defined how new states could enter the union in the northwest |
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George Washingtons farewell address |
Promoted international isolationism and neutrality |
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Marbury vs madison |
Established the process of judicial review by the supreme court of the us constitution |
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Andrew jackson |
Common man president abused supreme court and constitution |
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Democrats |
Emerged after Andrew Jackson new political party |
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Whigs |
Similar to federalists they believed in strong central govt opposed Jackson pro us bank high tariffs etc |
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National bank |
Idea for banking by Alexander Hamilton that would be partially owned in the private sector and partially owned by the federal govt |
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Henry clay |
Made American system speaker of the house for three terms |
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Second great awakening |
Another religious revival |
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Temperance |
Promotion of modesty and not drinking and gluttony |
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Seneca falls convention |
Early womans rights convention started by Elizabeth candy staton and lucretia mott |
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Telegraph |
New method of long communication much faster than pony express |
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American system |
Economic system made by henry clay to improve and unify America with infrastructure |
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Louisiana purchase |
Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the country for 15 million dollars |
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Monroe doctrine |
Set up future foreign policy of opposing European presence in the americas |
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Missouri compromise |
1820 set up the line for which new states could have slavery and which couldnt |
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Manifest destiny |
Concept that America had the right and future to expand in the world |
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Free soil movement |
Anti slavery men in the north created this to stop slavery in the new territories |
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Underground railroad |
Group that helped slaves escape to the north |
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Dred Scott decision |
Supreme court found that African Americans are not us citizens |
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Kansas Nebraska act |
1854 allowed popular sovereignty to decide for themselves whether to have slavery in the new territories or not |
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Mexican American war |
After the annexation of Texas this armed conflict started because Mexico still considered Texas its own |
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Emancipation proclomation |
After victory at antietam Lincoln declared that all slaves in rebelling states would be set free, aimed to injure the confederacy |
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13th amendment |
Passed in 1865 completely abolishing slavery |
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14th amendment |
Gave freed slaves new citizenship rights |
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15th amendment |
African American men are given the right to vote |
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Sharecropping |
A land owner allows a tenant to use land in return for profits and crops - basically still slavery |
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Populist party |
Mostly made up of farmers this party was a very left party designed to appeal to workers across the country |
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Boom towns |
Towns that started in the middle of nowhere where mining was big |
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Gospel of wealth |
Written by Andrew Carnegie it justified the need for extremely rich and poor people |
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Jane addams |
Started the hull house in chicago |
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Settlement houses |
These helped immigrants assimilate to American life by providing services like English classes and stuff |
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Plessy vs Ferguson |
Court case that upheld racial segregation legality |
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1920 census |
Determined that more people lived in urban areas than in rural areas |
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Great depression |
After the stock market crashed from excessive credit use and dumb tariffs this happened |
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Muckrakers |
Nickname for reformer journalists in the progressive era |
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18th amendment |
Started us prohibition |
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19th amendment |
Granted women's suffrage |
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Progressive era |
Period of widespread social activism between 1890 and 1920 |
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New deal |
Fdrs plan for fixing the great depression highly controversial and at times inconstitutional |
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Relief recovery and reform |
Three rs to summarize the new deal |
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Espionage and sedition acts |
During ww1 these were put in place to prohibit citizens from expressing opinions that interfered with the us military's efforts in the war |
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Alien and sedition acts |
Severely limited immigration and did many unconstitutional things to immigrants |
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Harlem renaissance |
Artistic musical and social explosion that took place in Harlem during the 20s |
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Red scare |
National fear of communists after the bolshevik revolution |
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Frontier thesis |
Fredrick jackson Turner said the frontier era was completely over |
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Island hopping |
Us strategy for Japan theater |
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Japanese internment |
In fear of espionage, the govt put citizens of this ethnicity into camps during ww2 |
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Isolationism |
The foreign policy that the us has tried to maintain but has always failed |
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Treaty of Versailles |
Ended ww1 but lacked many adequate conditions |
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Woodrow Wilson |
Proposed league of nations but didnt join because he did not like the way other countries wanted to do it |
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Anti imperialists |
Americans who were against expansion past us mainland |
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Great migration |
Many African Americans moved from the south to northern cities to find industrial jobs |
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Containment |
Us foreign policy towards communism |
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Detente |
Periods of lighter tension during the cold war |
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Korean war |
Stalemate |
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Vietnam war |
Widely unpopular by the American public we eventually left especially after the test offensive |
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Military industrial complex |
When the govt starts spending more and more money on the nations military |
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Truman doctrine |
Official declaration of containment |
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Marshall plan |
Paying European countries to repair them after ww2 largely on the condition they didnt adopt communism |
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Brown vs the board of education |
Supreme court case that outlawed segregation in public schools |
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Civil rights act of 1964 |
Outlawed any segregation of public facilities |
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Lyndon Johnson |
He was given total power in vietnam and did lots of bombings |
