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Seperation Of Powers--- Checks and Balances
Seperation of Powers is an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. This ensures not one branch is too powerful.
Checks and Balances nfluences an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups. -
The Articals of Confederation--Bicameral Legislature
The original constitution of the USA which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. This was a way that the US could tell Britain they did not want to be involved anymore.
The Bicameral Legislature is where the legislators are divided into two seperate assemblies chambers or houses to make sure one single branch never became to powerful. -
Popular Sovereignty---Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty is an idea used in a democracy. It means that the people are the ultimate source of the authority of their government.
Limited Government is a principle of classical liberalism, free market libertarianism, and some tendencies of liberalism and conservatism in the United States. A constitutionally limited government is a system of government that is bound to certain principles of action by a state constitution. -
Alexander Hamilton---John Jay--- Andrew Jackson
He was a secratary of the treasury. He set up the national finance and put national economy on a firm footing. He also created national debt.
John Jay was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States.
Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border. -
The Cabinet---Tariff
The cabinet is a group of the President's top advisors. It is made up of the heads of the 15 main executive departments. Each of the department heads has the title Secretary, like Secretary of Defense or Secretary of Education, except for the head of the Justice Department who is called the Attorney General.
Tariff is an import on taxes produced in Europe being sent to America -
Loose Contructuion---Strict Constituion
Loose Construction these are the people who believed looser interperatation of the constituiton.
Strict Constitution are were the people wanted all laws to be followed exactly the was they were written. -
Shays Rebellion---The federalist
Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
The Federalist A supporter of the Legislature and executive branches of the federal government. -
Northwest Ordinance 1787--- Great Compromise
The government of the territory of the United States made an act of congress of the confederation passed for the territory of the Ohio River valley. It was important land to have in the United States.
The Great Compromise was an agreement that the large and small reached during the Constitutuional Convention that defined the legislature structure. Each state had to go follow reules made by the Government. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress, and signed into law by Federalist President John Adams in 1798. -
Whiskey Rebellion
also known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
Interchangeable parts--Cotton gin
Interchangeable Parts are parts that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type.
Cotton Gin s a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber. Such machines have been around for centuries. Eli Whitney's machine of 1794, however, was the first to clean short-staple cotton, and a single device could produce up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton in a day. -
Nullification--2nd Great Awakening--Utopian Community
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government.
The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.
Untopian Community New Harmony was the site of two attempts to establish Utopian communities. -
Marbury vs. Madison---Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
Judicial review is the doctrine under which legislative and executive actions are subject to review by the judiciary. A court with judicial review power may invalidate laws and decisions that are incompatible with a higher authority, such as the terms of a written constitution. -
Louisiana Purchase--Impressment
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
Impressment Impressment refers to the act in which men are captured and forced into naval service. While many nations at various times in history have employed a policy of impressment, the term is usually used in reference to Great Britain's Royal Navy. -
War Hawks---Treaty of Ghent--- Hartford Convention
War hawks are the opposite of doves. The terms are derived by analogy with the birds of the same name: hawks are predators that attack and eat other animals, whereas doves mostly eat seeds and fruit and are historically a symbol of peace.
Treaty of Ghent signed on December 24, 1814 in the city of Ghent, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Jacksonian Democracy--- Tariff of Abominations
Jacksonian democracy is the political movement during the Second Party System toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters.
Tariff of Abominations was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Monroe Doctrine--Missouri Compromise
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Manifest Destiny---Lane star republic
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.
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The Lone Star Republic. Chamber of Commerce, Huntsville, TX. Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas. At the time Spain granted independence to Mexico in 1821 -
Erie Canal---American System
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that originally ran about 363 miles from Albany, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
American System is the policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by adoption of a high protective tariff and of developing internal improvements by the federal government -
Henry Clay----Indian removal Act
Henry Clay is a Whig political leader of the early nineteenth century known for his efforts to keep the United States one nation despite sharp controversy among Americans over slavery. Clay represented Kentucky, first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate.
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territories. -
Dorotheadix---Abolition movement
Dorthea Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.
The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal." -
Nat Turner-- William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner was an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths.
William Lloyd Garrison In 1830 he started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator. In 1832 he helped form the New England Antislavery Society. When the Civil War broke out, he continued to blast the Constitution as a pro-slavery document. -
Wilmont Proviso---Popular sovereignty
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War 1846-48. This stated no areas conquered from Spain can have slaves.
Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo--California Gold Rush
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic,
California Gold Rush is a period of time when golf was discovered and people rushed to California to search for gold. -
Seneca Falls Convention--- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War -
Kansas Nebraska Act---Dred Scott
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857. -
Gadsden Purchase--Morman Movement
Gadsden Purchase was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
The Mormons started their movement into the West in 1846 due to their persecutions in Missouri, Ohio, and Illinois, for their strong religious beliefs. -
Underground Railroad----Harriet Beacher Stowe
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. -
Harpers Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
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Conferate States of America
The Confederate States of America, commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was a confederation of secessionist American states existing from 1861 to 1865. -
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The Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan was a strategy created by Union General Winfield Scott in 1861, early on in the Civil War. It called for strangling the Southern Confederacy, much like an Anaconda. It was never officially adopted by the Union government.
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Fort Sumter
Fort sumter is where the first shots of the civil war happened. The Confederates attacked the north at the Fort. The only cassualties of the battles happened after the attack and the two only deaths happened as an accident. -
The battle of Fredricksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside. The Union Army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as he -
The Battle of Shiloh
The turning point of the war where it gave the North the conidence that they could beat the south. Union won -
The Battles of Bull Run
The Confederates won the first battle of Bull Run and boosted their hopes. This occured on July 21st. The second battle occured on August 28th and was won by -
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle was known as the bloodiest battle in Northern America and confederates considered it a win for them but lost many soldiers. -
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Reconstruction
Reconstruction generally refers to the period in United States history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union. -
The Battle of Chancellorsville
The Conferates won this battle and at this time of the war was the bloodiest battle in American History. Confederates wanted to cut off all suplies for tthe Union. This battle led to stronger and worse battles for both sides. -
The Battle of Vicksburg
On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton's army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. The Union won -
Battle of Gettysburg
This was the the only battles fought in the north. Union won battle and this was most of the largest death toles of the civil war. Lincoln gave the Gettysberg address -
The Battle of Petersburg
The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865, during the American Civil War. The Union tried to play the wait game and starve the conferacy by cutting off the food line. Union won the battle which led to winning the war. -
Battle of Atlanta
The confederates wanted to push the Union away from the railroads but the Union still won and kept them awayy from controlling of the railroads. This Battle led to Shermans March -
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Shermans march to the sea
The point of this was to scare the civilians out of Georgia. They didn't kill anybody but would burn their barns if they fought back. The Union took over without a real problem and resulted in the end of the Civil War 1 month after. -
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Appomattox Court House
Union beat the Confederates and they had to Surrender and started to signal the end of the war. 27,000 COnfederates surrendered. -
Black codes-- Freedmen's Bureau
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy . The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. -
Radical Republics---Ku Klux Klan
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
The KKK was founded to keep african americans away from gaining equality. They turned to violence. Known as the last Confederates. -
14th and 15th Amendments
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Sharecropping---Enforcement acts
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans'.
