History Mid-Term 2
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- The Great Awakening
- Religious Revival
- The Enlightenment
- Intellectual revolution that advocated reason
- George Washington in French and Indian War
- Sent to protect land claims
- Parts of the Declaration of Independence
- Preamble, List of Grievances, Theory of Government, Formal Declaration
- Townshend Duties
- Tax on paint, lead, glass, and tea
- Proclamation of 1763
- No one can settle past the Application Mountains
- Yorktown
- Last battle of the Revolutionary War
- Saratoga
- Turning point of the Rev. War
- Commander of Colonial Army
- George Washington
- Treaty of Paris
- Ended the revolution
- New Jersey Plan
- Favored small states, unicameral legislature, 1 vote per state
- Connecticut Plan
- Great Compromise; bicameral legislature with one having 1 vote per state, and one with votes by population
- Virginia Plan
- Favored large states, bicameral legislature based on population
- Author of the Bill of Rights, Father of Constitution
- James Madison
- Marbury Vs. Madison
- Madison made a bunch of last-minute appointments of people to government agencies
- Battle of New Orleans
- Andrew Jackson hero, battle fought two weeks after war ended
- Monroe Doctrine
- Europe not allowed to settle in the western hemisphere
- Precedents set by Washington
- Oath of office, 2 term limit, cabinet
- Democratic-Republican Positions
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Small fed. government
Strict interpretation of constitution
For the common people Agriculture economy
Small fed. debt
Powerful state governments - Louisana purchase
- Purchased from France for $15 million using Jefferson's Presidental Treaty Power
- Federalist Party Views
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Large Fed. government
Loose interpretation of the constitution
For the wealthy and powerful (high voting qualifications)
Industrial economy
Less powerful state government - American System
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Kept National Bank
Large protective tariff - Alien and Sedition Acts
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(Alien) - President can deport dangerous foreigners
(Sedition) - Imprison people for speaking out against the government - Frederick Douglass
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Ex-slave
Published the "North Star" - Father of Texas
- Stephen Austin
- Nat Turner (Rebellion)
- Killed all whites he came across (with his group) for several hours
- John Brown
- Harper's Ferry (Kills people, storms with small army, loses)
- Bleeding Kansas
- People migrated to Kansas to vote on slavery (Vote basically useless)
- Seneca Falls Declaration
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"Declaration of Sentiments"
Women's rights - Compromise of 1850
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California free
Pop. sovereignty to decide the slave issue in the rest of the land Mexico gave up
$10 million paid to Mexico
Abolition of Slave trade in DC
Fugitive slave law - George McClellan
- Head of Union army (1861-2), cautious general
- Antietam
- Bloodiest day, CSA wins
- Fort Sumter
- Began Civil War
- Gettysburg
- Turning point in the war
- 200,000
- Blacks who served in the Civil War
- 624,000
- Died in Civil War
- Border states
- Slave states in the union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware)
- Trent Affair
- Union removes two CSA people from British ships (Later apologize)
- Matthew Brady
- Famous Civil War photographer
- U.S. Grant Presidency
- Lots of scandals because he believed people would never be bad
- Compromise of 1877
- Hayes is the winner, North will take troops out of the South, southerner in the cabinet, money for the south
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- "Separate but equal" is constitutional