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53 Cards in this Set
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Three Sister Farming
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Corn Beans Squash
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Conquistadores
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Extinguished Aztec and Incan Empires. Professional soldiers and sailors, peasants artisans members of middle classes.
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England's first Successful Settlement.
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Jamestown Virgina (Inner part of Cheseapeake Bay)
Focused on gold but men died from idleness and winter. switched to land. |
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Sugar and Tobacco
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Tobacco-Poor man's crop
Creates soil erosion and its quickly grown Sugar-Rich man's crop Takes x3 much labor Longer to make profit but bettr profit |
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1649 Maryland Act
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Toleration for all of Christians Only
Propietor Lord Baltimore |
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Impact of Spanish Armada
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England won.
It dampened Spain's fighting spirit and gave England dominance in the North Atlantic. English travel to new world. |
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Barbados Slave Code
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It made children of slaves slaves.
Illegal to teach slaves how to read. African slaves have no rights. Slave for life and never free Slavery is main form of labor by 1700 |
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Mayflower Compact
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Elect representatives to make laws and govern.
Consent of the governed. |
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Puritan elect
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PRedestination
Ideas of John Calvin want to purify church of england |
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HeadRight System
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Whoever pays for the passage of a laborer gets 50 acres of land.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Cause: Only landowners can vote. Nathaniel Bacon organize people to end favoritism.
Result: Governor flees and Bacon takes control then British troops bring governor berkeley back. |
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Peter Zenger Case
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Zenger was brought to trial on charges of printing false and seditious statements about colonial officials
Freedom of the press is right |
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Albany Congress 1754
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Try to get Iroquois on Colonist side
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Proclamation of 1763
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Prohibited settlement in the area beyond the Appalachians
It was to work out the Indian problem fairly and prevent uprising |
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March of the Paxton Boys
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Pennsylvania 1763-1764
Attack and Raid Indians Shows regional tension and increased hostility towards indians |
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Stono Revolt
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black people
escape to florida epic fail stopped by the guys with guns |
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Navigation Laws
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Restrict Trade
only use british vessels |
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Mercantilism
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nations power is determined by how much gold or silver they have
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Battle of Saratoga
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most important battle
in revolution because the u.s won it france gave them support |
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Shay's Rebellion
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farmers had a hard time economically
like mortgages and debt and such so they rebelled and called for more paper money so they could pay off debts easier People demand a stonger central Gov |
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Virtual Representation
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british parliament said that us colonies were "virtually represented" in their gov
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Half Way Covenant
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basically it was part of the church
and it lowered the requirements to being a full member |
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Great Compromise
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(Connecticut Compromise)
Roger Sherman House of Rep: Based on Pop. House of Sen: equal # of Reps |
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Tenth Amendment
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It supported States Rights
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Alexander Hamilton's financial program
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BE FAT
Bank Excise Tax Funding at par Assuming state debt Tariff |
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Whiskey Rebellion of 1794
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Excise Tax on Whiskey
help pay off debt because whiskey popular push people to democratic republican party |
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Washington's Farewell Address
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warned against political parties'factions
and warned against foreign affairs and isolationism |
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Used to silence Democ. Repub.
Make sure Jefferson isnt Pres. Prevent immigrants from becoming citizen Sedition Act: if you spoke against Gov. imprison or fine |
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Revolution of 1800
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to jefferson it was a revolution because he would bring reform to people
to the people it was a revolution because the transfer over power between presidents was smooth |
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Marbury v. Madison
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Marbury sue Jefferson
he did not get judgeship from midnight appointment writ of mandamus |
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Impressments
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British stop all trade with US and take sailors
something to do with the french |
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Hartford Convention
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Add 7 amendments to the constitution
end to 3/5 compromise try to limit repub. power Death of Fed. Party |
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Madison and Internal improvements
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Approves second Bank of US
Tariff of 1816 |
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Missouri Compromise
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North is free
South stays slave states 36 30 |
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Andrew Jackson and the Bank of US
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Wants to get rid of Bank
it only helps the rich |
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Oregon Treaty with England
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joint ocupation
all land shared |
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Nativism
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Anti-Foreigners
Foreigners took all the jobs because they worked for cheap. |
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Spoils System
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the practice of giving appointive offices to loyal members of the party in power.
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Henry Clay and the American System
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tariffs, money for internal improvements and bank
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John C. Calhoun and his influence
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Supported South and Slavery
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Nullification Crisis
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South threatens to secede because of Tariff of 1828.
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Force Bill
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Can use army to force people to follow Tariffs
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Cotton Gin
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Revived Slavery
international product |
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Corrupt Bargain
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Between Adams and Clay.
Clay helped Adams so Adams gave Clay the seat of Secretary of State |
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Second Great Awakening
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it was emotional, appealing to the common classes, and was a national movement.
it spawned a series of other movements: prison reform, temperance (movement to ban alcohol), and abolition of slavery. |
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Mormons
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Mormons ran into troubles with their neighbors due to polygamy (having multiple wives), drilling a militia, and voting as a block.
Joseph Smith |
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Utopian Communities
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Brooks Farm
Oneida: Steel Traps |
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Cult of Domesticity
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Women had almost no role outside of the home, but they owned and ran the homes.
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Aroostook War
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Feuding Lumberjacks
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Wilmot Proviso
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Do not make slave states out of Mexican land
Senate did not pass this |
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Start of War with Mexico
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Rio Grande
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It stirred the North's sense of morality against slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison published a radical abolitionist newspaper titled The Liberator
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