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Treaty of Paris
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Ended the rev. war. British had to remove troops from west, grant us fishing rights off of newfoundland, and defined very vague borders. Left us with a mess, huge war debts with no taxes to pay them, and foriegn pressures from below
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Shay's rebellion
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Daniel shay leads a militia of local farmsmen against courthouses of western mass. because they were having all of their farms foreclosed upon. the gov't had to call on the mass. militia to stop it, really embarrassing, led to support for federal gov't
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Articles of Confederation
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suck; no power to tax, no central gov't, unicameral legislature, one vote per state, no executive or judicial branch, no regulation of trade, no army, and it takes unanimous consent to alter; embodied the ideals of the revolution
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constitutional convention
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we need fix things, thomas jeff and john adams not there, james madison and andy jackson run shit, George W is prez. then they ditch the articles (illegal) and come up with all sorts of compromises; connecticut, checks and balances, bicameral, 3/5 compromise; federalists are jsut better organized and end up getting it ratified, state property qualifications helped, anti-federalists didnt have a baack up plan or g.w.
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John Jay
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Alex Ham
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directly related to creation of party system, his reports, the whiskey rebellion, and the french; report on credit we needed to assume all state debts, dinner table compromise; report on national bank, we need one; report on manufacturers, we must diversify and start making things, washington says no; All of his reports had conclusions that favored the northern elites and created a more powerful nat'l gov't;
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James Madison
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Federalist Papers
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Jay Treaty
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postponed war between britain and american, eliminated british western forts and "stopped" the seizing of ships. france was pissed
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Quasi War
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fought mostly at sea, few naval engauagements however substantial losses to us merchant ships, the french were basically pirates running amok until britain helped
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Alien and Sedition Act
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1798 there were 4 measures pass by congress to restricted rights of non-citizens during quasi war led to party war
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Revolution of 1800
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election that pitted jeffersonian republicans and federalists, results were • Reduced federal spending
• Reduced size and pomp of federal government • Reduced size of the US army • Kept Hamilton’s bank • Kept Hamilton’s tariffs • Kept Jay Treaty • The Louisiana Purchase |
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Aaron Burr
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shot alexander hamilton
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Luisiana Purchase
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redick, doubled size of us for 15 mil, opened up the west, were gonna be farmers forever, probably unconstitutional but who cares
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Lewis and Clark
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explored shit
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Sally hemmings
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Tommy jeff's slave lover
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Embargo
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Jefferson enacts one on britain to try and stop all the bullshit, poor call, we get the shaft
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War of 1812
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causes-violation of maritime rights, never really pulled out soldiers, searches seizures and impressment
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Battle of New Orleans
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Awesome; Andy Jackson and his kentucky gents whoopin ass. Britains lose 2000 with 3 major generals dead, americans lose 71; not so much the kentucky backwoods story, more like the british standing behind a wall and getting drilled by cannons
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Tecumseh
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leads pan-american indian alliance to try and fight back, he does it during the war of 1812 and its pretty successful at distracting america, he dies and they lose the battle but the point is made
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Francis Scott Key
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wrote nat'l anthem after witnessing the seige on fort mchenry
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Fort McHenry
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was the british real plan, after they sacked d.c. they moved on the fort and seiged it for 25 hr without being able to capture it...bitches
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Lake Champlain
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battle that allowed us some leverage in not giving up any territory, and also halted british invasion
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Modernization
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process that transforms local subsistence farming into a nationally integrated market
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Eli Whitney
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invented the cotton gin and also is kind of credited with machinery advancements
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Cotton Gin
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used to help remove seeds from cotton, done by pulling them through mesh. revolutionary, moved american to the cotton king of the world
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Internal Improvements
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Erie Canal
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Linked atl ocean to great lakes, helped nyc become such a huge city, promoted interstate travel, huge engineering feat
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Robert Fulton
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invented steamboat and later the submarine
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Clermont
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the name which fultons steamboat assumed after being called the North River Steamboat
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McCulloch Vs Maryland
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Maryland had tried to tax the second nat'l bank by saying all notes not from maryland, federal gov't said no, we are better than you
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Gibbeons v. Ogden
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interstate commerse ogden wanted to cruise areound new york, gibbons said no, us congress said yes
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Bank War
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Jackson against the monster fderal bank, order all money be withdrawn, had to fire two ppl to do this, leads to financial crisis of 1837
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WhigSecond Party System
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rose up against andrew jackson and his egalitarian policies, tried to keep martin van buren out of office and failed
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Trail of Tears
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treaty of new echota 1835 was a trick, very few ppl actually signed it; congress ratifies it with one vote in 1836, cherokee bring a huge petition, meaningless; 15000 are put into stockades and the rest sent to oklahoma by foot, 2000 died; believe native americans could not adapt to white ways
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James Fenimore Cooper
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American novel; born 1879, wrote precaution and the spy, introduced american character that was an idian like tracker; we assumed the indian identity as our own, we thought it was cool
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Thomas Cole
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landscape painting; started hudson river school, realizes it is the land that makes us american; the course of empire series, if we keep getting land, we will be forever young
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Hudson River School
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focused on landscape painting; struggle between nature and man, how society changes with natures vastness and beauty
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Southwestern Humor
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people falling down, getting in trouble, shit like that
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Davy Crockett
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fictional david crockett, was the first comic superhero, stories slowly develop into surreal rediculous events; an american hero that is wiley, adaptive, self-taught, and practical
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the Crockett Almanacs
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held information about farming and nature and stuff and also davy crockett comics and soutwestern humor
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the Alamo
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southern texas fort, first to come under attack from mexico, william travis, jim bowie, davy crockett, all die
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Manifest Destiny
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Mexican war
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Temperance
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fight against alcohol, pretty successful; spearheaded by evangelicals, middle class business men, reform women; american temperance society had 1.5 mil members within 12 yrs of forming
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women's rights
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the wanted to own property and to vote, most whites agree with property, they can hide money in women; they did not get to vote until 1920
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Shakers
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founded by ann lee; decided they should not get married and cannot have sex, no little shakers, only converts, relieved men of guilt and women of babies
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Mormons
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founded by joseph smit, city of nouvoo; did not have giant orgies, multiple wives with restrictions; 1st wife has to approve, need church's approval, and only about 15 % of ppl did this, not for sexual pleasure because they dont really go together
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oneidans
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founded by john noyes, they thought jesus already came back; was both a feminist and misbynist, wanted women to be free of household chores, they should work hard, and encourage pants
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elizabeth cady stanton
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seneca falls convention, helped write womens declaration of indepence
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Susuan b anthony
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profound womens rights activist, on 1 dollar coin, major supporter of suffrage
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Seneca falls convention
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1848, about 100 ppl both men and women where they wrote declaration of independence
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Dorothea Dix
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american acitivist supporting the mentally ill; wanted reforms on treatment, usually they just went to prison
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asylum movemtent
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led to better treatment for mentally ill, spearheaded by Dix
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Nauvoo
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mormon city, kind of a hybrid between capitalism and socialism, moved to utah after increasing pressures
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male continence
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not having an orgasm, but having sex; ideas of the oniedans, then eventually they had to have reproducers
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millennialism
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the idea that we are already in the 1000 yr period of christ; the oneidans believed we were already in it
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lyceum movement
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ralph emerson and thoreau hopped on this train and published their stuff
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Walt Whitman
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the american poet
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Henry David Thoreau
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bff's with emerson, lived what he preached, wrote civil disobediance and walden
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Emily Dickinson
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female poet, darker side of things, wrote over 1800 poems, 7 of which were published during her lifetime
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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father of renaissance, wrote nature, the american scholar, and self-reliance, called upon the american poet, lectured in lyceum movemnt
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Herman Melville
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sailor who wrote moby-dick, kind of a downer too, typee
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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wrote scarlet letter, total debbie downer, sad story
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transcendentalism
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protest against normal society, non-conformity, screw harvards unitarianism and intellectualism
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