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| 1155294859 | Oregon treaty | signed between us and britain jointly control the area | 0 | |
| 1155294860 | Panic of 1837 | triggered by andrew jackson for taking the money out of banks and putting them in banks that went under. people did not have enough gold and silver. jackson said u can only use gold or silver to buy things, and the lack created this. | 1 | |
| 1155294861 | Treaty of Paris | ends the am rev war. US receives land between appalachian mountains and mississippi river, almost all. and great britain keeps canada. | 2 | |
| 1155294862 | Pocket veto | congress can pass a law, the president can approve it or veto it. this is when the president does not sign the veto, the congressional term ends and the bill just dies | 3 | |
| 1155294863 | Powhatan confederacy | poccahantas fam, or indians in jamestown. named after poccs father. all the indians band together when they saw the whites coming. | 4 | |
| 1155294864 | Primary source | actual documents or accounts from an era being studied | 5 | |
| 1155294865 | Proportional representation | belief that representation in legislature should be based on population. large likes this, small wanted one per state, so they compromised with a two house legislature, 1 rep for every 5,000 people | 6 | |
| 1155294866 | Proprietorships | Settlements in America that were given to individuals who could govern and regulate the territory in any manner they desire.. CPR william penn | 7 | |
| 1155294867 | Quartering act | 1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies. | 8 | |
| 1155294868 | Ratifying conventions | A meeting of delegates in each state to determine whether that state would ratify the Constitution | 9 | |
| 1155294869 | Removal act of 1830 | An act that forced all Indians to accept an exchange for their land in the East for land in Indian Territory (further west). | 10 | |
| 1155294870 | Revival meetings | religious meetings consisting of soul-searching, preaching and prayer that took place during the second Great Awakening at the beginning of the nineteenth century. some lasted over one week | 11 | |
| 1155294871 | Salem witch trials | 1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress | 12 | |
| 1155294872 | Salutary neglect | An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies | 13 | |
| 1155294873 | Secession | Formal withdrawal of a state from the Union. South threatened to do this many times and finally would in 1861. | 14 | |
| 1155294874 | Second continental congress | unofficial government of the colonies. A convention of delegates from the twelve colonies (except Georgia) which managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence. | 15 | |
| 1155294875 | Second great awakening | A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans. | 16 | |
| 1155294876 | Second national bank | Proposed by Madison in 1816, would issue national currency, private enterprise with 1/5 owned by government, stabilized economy, opposed by Jackson who was a strict constructionist (he was overidden by Congress); he tried to weaken the bank by creating "pet banks" and telling the states to tax the national government | 17 | |
| 1155294877 | Secondary source | a historical account written after the event | 18 | |
| 1155294878 | Separatists | religious group that opposed the church of england. this group first went to Holland, and then some went to the Americas and called themselves pilgrims | 19 | |
| 1155294879 | Spoil system | the president is allowed to fill gov jobs with political allies and former campaign workers. | 20 | |
| 1155294880 | Stamp act | 1765, A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies. violation of the magna carta because it was not a tariff | 21 | |
| 1155294881 | States rights | concept that the individual states have the power to decide wether federal legislature or regulations are to be enforced within the individual states. | 22 | |
| 1155294882 | Stono rebellion | two key rebellions. this is in south carolina and 75 slaves killed white citizens and took amunition and after it was squashed, harder discipline was imposed by slave owners. largest slave rebellion of the 1700's | 23 | |
| 1155294883 | Suffolk resolves | sent to 1st cont congress and said if you need to we will go to war with england | 24 | |
| 1155294884 | Sugar act | a lot of people did not want to pay for british sugar, so they paid smugglers and got cheap sugar. brit got mad, taxed sugar | 25 | |
| 1155294885 | Tariff of 1816 | beginning of the protectionist tariff that henry clay advocates in his protectionist system. raised import duties by nearly 25 percent | 26 | |
| 1155294886 | Tea act of 1773 | they cut back on all other taxes, and said we will only tax u on tea. people were unhappy bc they gave the monopoly to the british east india company. | 27 | |
| 1155294887 | Three-fifths compromise | when the new constitution was being debated, southern states argued that slaves should be counted as people. north said no. they agreed that each slave would count as three fifths of a free person | 28 | |
| 1155294888 | Townshend acts | acts that they had to pay more tax on tea, paper, paint, but they were repealed in 1770. and they just made them pay the tea tax. | 29 | |
| 1155294889 | Battle of tenton | one of Washington's great victories. day after Christmas, they were drunk, Washington surrounded them. 950 hessians were captured. a huge phsycological boosts to the americans. W lost more than he won | 30 | |
| 1155294890 | Twelfth amendment | Jefferson and Burr. Separate ballots for president and vice president | 31 | |
| 1155294891 | Triangular trade system | take the slaves to the Americas, pick up sugar cane then sell the slaves there, refine the canes into rum and the finished product went to europe. AFRICA --> AMERICA--> EUROPE and back down | 32 | |
| 1155294892 | Uncle toms cabin | written by harriet beecher stowe. uncle tom is beaten to death. stirs the country up and polarizes the north and south | 33 | |
| 1155294893 | Unicameral legislature | one house. pennsylvania has this . | 34 | |
| 1155294894 | Valley forge | winter where washington and his troops were stationed. so many died. tough time because so many died and deserted. | 35 | |
| 1155294895 | War or 1812 | war between brit and america over brit seizures of am ships. repeat of am rev war. ended by treaty of ghent | 36 | |
| 1155294896 | Battle of yorktown | final battle of am rev war. general cornwallis was surrounded and gave up. defeat ended british hope for winning the rev war. | 37 | |
| 1155294897 | Gadsden Purchase | territory from arizona through new mexico that us purchased from mexico in 1853. bought to ensure the southern route of the transcontinental railroad be in american territory. last purchase that makes up the contiguous states of america | 38 | |
| 1155294898 | Treaty of Ghent | treaty between US and Britain ending the war of 1812. restored diplomatic relations between the 2 countries but did not address the issues that had initially caused the war | 39 | |
| 1155294899 | Hessians | german troops who fought in the rev war on the side of britain, paid mercenaries | 40 | |
| 1155294900 | Historiography | study of history. concerned with how events are interpreted, not the events themselves. | 41 | |
| 1155294901 | Huguenots | French Protestants influenced by John Calvin | 42 | |
| 1155294902 | Hunter-gatherers | People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive | 43 | |
| 1155294903 | Inca empire | advanced wealthy civilization in the andes mountain region. conquered by pizarro | 44 | |
| 1155294904 | Indentured servants | Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years | 45 | |
| 1155294905 | Jays treaty | treaty to end tension between US and B, B refused to make concession to US over the rights of american ships, and tension over this issue led to the cause of the War of 1812 | 46 | |
| 1155294906 | Judicial review | supreme court had the power to decide the constitutionality of any law passed by the US congress or by the legislature of any state | 47 | |
| 1155294907 | Kentucky and Virginia resolves | maintained that the alien and sedation acts were unconstitutional and predated the southern argument that individual states could nullify federal laws deemed unconstitutional by the states | 48 | |
| 1155294908 | Land speculation | practice of buying land with the intent of selling it off in the future for a profit. hundreds bought florida swamp land hoping to sell it for a profit | 49 | |
| 1155294909 | Lewis and Clark Expedition | mission by jefferson to explore the louisiana territory to create good relations with the indians. reports said the territory was well worth what they paid for it | 50 | |
| 1155294910 | Lexington | first skirmish between B and US, the battle killed 8 colonist and wounded 9. | 51 | |
| 1155294911 | The liberator | An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed. | 52 | |
| 1155294912 | London company | King James I gave this company a charter to settle the Virginia territory. | 53 | |
| 1155294913 | Louisiana purchase | the 1803 purchase of the huge Luisiana territory from napoleon for $15. | 54 | |
| 1155294914 | Lowell system | Developed in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1820s, in these factories as much machinery as possible was used, so that few skilled workers were needed in the process, and the workers were almost all single young farm women, who worked for a few years and then returned home to be housewives. Managers found these young women were the perfect workers for this type of factory life. | 55 | |
| 1155294915 | Loyalists | American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence. most fled to canada or back to Great Britain, they were usually the higher class of colonial society. | 56 | |
| 1155294916 | Manifest destiny | A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. | 57 | |
| 1155294917 | Marbury v madison | This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review to decide weather laws are constitutional or not. | 58 | |
| 1155294918 | Middle passage | voyage across the atlantic taken by slaves on their way to america. sickness, disease and death were rampant as slave ships crossed the Atlantic. 20% on ship died before land | 59 | |
| 1155294919 | Midnight appointments | judicial appointments made by an outgoing president in the last hours before he or she leaves office. | 60 | |
| 1155294920 | Monroe doctrine | 1823 - Declared that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S. It also declared that a New World colony which has gained independence may not be recolonized by Europe. (It was written at a time when many South American nations were gaining independence). Only England, in particular George Canning, supported the Monroe Doctrine. Mostly just a show of nationalism, the doctrine had no major impact until later in the 1800s. | 61 | |
| 1155294921 | National bank | Similar to the Bank of England, planned by Hamilton and funded by gov. thought it would give economic security and confidence to the nation. Republicans who originally opposed it, agreed in 1815 when they supported Henry Clay's American System. | 62 | |
| 1155294922 | Non intercourse act | 1809 - Replaced the Embargo of 1807. Unlike the Embargo, which forbade American trade with all foreign nations, this act only forbade trade with France and Britain. It did not succeed in changing British or French policy towards neutral ships, so it was replaced by Macon's Bill No. 2. | 63 | |
| 1155294923 | John Brown (has to do with bleeding kansas) | pulls out 5 pro slavers out of there camp and he hung them without trial! Breaks into arsenal to give slaves guns to rise up against the masters. He is captured and hung. | 64 | |
| 1155294924 | Abolitionist movement | movement dedicated to the end of slavery, mostly in the north before the civil war and had both black and white members | 65 | |
| 1155294925 | Albany congress | meeting of reps from 7 colonies to join efforts against the French and Indian threats in the western frontier it fails | 66 | |
| 1155294926 | Alien and sedition acts | proposed by john adams Acts passed giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute anyone who wrote negatively about the gov | 67 | |
| 1155294927 | American colonization society | stated that the best way to tend slavery was for backs to emigrate to africa, a few did. views mostly rejected | 68 | |
| 1155294928 | American system | Henry clap promoted it after the war of 1812. it promoted economic growth by using protective tariffs to encourage Americans to buy more domestic goods | 69 | |
| 1155294929 | Articles of confederation | established the first official gov of the Us, allowed much power to remain in the states, fed gov only has limited powers. replaced by the constitution in 1788 | 70 | |
| 1155294930 | Aztecs | advanced indian society in central mexico, conquered by cortes. | 71 | |
| 1155294931 | Bear flag republic | californian settlers declared independence form mexican control. this political act was a part of larger american political and military strategy to wrest texas and california from mexico | 72 | |
| 1155294932 | Bicameral legislature | legislative structure with2 houses, adopted by the authors of the us constitution. seats for states in house of reps is determined by population, all states have equal seats in the senate. | 73 | |
| 1155294933 | Bill of rights | added to the constitution. freedom of speech, press, the right to bear arms and other basic rights of american citizens | 74 | |
| 1155294934 | Boston Massacre | conflict between british soldiers and boston civilians after civilians threw rocks and snowballs at the soldiers, the soldiers opened fire , killing five and wounding six. | 75 | |
| 1155294935 | Boston tea Party | in response to the tea act, boston radicals disguised as indians and threw nearly 350 chests of tea into boston harbor | 76 | |
| 1155294936 | Cherokee nation v. Georgia | they are there own seperate nation, so they cannot appeal to the federal court. they will be pushed out with the trail of tears | 77 | |
| 1155294937 | Church of England | also called the anglican church, protestant established church by king henry viii. caused some to leave for america | 78 | |
| 1155294938 | Colonial assemblies | every colony has it and it is bicameral. reflects england. house of burgesses in Va was the 1st,. members were upper class or colonial society | 79 | |
| 1155294939 | Common sense | publication by thomas paine. repudiated gov by monarchy and this doc sparked public sentiment for independence | 80 | |
| 1155294940 | Compromise of 1850 | temporarily lessened tensions between north and south political leaders. strengthened fugitive slave act to appease south. cali entered union as a free state to appease north. (fix from notes) | 81 | |
| 1155294941 | Battle of concord | between brit regulars and mass militiamen. 275 brit sldiers were wounded. as a result a wider conflict between the colonies and the brits became more probable | 82 | |
| 1155294942 | Confederate states of America | A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States | 83 | |
| 1155294943 | Continentals | soldiers in american army commanded by washington in the rev war. also a term used for paper money printed in 1781 that was soon made worthless by inflation | 84 | |
| 1155294944 | Currency act | forbade the issue of paper money. repealed in 1773 as an effort to ease tension with the colonies | 85 | |
| 1155294945 | Democratic party | advocated limited gov. birth during andrew jackson, principles from thomas jefferson, states rights | 86 | |
| 1155294946 | Democratic republicans | believed ideas of thomas jefferson, opposed the federalists who wanted a strong national state and a society dominated by commercial interests | 87 | |
| 1155294947 | Embargo of 1807 | declaration by jefferson that banned all american trade with europe. hoped it would force England and France to respect american neutrality. because of impressment | 88 | |
| 1155294948 | Era of good feelings | term used to describe years 1816-1823 after the war of 1812 when US was free of foreign conflicts and political strife at home was at a bare minimum | 89 | |
| 1155294949 | First great awakening | religious revival in american homes. jonathan Edwards led it and made religious colonial splits deeper | 90 | |
| 1155294950 | Franciscans | missionaries who established settlements in the southwestern US. christian conversions, and used indians as slaves. rebellions against missions and the soldiers sent to protect them began in 1598 | 91 | |
| 1155294951 | Freeport doctrine | idea that despite the Dred scott supreme court decision, a territory could still prevent slavery by electing officials who were opposed to it and by creating laws and regulations that would make slavery impossible to enforce | 92 | |
| 1155294952 | free soil party | opposed the spread of slavery into any of the recently acquired american territories. mainly former members of the whig party in the north | 93 | |
| 1155294953 | Ordinance of nullification | South Carolina declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void and forbade the collection of those duties. In February, 1833, they threatened secession if federal bureaucrats tried to collect them. | 94 | |
| 1155294954 | Oregon trail | purpose, they travel on a horse and they are too poor to take a ship. thats why they use these overland trails. by 1860 325000 americans traveled along the trail. a very popular trail | 95 | |
| 1155294955 | Outworkers | laborers, especially women who did piecework in small shops or in their homes | 96 | |
| 1155294956 | Personal liberty laws | Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves | 97 | |
| 1155294957 | Polygamy | Having more than one spouse | 98 | |
| 1155294958 | Poor whites | lowest class of southern whites who worked poor soil and had a rep of being lazy, shiftless and illiterate | 99 | |
| 1155294959 | Popular sovereignty | A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. | 100 | |
| 1155294960 | Power of the purse | Constitutional power given to Congress to raise and spend money | 101 | |
| 1155294961 | Preemption acts | gave squatters the right to settle public lands and purchase them for low prices once the government put them up for sale | 102 | |
| 1155294962 | Presidential reconstruction | was the President's idea of reconstruction : all states had to end slavery, states had to declare that their secession was illegal, and men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S. | 103 | |
| 1155294963 | Price revolution | increase in prices in 16th century-inflation-increased demand for goods-influx of gold and silver | 104 | |
| 1155294964 | Prince henry | Sent others to explore for him, made very first explorer school, first person to value exploring | 105 | |
| 1155294965 | Protestant reformation | 16th century series of religious actions which led to establishment of the Protestant churches. Led by Martin Luther | 106 | |
| 1155294966 | Public virtue | willingness of the people to sacrifice their own self-interest for the good of the whole. revolutionary generation relied on this when they did not have a government | 107 | |
| 1155294967 | Puritans | A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. | 108 | |
| 1155294968 | Quakers | A form of Protestantism in which the believers were pacifists and would shake at the power of the word of the Lord. INWARD LIGHT | 109 | |
| 1155294969 | Queen Anne's war | second of the wars for empire and ended with major gains for the english in the peace of utrecht. britain recieves hudson bay and novascoshia | 110 | |
| 1155294970 | Redemption | southern democratic term for the end of reconstruction and the return of white southern democratic rule to the south | 111 | |
| 1155294971 | Republican party | replaced the whigs and was opposed to the expansion of slavery, anti catholic, in favor of federal efforts to promote commerce and industry | 112 | |
| 1155294972 | Revolutionary republicanism | emphasized dangers of gov by arguing that only by controlling power and corruption could liberty be preserved. | 113 | |
| 1155294973 | Seneca falls convention | led by elizabeth Stanton and Mott, the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written | 114 | |
| 1155294974 | Seven years war | war between france and england, resulted in the english gaining control of the eastern half of north america | 115 | |
| 1155294975 | Shay's rebellion | 1786 revolt by Massachusetts farmers seeking relief from debt and foreclosure that was a factor in the calling of the Constitutional Convention. | 116 | |
| 1155294976 | Sons and daughters of liberty | anti british, intimidate merchants not to buy british goods. in 1773 they had a spot of tea and initiate the boston tea party. | 117 | |
| 1155294977 | Spanish armada | "Invincible" group of ships sent by King Philip II of Spain to invade England in 1588; Armada was defeated by smaller, more maneuverable English "sea dogs" in the Channel; marked the beginning of English naval dominance and fall of Spanish dominance. | 118 | |
| 1155294978 | Stamp act congress | convention of delegates from nine colonies to protest british tax policies | 119 | |
| 1155294979 | Stratified society | society that maintains social classes. maintained in europe in the 16th century and favored by the elite | 120 | |
| 1155294980 | Tariff of abominations | high protective tariff designed to win votes for andrew jackson's presidential campaign | 121 | |
| 1155294981 | Task system | type of organization of labor that gave each slave a specific assignment to complete daily. had more rest time, but more pressure to preform well | 122 | |
| 1155294982 | Trail of tears | forced march of the chereokees out of the land west of the mississippi river.at least %20 died | 123 | |
| 1155294983 | Guadalupe hidalgo | treaty that ended the mexican war and resulted in US gaining New mexico and California | 124 | |
| 1155294984 | Treaty of Tordesillas | 1494 dividedthe Atlantic world between two maritime powers, reserving for Portugal the West African coast and the route to India and giving Spain the oceans and the lands to the west | 125 | |
| 1155294985 | Urbanization | a development that majority of Us lives in cities | 126 | |
| 1155294986 | Virginia plan | "Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger states and thus prompted smaller states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representation. (star this) | 127 | |
| 1155294987 | Wage slavery | phares to describe workers dependence on earning wages by working for others with little chance of becoming independent during the course of their lives. | 128 | |
| 1155294988 | Whig ideology | political belief that held that concentrated power was the enemy of liberty, and the best was balanced gov, elected legislatures, no standing armies and eternal vigilance of the people | 129 | |
| 1155294989 | Whigs | I HATE ANDREW JACKSON PARTY advocated politics as a vehicle for the reform of society, and opposed Jackson and increases in the power of the executive branch of government | 130 | |
| 1155294990 | Whiskey rebellion | farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey; the army, led by Washington, put down the rebellion; showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem | 131 | |
| 1155294991 | Wilmont proviso | bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the war with mexico | 132 | |
| 1155294992 | XYZ affair | three french commissioners demanded a bribe in exchange for the opportunity to negotiate an accord between france and the US. provoked outcries for war in the US | 133 | |
| 1155294993 | Glorious revolution | A reference to the political events of 1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange. | 134 | |
| 1155294994 | Great compromise | was between the large and small states of the colonies. it resolved that there would be representation by population in the House of Representatives, and equal representation would exist in the Senate. Each state, regardless of size, would have 2 senators. All tax bills and revenues would originate in the House. This combined the needs of both large and small states and formed a fair and sensible resolution to their problems. | 135 | |
| 1155294995 | Halfway covenant | A Puritan church document; In 1662, they allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members; Women soon made up a larger portion of Puritan congregations. | 136 | |
| 1155294996 | Hartford convention | Meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 in which the party listed it's complaints against the ruling Republican Party. These actions were largley viewed as traitorous to the country and lost the Federalist much influence | 137 | |
| 1155294997 | Impressment | British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service | 138 | |
| 1155294998 | Internal improvements | Federal projects, such as canals and roads, to develop the nation's transportation system | 139 | |
| 1155294999 | Iroquois confederacy | An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English, it dominated W. New England. (488) | 140 | |
| 1155295000 | Jacksonian democrats | adopted personal liberties and local rule, emphasized the freedom of the individual to follow his own interests, and appealed primarily to the common man | 141 | |
| 1155295001 | Jeffersonian Republicans | advocated a weak central government, more power vested in the states, and a society and economy based on independent yeoman farmers | 142 | |
| 1155295002 | John Brown's raid | A plan to provide weapons to slaves to start a revolt on slavery. It failed and John Brown was hung for treason, increased tensions between north and south | 143 | |
| 1155295003 | Kansas-Nebraska act | 1854 - This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and established a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. Popular sovereignty (vote of the people) would determine whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free states. | 144 | |
| 1155295004 | King Philips war | 1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion. | 145 | |
| 1155295005 | Kivas | Underground chambers in a Pueblo village, used by the men for religious ceremonies or councils. | 146 | |
| 1155295006 | Magna carta | agreement forced on the english king by the aristocracy and led to the regular meeting of a parliament | 147 | |
| 1155295007 | Matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother | 148 | |
| 1155295008 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought | 149 | |
| 1155295009 | Mexican war | (1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory. | 150 | |
| 1155295010 | Middleclass Values | virtues as har work, good character, diligence, punctuality, temperance, and thrift that are seen as upholding the status quo against unsettling changes | 151 | |
| 1155295011 | Missouri compromise | over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states. | 152 | |
| 1155295012 | Mormons | Church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, religious group that emphasized moderation, saving, hard work, and risk-taking; moved from IL to UT | 153 | |
| 1155295013 | Muslim | a follower of islam, called moors by europeans | 154 | |
| 1155295014 | Nat turner revolt | slave uprising designed to instill terror into white slave owners. resulted in death of 55 whites, at least as many blacks and the reinstallation of slave code laws throughout the south | 155 | |
| 1155295015 | National trades union | first national labor organization in the us, advocated shorter hours, better wages and ways to ward off competition of cheap labor | 156 | |
| 1155295016 | Navigation acts | regulated trade in an attempt to spread mercantilism to the colonies. | 157 | |
| 1155295017 | New jersey plan | william paterson introduced it to counter the virginia plan and urged retention of the articles of confederation, and a supreme court | 158 | |
| 1155295018 | New netherland | center of dutch trade in the hudson river valley was ultimately taken over by the english and became new york | 159 | |
| 1155295019 | Northern ordinance | three laws (1784, 1785, 1787) that dealt with the sale of public lands in the Northwest Territory and established a plan for the admission of new states to the Union. | 160 | |
| 1155295020 | Agricultural revolution | A time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster. The production of food rose dramatically. | 161 | |
| 1155295021 | Antebellum South | Term used to refer to the approzimately 3 decades before 1860 when "king" cotton and the slave labor dominated the economy of the southern states | 162 | |
| 1155295022 | Anti-Federalists | A group who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1787. They opposed a strong central government (tyranny) and supported states' rights. "I smell a rat!" | 163 | |
| 1155295023 | Antinomianism | An interpretation of Puritan beliefs that stressed God's gift of salvation and minimized what an individual could do to gain salvation; identified with Anne Hutchinson. | 164 | |
| 1155295024 | Bacons Rebellion | an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year. The uprising was a protest against the governor of Virginia, William Berkeley. | 165 | |
| 1155295025 | Bank War | Jackson believed the Bank of US had too much power and was too rich. Vetoed the 2nd Bank charter and withdrew gov't money from the US Banks and put it into "pet banks" | 166 | |
| 1155295026 | Battle of Fallen Timbers | 1794 battle between Native Americans and American forces, happens because the indians are prepping and the americans crush them and force them to give up their land with the treaty of greenville and its a generous treaty. | 167 | |
| 1155295027 | Battle of Horseshoe Bend | fought during the War of 1812 in central Alabama. On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe inspired by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, effectively ending the Creek War. | 168 | |
| 1155295028 | Bleeding Kansas | civil war in kansas in 1856 as a result of the kansas nebraska act. residence could decide if they would allow slavery or not, so anti and pro fought. | 169 | |
| 1155295029 | Board of Trade | British overseer of all matters pertaining to colonial trade and laws. | 170 | |
| 1155295030 | Border states | in the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri | 171 | |
| 1155295031 | Calvinism | Protestant sect founded by John Calvin. Emphasized a strong moral code and believed in predestination (the idea that God decided whether or not a person would be saved as soon as they were born). Calvinists supported constitutional representative government and the separation of church and state. | 172 | |
| 1155295032 | Committees of correspondence | leaders of resistance to british rule listed their problems and circulated them to tall of the tons of the colony | 173 | |
| 1155295033 | Confederation of New England | first american attempt at a federal system of government. a short lived military alliance of the English colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven. Its primary purpose was to unite puritan colonies against the native Americans. | 174 | |
| 1155295034 | Cotton diplomacy | Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War | 175 | |
| 1155295035 | Cotton kingdom | Areas in the south where cotton farming developed because of the high demand for cotton | 176 | |
| 1155295036 | Debt peonage | A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer | 177 | |
| 1155295037 | Dominion of new England | (1686-1689) Administrative union created by royal authority, incorporating all of New England, New York, and East and West Jersey. Placed under the rule of Sir Edmund Andros who curved popular assembles, taxed residents without their consent, and strictly enforced Navigation Laws. Its collapse after the Glorious Revolution in England demonstrated colonial opposition to strict royal control. | 178 | |
| 1155295038 | Dred Scott case | Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property, affirmed that property cannot be interfered with by Congress, slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or states, fueled abolitionist movement, hailed as victory for the south | 179 | |
| 1155295039 | Electoral college | group selected to choose the president | 180 | |
| 1155295040 | Emancipation Proclamation | lincoln announced that slaves in states still in rebellion against the union were forever free | 181 | |
| 1155295041 | Enlightenment | A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions. | 182 | |
| 1155295042 | Excise taxes | Taxes placed on manufactured products. The excise tax on whiskey helped raise revenue for Hamilton's program. | 183 | |
| 1155295043 | Faction | organized political interest group. the revolutionary generation feared these would corrupt republican government and undermine public virtue | 184 | |
| 1155295044 | Federalist papers | A collection of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name "Publius" to defend the Constitution in detail. | 185 | |
| 1155295045 | Federalist party | A political party created in the 1790s and influenced by Alexander Hamilton that wanted to strengthen the federal government and promote industry and trade. | 186 | |
| 1155295046 | Federalists | supported a stronger national government and the replacement of the articles of confederation by the constitution | 187 | |
| 1155295047 | Fifty-four forty or fight | An aggressive slogan adopted in the Oregon boundary dispute, a dispute over where the border between Canada and Oregon should be drawn. This was also Polk's slogan - the Democrats wanted the U.S. border drawn at the 54º40' latitude. Polk settled for the 49º latitude in 1846. | 188 | |
| 1155295048 | First continental congress | a 1774 meeting in philli at which colonists vowed to resist further efforts to tax them without their consent | 189 | |
| 1155295049 | Force acts | gave the press power to supervuse to make sure citizens were not deprived of thier right to vote. , Acts passed to promote African American voting and mainly aimed at limiting the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Through the acts, actions committed with the intent to influence voters, prevent them from voting, or conspiring to deprive them of civil rights, including life, were made federal offenses. Thus the federal government had the power to prosecute the offenses, including calling federal juries to hear the cases. | 190 | |
| 1155295050 | Fort Laramie council | held in 1851between the U.S. and the Plains tribes where the U.S. agreed to pay compensation to the Indians for destruction of their lands but required the tribes to give up their right to free movement and restricted them to reduced lands | 191 | |
| 1155295051 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | 192 | |
| 1155295052 | Free soil | term for the idea that the western territories should not be open to the expansion of slavery. | 193 | |
| 1155295053 | Freedmen's bureau | 1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs | 194 | |
| 1155295054 | Freehold tenure | individual ownership of land in the colonies which allowed the colonists both economic independence and political rights such as the right to vote | 195 | |
| 1155295055 | Fugitive slave act | federal measure designed to assure that runaway slaves were returned to their masters. its enforcement outraged northerners who viewed it as a threat to individual liberties. | 196 |
