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Chapter 9 Hstory test
chapter 9, 10 and 11 review flash cards
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History
8th Grade
02/22/2011

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Term
Judiciary; supreme
Definition

1) The Federal __________ Act of 1789 sets up the ____________ court and completes the Judicial branch of the US goverment.

Term
Cabinet; Domestic; Foreign
Definition

2) Washington sets up a _____________ because of the many _________ and __________ problems that the US was facing.

Term
debt;  Confederation
Definition

3) The US was heavily in ______ and had to overcome the problems caused by the Articles of ___________.

Term
Debts; Tariffs; Bank
Definition

4) Hamilton's Financial plan has 3 parts  to it. (A) Pay off all the war ______.  (B) Create ________ and taxes to raise money. (C) Create a national __________.

Term
Debts; Capital
Definition

 5) The South had already paid off their war _______. In a trade off, the South will agree ot help the North pay off war det in exchange for moving the nation's __________.

Term
Northwest; Britain; Spain
Definition

 6) Washington was facing difficulties in the _________ territories and at New Orleans. __________had refused to leave the Ohio Valley and were arming Native Americans through trade, and  _________ at times  was threatening to blocking the Mississippi River.

Term
Greenville, Timbers
Definition

 7) The United States gains lands in Ohio and Indiana by the Treaty of _________. The United States fought the Indian forces the Battle of Fallen ________ to help force the Native Americans into the treaty.

Term
Whiskey Rebellion; Strong
Definition

 8) The _________  _________ was a reaction to an unpopular tax on whiskey and Washington will have to send 13,000 troops to put down the revolt. It proves that the new Constitution is ____________.

Term
French Revolution;  Neutrality Proclamation
Definition

 9) Washington refuses to help the French during the  _________  _________ , for George thinks that  the US is too weak to fight. Washington issues the  ________  __________ to let the world know his desire to stay out of war.

Term
Spain; Britain; Treaties
Definition

 10) _________ and __________ actions against the United States  nearly caused America to go to war, but Washington tries to make _______________with the two countries to maintain peace.

Term
Terms; Farewell Address; Political; Neutral
Definition

 Washington decides to run only two ________, and offers advice to America in Washington's  _________  _______. He tells Americans not to fight over politics and form  _________ parties. Washington also tells America to stay ___________ and not make alliances with foreign countries.

Term
1800; Burr; Jefferson; Representatives
Definition

 1) The _________ Election had many personal remarks  made against each cnadidate-even though the two men were vice President (Jefferson) and President  (John Adams). The election results show that Aaron _________ and Thomas _________ are tied at 73 electoral votes each, and  the House of __________ will have to determine (after 36 times voting) who will become the President

Term
Jefferson
Definition

 2) __________ is one of the most talented Presidents.

Term
Peace
Definition

3) Jefferson made the attempt to try to restore political

____________.

Term
Marbury; Supreme; Judicial; Supreme; Unconstitutional
Definition

 4) __________v. Madison gives the _________ Court its most important power of __________ review.  Judicial Review allows the __________Court to declare that a law passed by congress and signed by the President as ________________.

Term
Jefferson; France; Mississippi; Louisiana Purchase
Definition

5) ___________ wants to buy New Orleans from __________ so that America could control the ____________ River, but France  decides to sell all of its holding in what is known as the _________  __________.

Term

Jamestown; Declaration of Ind.; Constitution;

 Louisiana Purchase

Definition

 1607- _______________

1776- ____________  __ _______________

1787- __________________

1803-  __________  __________

 

Term
Maps;  Americans;  Animal
Definition

 7) Lewis and Clark had 3 goals:

 Make accurate _________,

 make good relations with Native __________,

and record plant and _________ life.

Term
Sacagawea;  Clark;  Mountains
Definition

8) ___________ helped Lewis and ____________ successfully past the Rocky ____________.

 

Term
Maps; Fur
Definition

 The effects of explorers (Lewis and Clark and Pike):

1) better ___________ to guide Americans west

2) Creates an interest in the _______ trade with all the new and abundant animals

Term
Great;  desert
Definition

 Pike mistakenly thinks that the ___________Plains was a ___________.

Term
Embargo; Economy
Definition

 11) Jefferson tries to keep America out of war by creating the ____________ Act. The result of these well-meaning acts: America's  _________ suffers due to the lack of trade with other countries.

Term
Impressment; American
Definition

 12) An ___________ is when the British Navy forces ___________ merchants to join the British Navy or die.  Nearly 6,000 Americans fall victim to British impresessments. Many Americans want America to go to war because of the evil crime.

Term
Tecumseh; Americans
Definition

 13) ______________ united the Shawnee and other tribes to fight against the ____________ coming onto Native American Lands. He is similar to Little Turtle in that regard, but his Native American force is extremely powerful.

Term
War Hawks; Clay; Clay;  Spain
Definition

 14) _____  _______ were led by Henry  _________.

This group wanted war due to impressments and the British arming Native Americans in the west. Canada becoming part of the US was another goal of this group. Henry ________ also had designs of trying to kick __________ out of Florida.

Term
American; blockade; Revolution
Definition

 15) Britain hurts the __________ economy during the war by making a naval __________to prevent American ships from getting supplies. Americans are beginning to think that they need to start making goods and building factories-kicking off the Industrial _____________.

Term

William (Henry) Harrison;

Thames (pronounced Tims)

Definition

 16) _________ Henry __________ becomes a war hero for the Battle of Tippecanoe and the Battle of ________-a battle that will claim the life of Tecumseh

Term
Francis Scott Key
Definition

 17) __________ wrote the Star Spangled Banner

Term
Fort McHenry
Definition

 18) The Star Spangle Banner comes from as he was watching  the battle at ______ _________. Later, his poem will be put to music.

Term
War of 1812; Jackson;  Harrison
Definition

 19) The ______ of ________ is not an incredibly important war, but some interesting things happen as a result of the war: _________ and _________ become war heroes--something that  they will both use to help become President of the United States.

Term
New Orleans;  After;  Ghent
Definition

 The Battle of  ____ _______ actually happens ________the Treaty of ________ is signed. Jackson becomes a hero of a battle that should never have happened.

Term
elect
Definition

 21) The election of 1800 was important because we changed the way we _________ the president.

Term
amendment
Definition

 22) When we changed the way we elect the president, we had to pass an ____________.

Term
12th Amendment
Definition

 23) Which amendment changed the way we elect our president by making candidates run for presidency OR Vice Presidency?

Term
Zebulon Pike;  Spy
Definition

 24) ____________ explored the lower part of the Louisiana Purchase looking for the sources of the Red River and the Arkansas River. When Spaniards caught him, they thought he was a ______ because of all his detailed records.

Term
Alexander Hamilton;  Duel
Definition

 25) __________ was killed in a _______ after he helped keep Aaron Burr from becoming president and later from becoming governor of New York.

Term
White House
Definition

 26) During the war of 1812, the Capitol Building and the Presidential Mansion were burned. The Presidential Mansion was renamed the _______  _________.

Term
self-determination; freedom, religion
Definition

27) What 3 universal themes are written into the Star Spangle Banner?

Term
Industrial Revolution
Definition

 1) Started in Britain mid -1700's / factory machines replaced hand tools and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming.

Term
Factory System
Definition

 2) Brought many workers and machines together under one roof.

Term
New Enland
Definition

 3) America began to build its factories in this part of the country

Term
farming
Definition

 4) Before people began to go to work in the factories they had been in what profession.

Term
Samuel Slater
Definition

 5) Built his first mill in Rhode Island in 1790,   memorized  the plans for his mill from English mills before coming to America under a fake name.

Term
Francis Cabot Lowell;  farm girls
Definition

 6) ___________ built his factories in Massachusetts, built a town with his last name, primarily employed  ___________ who stayed in company owned boarding houses

Term
Eli Whitney;  interchangeable parts
Definition

 7) ______ _________ introduced the idea of __________ _______which made repairs faster and easier, introduced by assembling 10 guns in 10 minutes

Term
Robert Fulton
Definition

 8) 1807- _________ _________ launched his successful steamboat, Clermont, on the Hudson River, could move against the current or wind

Term
Henry Miller Shreve
Definition

 9) 1816 _______ ________ ________ designed a more powerful steam engine and sailed his ship on the Mississippi River.

Term
telegraph
Definition

10) Samuel F. B. Morse developed  the ____________ ,  1837 , developed Morse Code  which allowed people to communicate over long distances.

Term
steel plow; John Deere; mechnical reaper; Cyrus McCormick; Mechanical thresher; Meikle
Definition

 11) The Industrial Revolution also brought about changed in agrigulture such as

 a) _____________ invented by ___________, 

 b) ____________ invented by _____________, and

 c)_____________ invented  by ___________.

Term
 cuts;   separates
Definition

 12) A reaper ________ stalks of grain, and a __________ seperates grain from the stalk

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