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Protestant Reformation
-God-many wanted to spread Christianity
-Glory
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American Revolution
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
-Created a plan for dividing land into territories and admitting new states.
-60,000 people to become a state -
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George Washington
-He was the first president of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
-He helped frame the Constitution of the United States. -
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John Adams
-He was a remarkable political philospher and served as a second president of the United States,after serving as the first Vice PPresident under President George Washington.
-He became president during the war between the French and British -
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Thomas Jefferson
-He was a spokesman for the democracy, he was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States.
-Jefferson lost the election in 1796 by three votes. -
Louisiana Purchase
-Owned by the French.Napeloen needed money to finance his war with Britain and he no longer desired an American Empire, so he sold the territory for $15 million.
-Doubled the size of the United States. -
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James Madison
-America's fourth president.He made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing the federalists papers, along with Alexander Hamiliton and John Jay.
-He was referred to as the Father of the Constitution. -
Underground Railroad
-used by Harriet Tubman to help 300 slaves to freedom.
-She had 40,000 bounty over her head. -
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James Monroe
-He was the Fifth president of the United States.
-He was the last president from the founding fathers. -
Missouri Compromise
-In 1820, Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state, upsetting the balance balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states.
-Henry Clay proposed a compromise. -
Monroe Doctrine
-In 1823, James Madison established two foreign policy ideals in his speech that were non-intervention and non-colonization.
-It stated that European nations could not colonize or interfere with states in North and South America. -
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John Quincy Adams
-He was the son of John and Abigail Adams and served as the sixth president of the United States.
-He was a member of multiple political parties over the years, he was a diplomat, Senator, and member of the House of Representatives. -
Tariff of 1828
-It was meant to help the Northern industry, it taxed imported goods. It hurt the South, because they weren’t able to produce the same goods as the Northern States.
- Also known as the Tariff of Abominations. -
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Andrew Jackson
-Seventh president of the United States, who was seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man.
-He was born near the unmarked borders of North and South Carolina. -
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Martin Van Buren
-He was the eighth president of the United States, after serving as the eighth Vice President and tenth secretary of state, both under Andrew Jackson.
-Three months after he was elected the financial panic of 1837 punctured their belief in Buren. -
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William Henry Harrison
-He was an american military officer and politician, also was the ninth president of the United States.
-He was the oldest to be elected at the time. On the 32nd day, he was the first to die in office, serving the shortest holing of office in US Presidential History. -
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John Tyler
-He was the tenth president of the United States, when William Henry Harrison died in April 1841.
-He was the first Vice President to succeed to the presidency after the death of his predecessor. -
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James K. Polk
-The last strong President until the Civil War.
-Known as the dark horse and was the 11th President of the United States. -
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Mexican War
-It was between the US and Mexico.
-Mexico was defeated in the end and loss of approximately half of its national territory to the north. -
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Mexican- American War
Mexican government invited Americans to settle and land was granted to empresarios. Americans offers to purchase Texas were refused. -
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Zachary Taylor
-A general and national hero in the United States Army from the time of the Mexican-American War and War of 1812.
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Forty-Niners
-The promise of riches brought thousands westward.
-Dicovered in California in 1849, Colorado in 1858, and Nevada in 1859.
-Gold
-The Comstock Lode(NV) one single silver deposit worth $340 million. -
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Millard Fillmore
-A member of the Whig Party and the 13th president of the United States.
-The last president to not be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. -
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Franklin Pierce
-14th president of the United States
-By pursuing the recommendations of southern advisors, Pierce is an New Englander, which hoped to ease the divisions that led eventually into the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Senator Stephen A. Douglas (3rd) pushed for the organization of Kansas and Nebraska territories.
-Both were above 36 30'N and destined to become free states. He proposed the idea of popular sovereignity, allowing settlers to vote on the status of the territories. -
Sumner Brooks Incident
-Abolitionist Sumner gave a speech about the evils of slavery and said pro-slavery sympathizers were from the "vomit of civilization."
-Southerner Preston Brooks nearly beat Sumner to death on the senate floor the next day. Southerners mailed hundreds of new canes inscribed with "Hit him again!" while Sumner was out of the Senate for 3.5 years. -
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James Buchanan
-15th president of the United States, he served immediately after the American Civil War.
-He was the only president to be elected from Pennsylvania and remain a lifelong bachelor. -
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Abraham Lincoln
-16th president of the United States, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
-He was captain in the Black Hawk War and spent 8 years in the Illinois legislature. -
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Civil War
-President Lincoln called for volunteers to fight against the rebels.
-Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union.
-VA, AR, TN, and NC seceded as a result.
-MO, KY, MD, DE were border states that stayed in the Union. -
Homestead Act
-promised 160 acres of land for cultivation.
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Antietam Battle
-South invaded MD hoping a major victory would bring support from Great Britain and France.
-In Day 1, 23,000 men were killed or wounded. Single bloodiest day in American history. -
Gettysburg Address
-Lincoln delivered a 2 minute speech at the dedication of the battlefields cemetery. It was a cemetery for Union soliders killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. -
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Andrew Johnson
-17th President of the United States
-He is an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states rights views. -
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Ulysses S. Grant
-He led the Union armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
-He was the 18th president of the United States, he was working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery. -
Mercantilism
-theory that a nation becomes powerful through trade.
-England used colonies to provide products they could not. -
Thomas Nast
-He was a famous cartoonist for Harper's Weekly.
-He drew many cartoons that dealt with Reconstruction and other issues in the late 1800's. -
Puritans
-wanted to purify and reform the Angelican Church.
-Harsh punishment for drukness, theft, swearing, and idleness.
-Ministers led congregations, not bishops. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
-Dred Scott a slave sued for his freedom, but the Supreme Court ruled they he remain a slave, because he was property, he was a slave not a citizen, and Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in territories.
-It ended in 1857. -
Alexander Hamilton
-The Federalists were led by Alexander Hamilton, which supported Britain.
-The Federalists supported the constitution. Also believed the wealthy and educated should govern, not ordinary people. -
Transcendentalism
-It was a movement in literature during the 130’s, 40’s, and 50’s.
-The movement emphasised rejection of traditional authority and individual self-reliance. -
Whiskey Rebellion
-Small farmers revolted in Pennsylvania after whiskey was taxed. These farmers used whiskey to barter.
-President Washington sent militia and crushed the rebellion without a single death. Set a precedent that the government would use force to maintain peace. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
-In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia.
-The revolt killed 55 whites and eventually led to his execution. -
Dorothea Dix
-She observed the treatment of the mentally ill and persuaded many states to pass laws and set up public hospitals.
-Also she spurred prison reform. -
Andrew Johnson
-He continued Lincoln’s plan and he would readmit states that would declare secession illegal, swear allegiance, promise not to pay Confederate debts, and ratify the 14th amendment.
-He was the 17th President of the US, serving from 1865 to 1869. -
English Common Law
-establishment of a Supreme Court that makes decisions laws, and can use previous decisions(precedent) to make future decisions.
-It allows laws to be uniform and fair. -
Magna Carta
-A document signed by King John, recognizing rights nobles had in 1215.
-It limited the power of the king and the document is used to establish a series of checks and balances in the government. -
First Great Awakening
-encouraged individualism, an individual relationship with God
(transcendentalism).
-It lead to revivalism and religious tolerance. -
Committees of Correspondence
-first attempt by the colonies to create a government.
-It set up the first Continental Congress and was met before the start of the American Revolution. -
Two Treatises of Government
-two-part book, justifying the American Revolution.
-Outlines the role of government borrowed his ideas of Social Contract and Natural Law. -
Jacksonian Democrats
-Andrew Jackson and his supporters were members.
-The democracy was a political movement during the Second Party System. -
Hamiltonian Policy
-Alexander Hamilton becomes the first Secretary of the Treasury of the US.
-His job details included consolidating the money used by all the different states. -
Free Soil Party
-abolitionists who had left the other two major parties during the discussion of containment v. abolition.
-It was from 1848 to 1852. -
Suffrage
-right to vote in political elections.
-It was what women were fighting for in the Womens rights movement. -
John Dickinson
-He was a Founding Father of the US.
-Also was a solicitor and politician from Philadelphia. -
Whigs
-created to rival Jackson’s new democratic party.
-This is after the Federalist party died after the War of 1812. -
William T. Sherman
He said "War is Hell". He led 60,000 troops through Georgia, capturing and burning Atlanta, he marched to the sea, destroying everything in a 60 mile wide path. -
Carpetbaggers
-They are northerners that went to the South during Reconstruction to make money. Many were businessmen who purchased or leased plantations and became wealthy landowners, hiring freedmen to do the labor.
