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53 Cards in this Set
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Importance of the fundamental orders of Connecticut?
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The first written govt doc. In the US
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Spanish Florida and reasons for settlement in the new world?
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Looking for natural resources and a place to ship goods back home
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Where were the first settlements in America and why?
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Jamestown(money)
Plymouth(religion) |
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Middle passage?
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The voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America
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Homestead strike and violence?
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Government sides with owners, workers fight because of harsh labor conditions
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General Sherman and total war?
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Used harsh war treaties to break southerners will to fight
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Significance of battle of Antietam
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Bloodiest battle
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Robert E. Lee
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Southern general. Best military general. Helped with reconstruction.
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Gettysburg address overall message?
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Talked about slavery and the civil war
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13th amendment
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Abolished slavery
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14th amendment
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All citizens including blacks have equal rights that were born in the USA
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Kansas-Nebraska
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Gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
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Why was the fugitive slave law?
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Provide southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who escaped into free states
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Difference between presidential and congressional reconstruction?
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Presediental- the attempt from 1808 to 1877 to resolve the issues of the civil war
Congressional- congresses plan to punish the rebelling southern states |
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Effect of the cotton gin?
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Allowed slaves to pick the seeds out of cotton faster
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Social Darwinism
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Holding that a system of unrestricted competition will ensure the survival of the fittest
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Jacksonian democracy
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A movement for democracy in America
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Impressment and the war of 1812
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Impressment- forced "recruitment" of sailors into the British navy
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Who was John Marshall
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As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of the US constitutional
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Growth of cities from 1879-1920s....why?
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Industrial growth, immigration, new jobs, people left farms
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Jefferson's attitude toward the national bank
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Opposed bank, favored farming/agriculture
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XYZ affair
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Diplomatic scandal that almost caused another war between USA and France
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Chinese immigrants and wages
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Chinese worked for less wages and it angered workers already in the west
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Great compromise
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California free state, fugitive slave law passed, compromise of 1850
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Enlightenments effect of the constitution
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Power spread to the people
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Improving conditions in American cities cause
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Police, light bulbs, electricity, jobs
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Common sense
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By Thomas Paine called for separation of the colonies from britian
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Why did the first and second continental congress meet?
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1-agree to meet again
2-declared independence |
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Homestead act
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Provide acres to any citizen in the west who was head of the household and would have it for 5 years
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Effect of the Pullman strike
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Gov. Sides with businesses workers had to return to work
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Purpose of the suspension of habeas corpus
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Weaken the south, imprison southern traitors, put people in jail without process
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Effect of Sherman's burning of atlanta
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Destroy southerners willing to fight, destroy industrial capacity of the south, destroy communications and railroads
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Purpose of the Declaration of Independence
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Break ties with the UK, give a philosophical justification for independence
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Appomattox courthouse significance
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Ended the civil war
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Spoils system
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The practice of winning candidates rewarding their supporters with govt jobs
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Provisions of the compromise of 1850
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California a free state, fugitive slave law
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Purpose and hope of John browns raid
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To get weapons and supplies to slaves to lead a rebellion and take out slavery through the south
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Horizontal integration
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The merging of companies that makes similar products
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Monroe doctrine
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Opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
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How did radical republicans want to treat freedman
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Wanted to protect rights, give property to slaves, supported congressional reconstruction, more in favor o freedom rights
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Northwest ordinance 1787 purpose
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Divided up land west of the Appalachian mtns., banned slavery, supported schools, 1st cont. congress
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Land ordinance of 1785
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Law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian mtns.
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Effect of the war of 1812 and Americans attitudes about themselves?
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Americans first thought of themselves as a unites country, sense of pride
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Ideas of Alexander Hamilton in a relation to a national bank
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Wanted a strong central govt supported federalism, wanted to assume war debts
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Judicial reveiw
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The supreme courts power to declare an act of congress unconstitutional
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Ideas of John Locke
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Govt gets power from the people. Life, liberty, property
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Sherman anti-trust law(teddy r.)
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1st time the govt tried to limit power of business and monopolies, trust 1890
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Purpose of the 3/5 compromise
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Slaves counted as 60% south would not have ratified constitution without it
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Danger of sectionalism to the country
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NE,NW,&SE became economically distinct, differences lean to civil war
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Disadvantages of labor vs big business
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The govt sided with big business
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Proclamation of 1763 provisions
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Kept colonists east of the moutains: F&I war , kept peace with Indians
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Effect of the slaughter of wounded knee
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Indians forced into reservations
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Enlightenment in America
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Montesquieu-seperation of powers
Locke- govt gets power by people, bothe inspired decleration |
