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| "discovered" America in 1492 while looking for a trade route to India |
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| religious foundation of each colony |
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Maryland: Catholic
Pennsylvania: Quakers
Mass: Puritains (church and state together)
RI: Choose religion you wish to practice |
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| Puritan- believed in the "city on a hill" |
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| Boston as an example city. "A model of christian charity" |
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| 1631- Believed in religious freedom (church and state should be separate) banished for this idea to RI. |
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| The passage to which the slaves rode in crammed ships. From Africa to the Caribbean. |
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| Independently run states. Britain let them govern themselves. |
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| 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 |
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-Proclamation of 1763
-England is in debt
-taxes |
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| British soldiers killed 5 colonists. Situation was made worse by the painting. |
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| Underground resistance organization. Protested acts of British government. Performed the Boston Tea Party. |
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| Intolerable acts / Coercive Acts |
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| Response to the Boston Tea Part, soldiers lived in colonists homes. |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| America proposed independence from Britain. Listed unalienable rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. |
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| Where is was decided that congress would be broken up into two houses. |
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| not a political party, states rights, bill of rights |
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| armed uprising in attempt to take the arsenal. |
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| Farmers rebellion against the Hamilton's tax on whiskey. |
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| Jefferson's Accomplishments as President |
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-Louisiana Purchase
-Declaration of Independence
- ended alien and sedition acts
-smaller government
-cut government spending |
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| social movement urging reduced or prohibited use of alcohol to create their vision of a perfect society. |
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| Cutting off americas trade with France and Britain because of Britain's impressment of American sailors. |
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| Last battle of War of 1812 where jackson wins and becomes a war hero. |
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| Largest textile mills during the market revolution. |
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| Industrialization's effects |
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| People moved to cities, faster production, and destruction of artisans. |
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| Federalists opposed war of 1812. If we went to war they threatened to succeed from the union. End of federalists. |
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| 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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| regulation of slavery in western territories |
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| the way woman should act due to prejudice. Only have individuality in the home. |
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| From massachusetts, petitioned for public education. |
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| President of Mormon church. |
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| artisans=factory workers. Lost financial independence because you're working for others. |
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| Former slave who was a leading abolitionist and lecturer on emancipation. |
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| abolitionist. Newspaper editor and publisher (the liberator) |
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| Led an unsuccessful slave rebellion. Ended up killed 50 white people. |
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| (proposal not a law) banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from mexico. |
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| Henry Clay convinced people to vote for John Adams instead of Jackson. |
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| Whigs believed jackson was abusing federal power with the veto. |
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| Jackson vs. National Bank |
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| 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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| Signed by Jackson in 1830. Moved the Indians west of the mississippi off their homeland. |
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| 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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| Bring people back to church by making it personal/emotional experience. |
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| Perfect society (temperance, reformations) |
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-Annexation of Texas
-Manifest Destiny (Coast to coast)
-wanted california
-border diputes (rio grand) |
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| Thoreau/ Civil Disobedience |
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| Transcendentalist who wrote civil disobedience which told people to resist unjust state and laws. |
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-California =free state
-no slave trade in D.C
-Territories get popular sovereignty.
-enacts tough fugitive slave law |
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| people decide if they want their state to have slavery or not |
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| states that WERE in the UNION, but still HAD SLAVERY |
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| Written by the abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| Case where it was declared that blacks were not citizens. |
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knew the land better
better military leadership ( like Robert E. Lee.) |
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| (Harpers Ferry) Abolitionist who used violent actions to fight slavery. (Gave slaves guns) |
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| Lincoln and slavery (pre-war) |
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-did not want to abolish it
-did not like it
-did not want it to expand |
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| immediate cause of secession |
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| Speech by lincoln about civil war being a test for democracy. |
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| Helping the freed slaves in the south during reconstruction. |
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| 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 |
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| Reconstruction amendments to the constitution |
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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 |
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| avoid political parties and avoid foreign alliances. |
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| adams administration, attacked first amendment( could not say bad things about the president) |
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| immigration, not given citizen rights |
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| Massacre of indians. Final travel that ends the indian resistance. |
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| sperate facilities=racial segregation |
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| problems of industrial workers |
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-low wages
-long hours
-poor working conditions |
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blamed government because they used gold instead of silver for money
-interest rates |
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| Washington believed that blacks had to be accepted economically and DeBois believed it was socially . |
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| invisible hand- government should not be involved in the economy |
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| in business= survival of the fittest. |
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| protect individual liberties from the power of the federal government |
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| Respected general by North and South |
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