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Mercantilism |
*The policy that the British followed toward the colonies *Mother country *Raw materials *New markets |
Mother countries for ex England and America |
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Salutary neglect |
*The British pretty much left the Americans alone in their day to day lives as long as raw materials kept being shipped to England and as long as Americans bought only British made products. |
*self government |
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Mayflower compact |
*An agreement made by the first Puritan settlers in Massachusetts |
*A government where people could elect their own representatives |
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House of burgesses |
* In Virginia this was the first elected legislature in the American colonies it was the first step towards representative government |
*All men are created equal *life *liberty *Pursuit of happiness *Comes from John Locke and the European Enlightenment |
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Natural rights/unalienable rights |
*Every human being has natural rights rights that they are born with and which are unalienable meaning they can't be taken away |
People owe loyalty |
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Social contract |
*Another enlightenment idea contained in the declaration it says that people owe loyalty only to a government that acts in their best interests |
Government gets power from people |
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Consent of the governed |
The government gets its power from the people ; they must give their consent (permission) to be governed |
*Declaration of independence |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Thomas Jefferson was assigned the job of writing a document that described the reasons for American independence |
*Natural rights *Unalienable |
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John Locke |
Came up with the idea of natural rights that everyone is born with that can't be taken away |
* After America revolution *weak government |
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Articles of confederation |
United States decided to set up a weak government because they feared a government that was too strong |
*Strong government *Document they wrote is called the constitution *written by Framers |
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Constitutional convention |
The meeting where American leaders decided to write a new document that would build a stronger government |
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Limited government |
The idea that the government should not have too much power |
*Executive *legislative *Judicial |
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Separation of powers |
There are three branches |
Equal power |
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Checks and balances |
Each branch has the power the limit the power of the others |
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Great Compromise |
The small and big states reached a compromise |
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Bicameral legislature |
A two house congress with a House of Representatives and a senate |
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Three fifths compromise |
At the constitutional convention there was a debate about representation in congress |
Anti federalists demanded that a bill of rights be added to the constitution to protect people against government abuse |
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Federalists & anti-federalists |
*Federalists-wanted a strong central government *Anti-Federalist-wanted a weaker government |
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Veto |
Each side got what they wanted the constitution did create a stronger federal government and a bill of rights was added to the constitution |
Us should be considerate on its pun problems |
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Amendmemt |
Bill of rights |
*This increased the power of the Supreme Court and the federal government |
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Bill of rights |
Protect people from government abuse |
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Isolationism |
The u.s should stay out of the affairs of Europe |
*Was important in westward expansion |
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Judicial review |
The idea that the Supreme Court has the right to declare laws unconstitutional |
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Unconstitutional |
Supreme Court has the right to declare laws unconstitutional |
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Marbury v. Madison |
The idea of the judicial review was created by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Marbury v. Madison case |
*As a result of the Mexican American war which the us won |
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Manifest destiny |
Idea was that God had given the us the right to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean even if it meant taking the territory of other people |
*Signed into law by Abraham Lincoln |
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Louisiana purchase |
Thomas Jefferson bought a huge territory from France |
*Increased tensions over the issue of slavery |
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Erie Canal |
Connected the Hudson River with Luke Erie |
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Andrew Jackson |
Policy of Indian removal |
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Indian removal act |
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. |
*In effect they said that slavery would always be legal in the us |
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Texas Annexation Me |
Texas broke away from Mexico and was eventually annexed (added on to) the us |
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Mexican cession |
Mexico was forced to give up over 1/3 of its territory |
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Homestead act |
Encouraged westward migration |
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Sectionalism |
Divisions between North and South |
These amendments said and how they attempted to protect the rights of African Americans in the south |
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Abolition |
Disputes between the north and south over slavery increased |
* literacy tests * Grandfather clause *Poll tax |
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Missouri compromise/compromise of 1850/Kansas-Nebraska act |
The two sides tried to resolve the issue through a number of compromises laws |
*Separate but equal *Facilities were legal |
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Fugitive slave law |
Provide for the return of slaves who escaped from state into another state or territory |
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Dred Scott case |
The Supreme Court said that the slaves were not citizens and therefore had no rights and that the property rights of slave owners could not be violated |
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Seceded |
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president soon after the south seceded because they feared that he would try to get rid of slavery |
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Emancipation |
Lincoln refused to allow the south to secede he sent military troops to the south in order to force them to remain part of the us |
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Reconstruction |
Made amendments to protect the rights of African Americans In the south |
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Share cropping |
Slaves had no rights and that the property rights of slave owners could not be violated in effect they said that slavery would always be legal in the us this caused a major push towards the civil war bc it caused greater division between the north and south |
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Civil war Amendmemts |
After the civil war ended three important Amendments were added to the constitution the 13th 14th and 15th |
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Jim Crow laws |
To prevent blacks from voting |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
In 1894 the Supreme Court upheld (supported) southern segregation laws in the plessy v. Ferguson case |
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