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| Americans grouped themselves according to: |
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| Race, religion, sex, class, ethnicity, and degree of personal freedom. |
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| Geographical factors such as ___ divided Americans. |
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| Climate, access to markets. |
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| In 1790, 4 million people lived in America. What percentage lived in New England? |
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| How was New England atypical? |
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| Shut itself off from outsiders, limited population diversity, no cash crops, family and friends worked on farms instead of servants. |
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| What factors contributed to New England's limited population diversity? |
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| Geography and mostly uniform religious beliefs. |
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| Who was the first woman to argue publicly in favor of women's equal education? |
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| Which state was the first to take steps toward equal education for women? |
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| Which states were in the Mid-Atlantic region? |
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| New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. |
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| Which region was the most ethnically and religiously diverse? |
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| They stressed personal piety over theological doctrine. |
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| Which region was the nation's first 'breadbasket'? |
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| Who made up the dependent class? |
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| Women, slaves, children, servants, people who didn't own property. |
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| Who made up "body politic"? |
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| Free land-owning black men, land-owning white men, land-owning women in New York. |
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| In the phrase "WASP property owning males", what does the acronym WASP stand for? |
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| White Anglo Saxon Protestants. |
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| Articles of Confederation's strengths: |
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| Northwest Ordinance, not tyrannical, post offices, won the war, negotiated treaties. |
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| Articles of Confederation's weaknesses: |
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| 9/13 states to pass laws, no standing army, no central bank, no coercive power, 13/13 states to amend, no executive or judicial branches, no leader, only one vote per state. |
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| 3 main reasons the Articles were changed: |
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| Shay's Rebellion, Depression, Jay-Gardoqui Treaty |
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| What was hard currency called? |
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| A group of people who don't need government approval to organize. Ex.) PETA, KKK, Boyscouts, Baptists |
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| What were the two ways to deal with factions? |
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| Control its effects by letting them thrive until no one group had a chance to gain power, remove its causes. |
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| What were the two ways to control factions' causes? |
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| Destroy their liberty or give everyone the same opinion. |
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| What mode of transportation will eventually become the #1 way to get in to the West? |
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| What was the highest man-made point west of the Mississippi until the 1800s? |
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| Who gets the fame for the American System? |
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| What is the American System? |
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1. Federally funded internal improvements (railroads, canals, roads, etc.)
2. Tariffs
3. Central Bank |
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| Makes incoming goods more expensive. |
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| What happens in the case of Marbury v. Madison? |
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| Court gets judicial review. |
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| What was the Missouri Compromise? |
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| No slave states above the 3630 line. |
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