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Jamestown
This colony was mostly single men in search for gold and treasure. They were not prepared and nearly died. John Smith and John Ralph saved the colony by bringing tobacco to plant and turned the colony into a cash crop colony. The Headright System granted land to colonists, usually 50 acres. -
Puritans
They believed their city was to be an example for other cities in the colonies; City on a Hill. They were very religiously intolerant. They believed in hard work and worked constantly. Plymouth established the Mayflower Compact which was the first constitution tyoe document in the New World. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Led a war against the natives because they wanted land. They also looted and burned Jamestown. It manifested the increasing hostility between the poor and wealthy in the Chesapeake region. -
Deism
deisma religious philosophy and movement that derives the existence and nature of God from reason and personal experience.typically reject supernatural events (prophecy, miracles) and tend to assert that God does not intervene with the affairs of human life and the natural laws of the universe. -
Great Awakening
Great AwakeningReligious revival in response to the age of reason. Many converted, including natives and slaves. It began in about the 1730s. It opened new schools and churches and untied the colonies in something. More religious toleration. -
End of Salutary Neglect
Salutary NeglectAfter the war, after basically ignoring the colonies, Britain suddenly started caring about the colonies and basically acting like an overbearing mother. -
Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763Said that the colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. They basically disregarded this rule. It angered the colonists more than they already were. iT was done to prevent the more fighting witht the natives. -
Stamp ACt and others
Stamp Act-tax on paper products 1765
Sugar Act- tax on sugar 1764
Declaratory Act- parliament could pass any act they wanted 1766
Townshend Act- glass, leads, paint, and tea
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Mercantilism
the economic theory that all parts of a nation's or empire's economy should be coordinated for the good of the whole state/empire; hence, that colonial economic welfare should be subordinated to that of the imperial power. (This system was embraced by the British and opposed by many colonists who believed they were being used for the mother country's sole benefit). -
Declaration of Independence
Contained a list of greivences of the king of England against the colonies. It declared that the colonies would be their own sovereign nations. It was written after King George rejecting the Olive Branch petition. -
Revolutionary War
Americans fought against Britain for their freedom. The French aided the Americans after a significant battle. They lended their navy and this was seen as a turning point in the war. -
Articles of Confederation
First constitution. Weak central gov. could not tax or raise army, had to have many states ratify a law to pass it. After Shay's rebellion the government couldn't do anything because they weren't allowed to raise an army. It did establish a way to admit states. -
Treaty pf Paris
Gave the US all land east of the Mississippi. Britain kept occupying the Ohio River Valley. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
Land Ordinance of 1785System for surveying land in the west; located in present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, & Wisconsin; set aside land for public -
Founding Father's and Political Parties
Founding Fathers did not anticipate or desire the existence of political parties, viewing them as "factions" dangerous to the public interest. -
Constitution
ConstitutionAllowed the government to pass laws, raise money, raise an army. Federalists supported it and Democrats opposed it. Separation of powers, checks and balances. The first ten amendments were added in order to get the rest of the states to ratify it. -
Bill of Rights
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. They were made in order to get the rest of the states to ratify the Constitution. -
Eli Whitney
Cotton gin made it way easier to remove seeds from cotton which made it very profitable to grow cotton. This made slavery more popular. Interchangable parts made industry faster and allowed for mass production. -
Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality
neutralityWashington said not to supply war materials to any side fighting during the French Revolution. He decided the US would not get involved. -
Washington's Farewell Address
FarewellHe advised the nation to avoide political parties and involvement in foreign affairs. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
actsincreased the residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years, authorized the president to imprison or deport aliens considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" and restricted speech critical of the government.Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions went against them. -
Election of 1800
This election was seen as a peaceful revolution because it was the first peaceful transfer of power. Adams was a Federalist and Jefferson, the new president was a Democratic Rzepublica. -
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v MadisonThis Supreme Court case established Judicial Review. Marbury was one of Adams's midnight appointments and Madison wouldn't give him his position and the court ruled that it could not force him to give him the position. -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana PurchaseJefferson made the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon for $15M. Napoleon wanted to invade the US but couldn't because of the Haitian Revolution so he sold the land to Jefferson instead. Jefferson wanted it for farming. -
Cult of Domesticity
This value system emphasized new ideas of femininity, the woman's role within the home and the dynamics of work and family. -
Lowell System
Factories in New England began employing young women. They offered them a room, they were provided with educational and cultural opportunities. This declined as more people immigrated to the States. -
War of 1812
Britain was impressing American merchants and making them fight aaginst France. They were also arming natives with weapons. -
Hartford Convention
Meeting of Federalists. They were against the war of 1812. They were merchants who were hurt by the Embargo Act because they couldn't trade with foreign nations. This marked the death of the Federalist party. It was overshadowed by Jackson's victory at New Orleans -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state so they admitted Maine as a free state so the balance between slave and free would remain equal. It said that any state admitted above the 30 6' 30" line would be a free state. It was devised by Henry Clay. -
Monroe Doctrine
MDWritten by JQA, said that the western continents werent to be colonized by any Europena powers. The US didn't want Europe threathening the country. They had Britain to back them up. Roosevelt Corollary- Said that Latin American countres had to fulfill its internation duties and not bring any threatening powers to the hemisphere. -
Tariff of Abominations
Tariff of 1828A protective tariff was placed on imports in order to protect American industry. This hurt the south, which still relied on imports. Calhoun suggested nullification. If they didn't want a lay, they would vote to have it nullified. Jackson responded by threatening to send troops and hang Calhoun. -
Andrew Jackson
Jackosn wanted to move the natives. Passed the Indian Removal Act. Allowed the common man to vote. There were less requiremnets to vote. He got rid of the US Bank. He took out federal funds from the Federal Bank and put them in pet banks. He did not renew the charter for the Federal Bank. -
Irish Immigration
They came because of the potato famine. They worked in factories for low wages and lived in slums. Nativists were against immigration because they were worried that immigrants would take all the jobs. -
Transcendentalism
transcendentalismPeople, men and women equally, have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that "transcends" or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel. This knowledge comes through intuition and imagination not through logic or the senses. People can trust themselves to be their own authority on what is right. -
Popular Sovereignty
Popular SovereigntyThe idea that the people should decide on a topic by voting. This was applied in the Kansas-Nebraska Act when they voted to decide whether slavery would be allowed or not. -
Mexico
election of 1844They urged americans to move to texas only americans didn't follow the rules and brought slaves and declared texas its own independent state.In the election of 1844 Polk won and promised to get oregon and texas. -
Manifest Destiny
Belief that it was America's god-given right to expand to the west coast. The Whigs were against it. The Democrats supported it, they saw it as a chance to exapnd slavery. The Whigs were worried for theri jobs -
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Mexican CessionEnded the Mexican American War. It granted the US the Mexican Cession and settled the border of Texas at the Rio Grande. The US paid $15M for the Mexican Cession. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Seneca Falls ConventionWomen, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony gathered and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, modelled after the Declaration of Independence. They wrote about how they should be seen as equals to men in society. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850California entered as a free state, the slave trade was outlawed in Washington D.C. and a fugitive slave law was added where people were required to return runaway slaves to owners if they escaped. -
Kansas-Nebraksa Act
Kansas Nebraska ActThe matter of whether slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska would be settled through popular sovereignty. Extermists from both sides moved to Kansas and this resulted in Bleeding Kansas. The North was upset becaause they felt it violated the MO Compromise. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott tried to appeal to the SC for his freedom but it was decided he couldn't because he wasn't a citizen, he was property. The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional because it restricted property rights, which was guaranteed in the Constitution. The North was outraged. -
John Brown
He was an extremist who believed it was his mission to free the slaves. He lead a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, which was the South's armory with the hopes that slaves would join one. No one did. He was hanged and was seen as a martyr in the North while the South saw him as a terrorist. -
William Lloyd Garrison
He was an abolitionist and journalist. He had a newspaper called the Liberator. -
Lincoln/Republican Policy on Slavery in 1860
Lincoln did not want the South to secede so instead of outlawing slavery he instead wanted to stop the spread of slavery to the west and hopefully it would end by itself. South Carolina seceded after the election because they fear Lincoln would get rid of slavery -
Civil War
Civil WarIt was an attempt to get the South to rejoin the Union. The North had better transportation, more people, more weapons. The South has Robert E. Lee and lots of commitment to defend their way of life. The South were fighting a defensive war. The North had the Anaconda Plan. Britain would've sided with the Confederacy because they depended on their cotton. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It freed the slaves in the Southern states. It shifted the purpose of the Civil War from keeping the Union together to freeing the slaves. They gained more support. It only applied to states that had seceded, not the border states because he didn't want them to secede from the Union as well. They kept slavery.
