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36 Cards in this Set
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What three things did the Signers pledge to each other? |
Their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor |
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What are the inalienable rights? |
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
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What are the first 10 amendments called?
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Bill of Rights |
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What five freedoms does the first amendment guarantee? |
freedom of speech, religion, petition, assembly, and press |
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What does the second amendment give us the right to do? |
bear arms (weapons) |
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In 1588, the defeat of who is one of the most famous events in English history? |
the Spanish Armada |
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The introduction of which crop helped Jamestown's economy began to thrive? |
tobacco |
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What was the primary reason for the Jamestown colony? |
England wanted to own some of this new land mass (North America) so they decided to settle as quickly as possible before other countries got to it |
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What was the primary reason for the Plymouth colony? |
The Pilgrims settled in Plymouth for religious freedom (Separatists/Puritans) |
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What document was signed by all the men on the Mayflower? |
the Mayflower Compact |
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Define mercantilism. |
Economic philosophy or practice in which England established the colonies to provide raw materials to the Mother Country; the colonies received manufactured goods in return (also really unfair) |
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Name three reasons for the American Independence movement. |
taxation without representation, Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts (etc.) |
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Name two ministers of the Great Awakening. |
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield |
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What was the name of Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon? |
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
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What was the name of the United States' first government? |
The Articles of Confederation |
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The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of what? |
The U.S. Constitution |
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What were the first two political parties in America? Who represented each party? |
Federalists: Alexander Hamilton Democratic-Republicans: Thomas Jefferson |
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The Louisiana Purchase was from what country? Under what president did this take place? |
France; Thomas Jefferson |
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What two explorers led an expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804-06? |
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark |
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The British bombing of what city inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem he entitled, "The Star-Spangled Banner?" |
Baltimore (Fort McHenry) |
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British forces mounted a major attack on New Orleans, only to meet defeat at the hands of what future U.S. president? |
Andrew Jackson |
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What period in American history is generally considered to be the period before the civil war and after the War of 1812? |
Antebellum Period |
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Name three differences between life in the North vs. life in the South? |
Northern life is industrial with immigrants coming in with the South is agrarian and condones slave labor. |
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Who invented the cotton gin? |
Eli Whitney |
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What was king in the South? |
cotton |
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What outlined the rights of slaves and the acceptable treatment and rules regarding slaves? |
Slave Codes |
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In 1838, the army removed the Cherokee and about 2,000 died in camps waiting to be taken westward. What was this event called? |
The Trail of Tears |
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Tocqueville's Democracy in America states that there are five things that make America exceptional. What are these things? |
Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and a Laissez-Faire government |
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What is the therm for the attitude prevalent in the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast? |
Manifest Destiny |
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In what year did the U.S. Congress admit Texas as a constituent state of the Union? |
1845 |
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What treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to the U.S. Territory? From what war was this land added? |
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; the Mexican-American War |
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What did Abraham Lincoln issue on September 22, 1862? |
the Emancipation Proclamation |
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Where did Robert E. Lee surrender during the Civil War? |
Appomattox Courthouse |
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Who assassinated Lincoln? |
John Wilkes Booth |
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Define Johnson's reconstruction plan. |
was lenient toward the South post-civil war; there was a basic "sorry for that one" policy with no real punishment |
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Define the Radical Republican's reconstruction plan. |
thought that Southerners ought to be punished and wanted to keep the ruling class out of power |
