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10th Grade
12/18/2012

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Columbus
Definition
"discovered" America in 1492 while looking for a trade route to India
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religious foundation of each colony
Definition
Maryland: Catholic
Pennsylvania: Quakers
Mass: Puritains (church and state together)
RI: Choose religion you wish to practice
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John Winthrop
Definition
Puritan- believed in the "city on a hill"
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"city on a hill"
Definition
Boston as an example city. "A model of christian charity"
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Rodger Williams
Definition
1631- Believed in religious freedom (church and state should be separate) banished for this idea to RI.
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Middle Passage
Definition
The passage to which the slaves rode in crammed ships. From Africa to the Caribbean.
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Salutary Neglect
Definition
Independently run states. Britain let them govern themselves.
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Proclamation of 1763
Definition
Can't go west of App. Mtns. to separate the colonies from the Indians. Set up after the French and Indian War.
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effects of French and Indian War
Definition
-Proclamation of 1763
-England is in debt
-taxes
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Boston Massacre
Definition
British soldiers killed 5 colonists. Situation was made worse by the painting.
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Sons of liberty
Definition
Underground resistance organization. Protested acts of British government. Performed the Boston Tea Party.
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Intolerable acts / Coercive Acts
Definition
Response to the Boston Tea Part, soldiers lived in colonists homes.
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Declaration of Independence
Definition
America proposed independence from Britain. Listed unalienable rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Great Compromise
Definition
Where is was decided that congress would be broken up into two houses.
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Anti-federalists
Definition
not a political party, states rights, bill of rights
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Shay's Rebellion
Definition
armed uprising in attempt to take the arsenal.
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Whiskey Rebellion
Definition
Farmers rebellion against the Hamilton's tax on whiskey.
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Jefferson's Accomplishments as President
Definition
-Louisiana Purchase
-Declaration of Independence
- ended alien and sedition acts
-smaller government
-cut government spending
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temperance
Definition
social movement urging reduced or prohibited use of alcohol to create their vision of a perfect society.
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Jefferson's embargo
Definition
Cutting off americas trade with France and Britain because of Britain's impressment of American sailors.
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Battle of New Orleans
Definition
Last battle of War of 1812 where jackson wins and becomes a war hero.
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Lowell Mills
Definition
Largest textile mills during the market revolution.
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Industrialization's effects
Definition
People moved to cities, faster production, and destruction of artisans.
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Hartford convention
Definition
Federalists opposed war of 1812. If we went to war they threatened to succeed from the union. End of federalists.
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War of 1812
Definition
resulted in no territorial change, but a resolution of many issues remaining from the American War of Independence. After, England and America became allies, wiped out indian power in the west.
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Missouri Compromise
Definition
regulation of slavery in western territories
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cult of domesticity
Definition
the way woman should act due to prejudice. Only have individuality in the home.
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Horace Mann
Definition
From massachusetts, petitioned for public education.
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Joseph Smith
Definition
creator of the mormons
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Brigham Young
Definition
President of Mormon church.
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Wage slavery
Definition
artisans=factory workers. Lost financial independence because you're working for others.
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Frederick Douglass
Definition
Former slave who was a leading abolitionist and lecturer on emancipation.
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William Lloyd Garrison
Definition
abolitionist. Newspaper editor and publisher (the liberator)
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Nat Turner
Definition
Led an unsuccessful slave rebellion. Ended up killed 50 white people.
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Wilmot Proviso
Definition
(proposal not a law) banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from mexico.
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"corrupt bargain"
Definition
Henry Clay convinced people to vote for John Adams instead of Jackson.
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Whigs vs. Andrew Jackson
Definition
Whigs believed jackson was abusing federal power with the veto.
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Jackson vs. National Bank
Definition
Wanted to abolish the bank because he thought it gave to much power to the government and thought it favored the "non producers"
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Indian Removal Act
Definition
Signed by Jackson in 1830. Moved the Indians west of the mississippi off their homeland.
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Nullification Crisis
Definition
South Carolina protested the tariffs because they were unconstitutional, and they didn't have to follow the government. (Made jackson mad)
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1st Great Awakening
Definition
Bring people back to church by making it personal/emotional experience.
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2nd Great Awakening
Definition
Perfect society (temperance, reformations)
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Causes of Mexican War
Definition
-Annexation of Texas
-Manifest Destiny (Coast to coast)
-wanted california
-border diputes (rio grand)
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Thoreau/ Civil Disobedience
Definition
Transcendentalist who wrote civil disobedience which told people to resist unjust state and laws.
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Compromise of 1850
Definition
-California =free state
-no slave trade in D.C
-Territories get popular sovereignty.
-enacts tough fugitive slave law
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popular sovereignty
Definition
people decide if they want their state to have slavery or not
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border states
Definition
states that WERE in the UNION, but still HAD SLAVERY
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Definition
Written by the abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Dread Scott Case
Definition
Case where it was declared that blacks were not citizens.
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Confederate advantages
Definition
knew the land better
better military leadership ( like Robert E. Lee.)
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John Brown
Definition
(Harpers Ferry) Abolitionist who used violent actions to fight slavery. (Gave slaves guns)
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Lincoln and slavery (pre-war)
Definition
-did not want to abolish it
-did not like it
-did not want it to expand
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immediate cause of secession
Definition
the election of Lincoln
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Gettysburg address
Definition
Speech by lincoln about civil war being a test for democracy.
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Freedmen's Bureau
Definition
Helping the freed slaves in the south during reconstruction.
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sharecropping
Definition
landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (put farmers in debt during reconstruction )
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end of radical reconstruction
Definition
compromise of 1877
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Reconstruction amendments to the constitution
Definition
13- abolished slavery
14- everyone born in america is a citizen/ guaranteed equal protection of the law
15- ALL MEN given the right to vote.
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Washington's farewell address
Definition
avoid political parties and avoid foreign alliances.
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sedition acts
Definition
adams administration, attacked first amendment( could not say bad things about the president)
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alien acts
Definition
immigration, not given citizen rights
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Battle of wounded knee
Definition
Massacre of indians. Final travel that ends the indian resistance.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
sperate facilities=racial segregation
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problems of industrial workers
Definition
-low wages
-long hours
-poor working conditions
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problems of farmers
Definition
blamed government because they used gold instead of silver for money
-interest rates
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Washington vs. DeBois
Definition
Washington believed that blacks had to be accepted economically and DeBois believed it was socially .
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laissez-faire
Definition
invisible hand- government should not be involved in the economy
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Social Darwinism
Definition
in business= survival of the fittest.
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Bill of Rights
Definition
protect individual liberties from the power of the federal government
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
Respected general by North and South
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