AMH&G I Final
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- "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" referred to a boundary dispute between the United States and
- Great Britain
- A government run by the people where everyone has an equal vote.
- democracy
- Who was the U.S. general who led troops to the Rio Grande, inside what Mexico perceived as its territory, and established conditions ripe for war?
- Zachary Taylor
- Which general led troops 800 miles to Santa Fe and accepted New Mexico's surrender?
- Stephen Kearny
- Who was the U.S. President during the War with Mexico?
- James K. Polk
- Well known and respected poet, and was also the first popular black American poet.
- Phillis Wheatley
- The Bear Flag Republic was the name given to
- independent California
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a. Stephen W. Kearny
b. Zachary Taylor
c. Winfield Scott
d. John C. Frémont
1. northern Mexico
2. California
3. Santa Fe
4. Mexico City
Match each American Officer above with his theater of command in the Mexican - a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2
- The "forty-niners" were people associated with the
- California gold rush
- From 1821 to 1824, __________ leads the first of several groups of American settlers to a fertile area along the Brazos River in Texas. Each family recives a large amount of farmland and grazing land at a bargain price.
- Stephen F. Austin
- The battle MOST responsible for winning Texas its freedom from Mexico took place
- near the San Jacinto River
- The commander-in-chiefof the Texas rebels in the Texas Revolution was
- Sam Houston
- Joseph Smith was killed by his Nauvoo, Illinois, neighbors following disagreements over his
- Mormon beliefs
- A branch of government with two sections (houses).
- bicammeral
- The unpopular King of Great Britain during the period of the American Revolution
- King George III
- The annexation of Texas was delayed because of conflicts over
- the balance of free and slave states
- This person was killed in the Boston Massacre (might have been the leader of the mob)
- Crispus Attucks
- In 1845, the _____________ is disolved when Texas becomes the twenty-eighth state in the Union.
- Battle of San Jacinto
- Local organizations used to inform and unite colonists against Britian actions
- Sons/Daughters of Liberty
- In 1835, the ________ erupts, pitting Texans eager for independence from Mexico against the government of Mexico.
- Texas Revolution
- Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga
- Eathan Allen
- The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled territorial disputes between the United States and Great Britain in what is now
- Minnesota and Maine
- This united the colonists for the first time successfully, it was in protest of the Stamp Act
- Stamp Act Congress
- Willing to accept a plan (by a government).
- Sovereignty
- Seen as the leader of a war between the American Indians and the settlers of New England
- John Cuot
- The latitude 54 40 in "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" refers to the
- northern boundary of the Oregon Territory
- Legal document that permitted custom collectors to search any building for illegal goods
- writs of assistance
- In 1838, Texas asks the United States to ________ the republic into the Union.
- annex
- He united 18 American Indian tribes to try and force western settlers and soldiers from western lands
- Pontiac
- One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
- might give more power to the supporters of slavery
- Patriots ready in a mminute's notice to defend their colony
- minutemen
- A government run by representatives that are elected by the people.
- republic
- The principle writer of the Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Jefferson
- How many organized territories did the United States have in 1850?
- 8
- Well known Massachusetts patriot and critic of England
- William Pitt
- The Bear Flag Republic was set up in what is now the state of
- California
- He wrote the influential pamphlet, Common Sense
- Thomas Paine
- Taxes laid on imports and exports.
- tariffs
- Organized the Albany Plan of Union, was a printer, inventor, an American ambassador overseas, and helped write the Declaration of Independence.
- Ben Franklin
- In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of
- 49
- A list of priviledges and freedoms guarnteed to the citizens of the United States of America
- Bill of Rights
- In the 1840's, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
- Manifest Destiny
- A leading statesman in Parliament who favored the removal of troops from Boston and an end to the Intolerable Acts
- Sam Adams
- Western guide who helped open the land west of the Appalachin to settlers.
- Daniel Boone
- The unpopular British Prime Minister that decided to tax the colonies and influnced the British Parliament to do so.
- George Greenville
- A group of people with a feeling of unity based on sharing a common land and a common past.
- nation
- Colonists who wanted national independence
- patriots
- A group that allows many governments to work together for a shared goal.
- confederation
- Sailed for the Spanish Crown in the attempt to sail around the world. He died, but some of his crew and one of his ships succeded.
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Spanish system where A,erican Indians were entrusted to a Spanish settler to use them as laborers, but were expected to be taken care of and taught Christianity.
- econmienda
-
Father of the Constitution (
hewas allowed to take notes) - James Madison
- Plans of government.
- constitutions
- Spanish adventurers who conquered large parts of the Americas in the 1500's.
- conquistadores
- French explorer that searched for the Northwest passage around today's Gulf of St. Lawrence and popularized North America.
- Jacques Cartier
- Attempted to standardize an American language through the spelling of words.
- Noah Webster
- Official or legal additions (to the Constitution)
- amendment
- The view that the national government has only those powers and priviledges that are specifically written in the Constitution
- strict construction
- Peacemaker of the Constitution
- Ben Franklin
- Well respected author who also wrote history books on the American Revolution.
- Mercy O. Warren
- Made up of many different groups
- pluralistic
- Long decline in economic activity
- depression
- Italian chronicler that published a series of letters about the new world. His name caught on as the title to the "new world"
- Amerigo Vespucci
- The system set up by the Constitution in which the branches of government can limit each other's power
- checks and balances
- To come to an agreement by changing one's demands
- compromise
- Italian merchant who travled to China, stayed there for a while, travled back to Europe, and wrote about his adventures in the late 1200's
- Marco Polo
- This imaginary longitudinal line, as dec;ared by the Pore gave all the land and riches to the west of it to Spainand Portugal the east.
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- The area Europeans called the Asian lands of China, India, and the surrounding islands.
- The "Indies"
- To reject; especially the power to reject a proposed rule or law by the Presidet of the United States
- veto
- Self-sufficient communities established by Priest in the Americas.
- missions
- The view that the national government has powers and priviledges that are specifically stated and implied within the Constitution
- loose construction
- The leader of a mob that tried to take arms (guns) from a Confederational Arsenal in MA.
- Daniel Shays
- People who were opposed to the ratification of the Constitution
- Anti-Federalists
- Popular painter during and after the American Revolution.
- Charles W. Peale
- The three goals of the early European explorers to acquire for there country (especially the Spanish).
- God, Gold, Glory
- He founded a school of navigation to expand trade with Africa and the Indies (so he could increase his nation's welath and power).
- Prince Henry of Portugal
- People who supported the ratification of the Constitution
- Federalists
- This was formed by connecting several western roads (from VA to Cumbland Gap to KY)
- Wilderness Road
- One of New Hampshire's delegates to the constitutional Convention
- John Langdon
- Division of power into executive, legislative, and judicial branches
- separation of powers
- Presiding Officer of the Constitution
- George Washington
- Having the power to control one's own affairs.
- ratify
- Officially accused of wrongdoingin public office by the House of Representatives
- impeached