Shared Flashcard Set

Details

History 101 vocab
Vocab for Final
35
History
Undergraduate 1
06/08/2008

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Oswego Council
Definition
Council of Indians who agreed to fight the Colonist/Americans
Term
Kings Commision (of Inquiry)
Definition
British trying to get U.S. to repay losses that loyalist incurred during the war
Term
Thomas Peters
Definition
Escaped slave that makes his own declaration of independence; found Sierra Leone
Term
Patriots of 76'
Definition

Patriots who believed that the faith of all human liberty/freedom was in our hands

Term
Daughters of Liberty
Definition
Patriotic women who helped America be less dependent on British Textiles by suppling clothes, blankets, etc. to troops during the American Revolution War
Term
John Adams
Definition

2nd president of the United States and a leader in the American Revolution

Term
Northwest Ordinance of 1785
Definition
an ordinance that divided highly disputed land into a series of townships and sections; plots of land were sold very cheaply to the settlers
Term
Stay Laws
Definition
laws that suspended the collection of debts by their citizens
Term
Shay Rebellion
Definition

An uprising in Mass. in 1786, lead by Daniel Shay and poor farmers who opposed high taxes, and taxes on land

Term
Bicameral Congress
Definition
The United States Congress, consisting of two houses; the Senate and the House of Reps.
Term
New Jersey Plan
Definition
a plan providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state; a plan that would help the smaller states
Term
Virginia Plan
Definition
A plan drafted by James Madison, which provided for a two-house legislature with proportional representation, and each house chosen by the legislature
Term
Great Compromise
Definition

A mixture of both the New Jersey Plan and the Virgina Plan; the legislature will be bicameral and based on population. Each state will have an equal number of Senators

Term
Fugitive Slave Clause
Definition
a law that required escaped slaves to be sent back to their original owners
Term
Anti-Federalist
Definition
people who were against the ratification of the constitution
Term
Bill of Rights
Definition
a formal statement of the rights of the American people, found in the American Constitution in Amendments 1-10
Term
Whiskey Rebellion
Definition
A rebellion of farmers in western Penslyvania, who were against the tax on whiskey
Term
Impressment
Definition
the kidnapping of American sailors to work for the British ships
Term
Citizen Genet
Definition
French Diplomat, who went to America to get support for the French and eventually gets kicked out of the country
Term
Pinckney Treaty
Definition

a treaty with Spain giving the United States, navigation privaleges on the Mississippi River

Term
XYZ Affair
Definition
a diplomatic incident that almost led to war against the U.S. and France; America sent three American agents to negotiate whith France, which failed
Term
Alien and Sedition Acts
Definition

the president had the power to deport any resident alien who was threat to the U.S.. Anyone who aids in unlawful assemble or communicates against the governments beliefs would be arrested

Term
Kentucky Resolution
Definition
a document drafted by Thomas Jefferson which states that the government is violating the bill of rights
Term
Benjamin Banneker
Definition
freed African American mathematician and astronomer who laid out the streets and buildings of Washington D.C.
Term
L'Efant
Definition
Designer of the U.S. capitol
Term
Lousiana Purchase
Definition

When the U.S. bought the port of New Orleans and much of the Mississippi Valley from the French; double d the size of the United States

Term
Lewis and Clark
Definition
two men appointed by Thomas Jefferson to explore the new land bought from the Louisiana Purchase
Term
Accomodation
Definition
The Cherokee Indians modeled their governmment after the New World government in hope to be left alone by the New World
Term
Tecumseh
Definition
the "head" Indian leader in the early 1800's to fight off American settlers
Term
Anthony Wayne
Definition
American Revolutionary War general who was sent to the Ohio/Indiana territories in an effort to stop Indian tribes
Term
War Hawks
Definition
young patriots who wanted to go to war with England before the War of 1812
Term
War of 1812
Definition
The war against the United States and Great Britain from 1812-1815 in which the United States won
Term
Treaty of Ghent
Definition
the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812
Term
Monroe Doctrine
Definition
a policy that stated that European powers weren't allowed to colonize or interfere with the United States
Term
Missouri Compromise
Definition

a compromise in which Missouri was a slave state, Maine a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36*

Supporting users have an ad free experience!