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39 Cards in this Set
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Old Delude Satan Law
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-Puritan law to educate children against the devil
-Allowed for schools to mix religion with education |
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Cahokia Mounds
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-City of the Mississippi Valley near present day St. Louis
-Big Native American Civilization around 1,000 ce who built large mounds as homes and buildings |
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Francis Drake
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-In 1577 he left England on a journey to circumnavigate the globe
-He traveled west towards America and encountered many hardships with bad weather, battles with natives, and mutiny on board one of his ships -He discovered that there is ocean underneath South America |
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Walter Raleigh
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-Came with 100 colonists to develop the Roanoke civilization on Roanoke Island
-Unfortunately it was unsuccessful -He also helped to convince Queen Elizabeth I to support the establishment of colonies |
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Historiography
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-the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources, the selection of particulars from the authentic materials, and the synthesis of particulars into a narrative that will stand the test of critical methods
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Middle Passage
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-The voyage the slaves had to endure across the Atlantic Ocean
-Many perished and experienced horrendous treatment under the deck of the ship on their way to be sold in America |
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Mulatto
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-a person of mixed white and black ancestry
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Miscegenation
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-a mixture of races; especially : marriage, cohabitation, or sexual intercourse between a white person and a member of another race
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Enlightenment
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-A time of great religious awakening and reach for more freedoms in everyday life |
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Republicanism
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-A govt without a king which celebrated active participation in public life by economically independent citizens
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Federalism
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-The relationship between the national govt and the states
-Sometimes called the division of powers |
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James Madison
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-A diminutive, colorless Virginian
-Thought about the nature of political freedom -He was a nation builder who thought that the American govt needed to have a stronger national power |
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Alexander Hamilton
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-He was a nation builder who believed America needed to be more enegized to become a stronger political power
-He worked with Madison and wanted a stronger national govt |
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13th Amendment
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-Was approved in 1865 and abolished slavery throughout the entire Union
-Introduced the word "slavery" into the Constitution for the first time |
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Marbury v. Madison
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-The first landmark decision of the Marshall Court
-Came in 1803 Marshall complained that the section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconcstitutional and Madison must leave his position as a commissions official -The court did not have the power to make Madison leave |
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
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-An educated slave on a sugar plantation
-He created a slave army and issued a slave rebellion against British forces so they could seize the island and reestablish French authority |
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John L. O'Sullivan
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-A New York journalist who created the phrase "manifest destiny" meaning that Americans had the duty to take over all of N. America
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"Sambo" personality
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-Sambo was the stereotype personality of African slaves
-They were the comical and smart ones that saved the whites |
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Northwest Ordinance
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-1787- Called for the eventual establishment of 3-5 states north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi
-It enacted the principle of the "empire of liberty" rather than "ruling over" the lands of N. America |
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Filibustering
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-When you invade another country because you want to take it over
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John Brown
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-He was a white man who tried to organize a slave revolt and get attention for the slaves
-He demanded "Liberty no longer be deferred" -He was eventually beheaded for the abolitionist cause |
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Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner
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-Slaves who issued slave revolts
-Nat Turner was a slave preacher -They all took place in the out of plantation south where the most police were there |
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Charles Sumner
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-Matched with Brooks
-Brooks beat Sumner because of a 2 day speech he gave about Kansas |
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John C. Calhoun
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-Vice President to Jackson
-Wrote the S.C. Exposition and Protest |
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14th Amendment
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-Gave citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.
-Empowered the govt to protect the rights of all Americans |
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15th Amendment
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-Prohibited the federal and state govts from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race
-Ratified in 1870 |
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Hiram Revels
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-He was born in North Carolina and served as a chaplain in the wartime Union army
-Became the first Black senator in American history |
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Appomattox
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-General Lee took his forces West and were then encircled by Grant's forces
-He realized that further resistance was useless so he surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9th (Virginia) |
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Dred Scott
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-Dred Scott was a slave who went with his master to Illinois where slavery was illegal
-After he returned back to Missouri, he sued his master for his freedom because he was free in Illinois -The ruling declared that only white people can be citizens in the U.S. |
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1986)
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-U.S. Supreme Court decision supporting the legality of Jim Crow laws that permitted or required "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites
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Harriet Tubman
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-Black starter of the underground railroad
-Went back and forth on the underground railroad freeing slaves |
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Albert Cashier
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-A woman, dressed as a man who fought for the Illinois Union
-Created an uproar,and the govt wanted to take her name off the monument -But the men who fought with her rallied against that decision |
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Lucy Stone
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-Supported black right and women's rights
-She married another women's rights worker and abolitionist man named Henry Blackwell |
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Julia Ward Howe
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-President of New England Suffrage Board
-Abolitionist and Suffragist -Wrote the song Battle Hymn of the Republic |
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Sojourner Truth
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-Very devout Black woman
-Prayed that whites would free their slaves -Spokesperson for women's rights and abolitionism -Born a slave in New York |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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-Opened up the Kansas and Nebraska territories to popular sovereignty regarding slavery
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Antietam
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-In Maryland
-Site of the battle between McClellan and the army of the Potomac rebelling against Lee's advance. -In one day of fighting, 4,300 men were killed and 18,000 were wounded -More people died in that battle than any other day in American history |
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George Fitzhugh
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-A Virginia lawyer and author of numerous books and articles on social issues
-He repudiated not only Jefferson ideals but the notion of America's special mission in the world -Talked about how universal liberty was the exception and an experiment that carried on for a little while only in the northern united states -Said the slaves in the south are the happiest and slaves and their masters have a special bond |
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Fugitive Slave Law
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-Allowed special federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without benefit of a jury or trial or even testimony by the accused individual
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