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Wacky History Midterm
American History, baby
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01/17/2005

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In the treaty of Tordesillas
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the Portuguese persuaded Isabella and Ferdinand to change the boundary line and thus shut Spain out of Asia and the Philippines and the wealth those areas possessed.
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King James persecuted the separatists at which point
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Sir Edwin Sandys came up with the idea of having them transferred to the Americas
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Second signed was the Civil Body Politik which
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was like a constitution that enforced and enacted laws.
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Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay when he stated that
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no one was truely able to know who was saved and who was damned. Only the person and God knew that
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Antinomianism
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If you follow God’s laws, the state’s are unimportant
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the headright system
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encouraging people to live on their land by granting land based on how many people came with you or how many you paid for
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Quitrent
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the goods that the people on the land had to pay to the original landowner
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In 1649 the Act of Toleration was passed which
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prevented form of violence or molestation against any member of society based on religious beliefs
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Patroonship
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Tracts of land with 18 miles of Hudson River Frontage granted to any person who settled 50 families
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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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Created by Anthony Ashley Cooper and written by John Locke, it contained 120 detailed articles
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Originally Georgia was to be
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a military buffer state protecting South Carolina from the Spanish in Florida
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Colonel James Oglethorpe was chosen to develop Georgia. He wanted to form a society in which
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jailed debtors could go and start a new life once their obligations were paid
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The Navigation Act states that
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-all colonial trade be carried by vessels built and owned by English or colonial merchants
-Three out of four sailors of trade vessels had to be English or colonials.
- The Navigation Acts also required that any goods that were intended to be sold need to be first taken to an English Port call an “Entrepot” where the goods would be distributed, monitored and shipped to America.
- Enumerated Articles - Colonial exports that could only be shipped to English Ports in order to ensure that part of the profit on the export went to England. In addition England collected a very large tax on all enumerated articles
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Bacon's Rebellion
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A bunch of white people got pissed off at a bunch of Indians and kicked their asses.
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Little Wars
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The French conquered small amounts of British land.
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Molasses Act
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Tax on sugar. Not enforced.
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King George's War
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Colonists took a bunch of French territory. Then the British gave it all back.
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Proclamation of 1763
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London drew a boundary on the Appalachian divide that prevented any of the English from doing trade or venturing west of this line. Anyone who had settled in that area previously was relocated either east or north
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Sugar Act
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The molasses act, but enforced.
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Tea Act
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East India Company are the only ones allowed to sell tea.
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Intolerable Acts
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1) Boston was closed to trade until the tea was paid for
2) Governor General Thomas Gage was permitted to take the trials of any soldier or British official accused of killing civilians out of the colony
3) Government of Massachusetts changed - Power went from elected bodies to the king’s appointed officials
4) New Quartering Act - Authorized the housing of redcoats in occupied private homes
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Suffolk Resolves
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Resolutions that stated that the Intolerable Acts were invalid, and called for a boycott of trade with Britain if the laws were not repealed
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Treaty of Paris
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the independence of the United States was recognized. The Mississippi River was the western Boundary. Americans were given fishing rights off British Newfoundland nad Nova Scotia. The United States promised not to mistreat loyalists and to compensate them for siezed property
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Hamilton’s Excise Tax
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Tax on whiskey. Led to the whiskey rebellion.
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Moses Austin
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Responsible for moving Americans into Mexico
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Wilmot Proviso
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No slavery in Mexican land
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Defeatism
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The belief that the war was not worth the expense in blood and money
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Webster-Ashburton Line
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The line that splits Canada (British) from the U.S
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Treaty of Guadaloupe-Hidalgo
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Mexico seeds Rio Grandé to California and New Mexico in 1848
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New England Emigrant Aid Company
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Paid for anti-slavery people to move to Kansas (cause of Bleeding Kansas)
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The Cambridge Agreement of 1629
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter.
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The Tidewater
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Was a series of peninsulas washed by the water of the ocean, so the ocean brought ships in and out, which made it easy to smuggle. It was the first part of the tobacco colonies to be settled
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Pine Tree Shilling
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The currency of Massachusetts
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Queen Anne's War
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The war over who would reign in Spain. South Carolina was involved because they competed with France in the fur trade, and thus didn't want them to control Spain.
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William Pitt
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Prime Minister who pulled French out of occupation of America.
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George Grenville
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Responsible for Sugar and Stamp acts.
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Declaratory Act
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British: We can tax you if/when we want.
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Townshend Duties
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Taxes on certain British goods coming into the colonies. When Brits realized this didn't help them, it was revoked for everything but tea (just to show they still had power).
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Battle of Saratoga
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Turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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Hamilton's Economic Plan
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1. 5% tariff on imports.
2. Assumption of state debts.
3. BUS
4. Protective tariffs.
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Jay's Treaty
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British evacuate their forts in the U.S., and Americans pay down their pre-war debts to the British.
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Alien Act
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Extended time necessary to become a citizen from 5 to 14 years.
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Sedition Act
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Provided stiff fines and prison sentences for person who published statements that held the US government in “contempt or disrepute”.
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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Condemned the Alien and Sedition acts. Claimed that nullification was constitutional.
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Orders of Council
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Forbid neutrals to trade in Europe without first stopping at a British port.
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The Continental System
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Any ships that obeyed the Orders of Council would be seized by the French.
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Embargo Act
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Forbade American ships from leaving ports, in an effort to hurt the British economy. It hurt the American more, though, and was soon repealed.
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War of 1812
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War hawks attacking Canada.
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Treaty of Ghent
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Restored British-American relations to those before war.
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Election of 1828
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First campaign of mudslinging.
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Tariff of Abominations
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Ridiculously high protective tariff.
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Tariff of 1832
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Highest protective tariff in history. Nullified by South Carolina.
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Force Bill
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Forced South Carolina to accept the Tariff of 1832.
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Election of 1840
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Harrison/Tyler Ticket
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Seneca Falls Manifesto
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Ripoff of Dec. of Ind. but for the women's rights movement.
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American Colonization Society
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For moving blacks to West Africa.
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Nat Turner
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A black slave who orginized a slave rebellion.
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Election of 1844
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Polk vs. Clay. Decided by the Texas issue. Polk is for annexation, so he wins.
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Mexican-American War
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We kicked some serious Mexican ass.
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Compromise of 1850
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California would be a free state, the territories would not be orginized as anything, no slave trade in DC, and a stronger fugitive slave act.
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Crittenden Compromise
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Extend the Missouri Compromise line.
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North's name for blockade
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Anaconda plan.
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Homestead Act
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People got free land for settling out west.
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Leconte Constitution
Definition
Constitution drafted by pro-slavery people in Kansas
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