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YOUNG REPUBLIC,INDUSTRIALIZATION,

ANDREW JACKSON

CONFLICT,CIVIL WAR,

RECONSTRUCTION

John Rolfe saved Jamestown by developing a new method for curing

this plant

What is tobacco?

Author of the Declaration of Independence

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

Developed the use of interchangeable parts when manufacturing guns

Who is Eli Whitney?

President who got elected by promising toBring Texas into the Union and purchase

California

Who is PresidentJames Polk?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging

The freedom of speech. . .

What is the First Amendment?

As leader of the Jacobins,he came to dominate the Committee

of Public Safety and led theReign of Terror

Who is Maximillian Robespierre?

This group, the French middle class(made up of merchants, bankers, and industrialists)

was opposed to the monarch.

What is the bourgeoise?

The basic charter of liberties including “liberty,Property, security and resistance to oppression”

What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?

This group wrote a new constitution whichSet up a limited monarch (the king shared

power with a Legislative Assembly)

What is the National Assembly?

One legal system created from over 300 Different systems in France

What is Code Napoleon?

King George III drew this line from north to south along the Appalachian Mts. And declared that colonists could not

Settle any land west of the lineWithout the British government’s

Permission.

What is the ProclamationOf 1763?

The first direct tax Britain ever placed on the colonists (until this tax, only

trade was taxed)

What is the Stamp Act?

Also known as Whigs, these groupsbrutally enforced the boycott of

British goods

What are Patriots?

A lively and persuasive pamphlet Attacking King George

What is Common Sense?

Document that begins “We hold these truthsTo be self-evident, that all men

Are created equal…”

What is the DeclarationOf Independence?

A serious disturbance in Massachusetts thatResulted when the state government chose to raise

Taxes and not issue paper money; provedThe Articles of Confederation were too

weak

What is Shay’s Rebellion?

Congress had no power to tax, enforce treaties, regulate commerce

raise an army

What were weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

Agreement that each state gets two votesin the Senate and representation in

the House of Representativesis based upon each state’s population.

What is the Great Compromise?(Also called The

Connecticut Compromise)

A means for each branch of governmentto monitor and limit the

power of the other two branches.

What areChecks and Balances?

Sharing of power between the states andThe federal government

What is federalism?

In 1820 an agreement was reached To maintain the balance of slave and free

States…and prohibit slavery north of 36 30’In the Louisiana Purchase

What is the Missouri Compromise?

Responsible for killing the Second National Bank, Indian Removal, reduces the tariff toavoid South Carolina’s nullification

Who is Andrew Jackson?

In Massachusetts he built mills that spun cottoninto thread and also produced woven cloth; built

towns around his mills which mostly emplyedwomen.

Who is Francis Lowell?

The idea that the nation was meant

To spread to the Pacific Ocean

What is Manifest Destiny?

Divided

at the 49th Parallel in 1846

What was Oregon’s boundary?

California was admitted as free,Popular sovereignty allowed in Utah and New

Mexico territories, Texas border dispute reolved,Slave trade abolished in Washington DC,

Enforced the Fugitive Slave Act

What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

This novel helped ignite the Civil War

What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Organized in 1854 and consisted ofNorthern Whigs, Free-Soilers and

opposed further expansion of slavery

What was the Republican Party?

Blockade of Southern ports,cutting the South in half at the Mississippi River,exhausting the South by conducting “Total War”

What was the AnacondaPlan?

After this city surrendered, the South was cut into half

The city that surrendered so the South was cut into half

What was Vicksburg?

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The Third Estate moved here towrite a new constitution

What is the Tennis Court?

Another name for Loyalists who were 20% of the white

Population in the 13 colonies

What are Tories?

Powers belongingto the states

which the federal governmentcannot do such as grant

marriage licenses and set up public schools

What are reserved powers?

Thomas Jefferson’s political party whichFavored states’ rights

What is the Democratic-Republican Party?

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun led these members of Congress

in calling for war against Englandbecause it put an embargo on U.S. goods

and refused to leave western forts

Who were the War Hawks?

The French nobility who owned 30% of The land and held leading positionsIn the government, military, courts,

And church.

What is the Second Estate?

After Robespierre’s death, the National Convention set up this new government which lasted from 1795-1799; plagued by corruption, political enemies, and

economic struggles

What isThe Directory?

Napoleon’s failed economic plan toStop British goods from reaching

The European continent to be Sold there

What is the Continental System?

England’s control of the seas,the Continental System,a rise in nationalism, and

the invasion of Russia

What factors led to the downfall of Napoleon?

What was thefinal place of exile for Napoleon?

What is St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean?

In 1783,recognized the United States of America as a new

nation with the Mississippi Riveras its western border

(the British kept Canada)

What wasThe Treaty of Paris?

British General who surrendered at Yorktown

Who wasGeneral Cornwallis?

Radical patriot who organizedThe Sons of Liberty

Who is Sam Adams?

Fighting in the America between France and England that ended in

1763; France lost all claims to mainlandNorth America

What is the French andIndian War?

In 1775 while Boston was under Britishoccupation the colonists sent this

request to the king asking to end thehostilities.

What is the OliveBranch Petition?

Although not mentioned in the Constitution,This give the Supreme Court and lower

Courts the power to interpret laws And the Constitution

What is judicial review?

“All powers not delegated to the U.S. by theConstitution, nor prohibited by it to the

States, are reserved to the StatesRespectively, or to the people”

What is the 10th Amendment?

85 essays written to persuadeAmericans to ratify the U.S.

Constitution

What are The Federalist Papers?

Rule by the people (ex. letting thepeople ratify the Constitution or

decide whether their states wouldbe slave or free)

What isPopular Sovereignty?

Declaration that the American continentsAre no longer open to European Colonization; urged Europe to

Respect sovereignty of new Latin American Nations.

What is theThe Monroe Doctrine?

Jackson’s practice of appointing peopleTo government jobs based on party

loyalty and support.

What is the spoils system?

When advocating the immediateemancipation of slaves, he said, “I am in earnest,

I will not equivocate, I will not excuse;I will not retreat a single inch--AND I WILL

BE HEARD!”

Who isWilliam Lloyd Garrison?

By 1836, stretched from Cumberland, MD toVandalia, IL and was the only U.S.-funded

transportation project of its time

What is The National Road?

Jackson signed this document permitting theNative Americans to be relocated to

The uninhabited lands west of theMississippi River.

What is the IndianRemoval Act?

California,Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico,

Parts of Colorado and Wyoming(The Rio Grande as the southern

Border of Texas)

What are theterritories Mexico

gave the U.S.?

Major Robert Andersonrefused to surrender to

President Jefferson Davis

What happenedat Fort Sumter?

The wearing down of one side by the otherin war through exhaustion of soldiers

and resources played a criticalrole in the Civil War

What is attrition?

Declared that the right to vote “shall not be denied…on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

What is the 15thAmendment?

After capturing Vicksburg, Granthad a victory in this city that helped

capture the southern railroad andcleared the way for an invasion

Of Georgia

What is Chattanooga?

Because they feared that the Civil Rights Act of 1866

would be overturned by the Supreme Court, the Radical Republicans took this action

Why was the14th Amendment

Proposed?