Based on the US History Honors Exam Study Guide
Some are Questions that I think might be on the test
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| 586342314 | 1492 | Columbus travels to Americas and opens them to Europe | |
| 586342315 | 1519-1525 | The Conquest of the Aztecs and Incas | |
| 586342316 | Virginia Company arrives at Jamestown | 1607 | |
| 586342317 | 1619 | First slaves from Africa to arrive in Jamestown | |
| 586342318 | 1754-1763 | French Indian War ended by the Treaty of Paris 1763 | |
| 586342319 | 1775-1781 | Revolutionary War; Cornwallis surrenders n 1781 | |
| 586342320 | July 4, 1776 | We officially declare our independence Declaration of Independence is signed by founding fathers | |
| 586342321 | 1781-1789 | US experiments with Confederation | |
| 586342322 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise (Mexico declares Independence) | |
| 586342323 | 1849 | Gold Rush, John Sutter finds first gold in California | |
| 586342324 | Confederation | group of states bound together, US tried after American Revolution (1781-1789). Iroquois form of government inspired us | |
| 586342325 | unicameral legislature | one body to make laws | |
| 586342326 | bicameral legislature | 2 bodies to make laws used by US | |
| 586342327 | House of Representatives | The body of legislature whose numbers of state's representatives are determined by the state's population | |
| 586342328 | Senate | the body of legislature that has a standard two representatives per state | |
| 586342329 | Legislative Branch | in charge of making laws, Senate and House | |
| 586342330 | Executive Branch | carry out laws, President | |
| 586342331 | Judicial Branch | determines what is constitutional, interpret federal laws, The Supreme Court | |
| 586342332 | Supreme Court | Court that determines what is and is not constitutional thanks to judiciary review, Justices are appointed by the president and can serve for life, must be approved by legislature, don't need specific qualifications. | |
| 586342333 | Democratic Republic | Government where the people indirectly choose representatives to represent them | |
| 586342334 | Democracy | Government where the people directly choose representatives to represent them | |
| 586342335 | Jeffersonian Democracy | people choose the rich to govern them | |
| 586342336 | Jacksonian Democracy | closer to what our democracy is today; where the common people can be elected and choose people like them to govern | |
| 586342337 | Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General | Original Presidential Cabinet Positions (Washington) | |
| 586342338 | Constitution | supreme law of the US; written by James Madison | |
| 586342339 | Bill of Rights | first 10 amendments to the US constitution; contains a list of individual rights and liberties. Was originally not a part of the constitution, enraging anti-federalists (Jefferson, when it was ratified but was added after two years as compromise by Madison | |
| 586342340 | Federalism | the idea of a federal organization of more or less self governing units; divided between the national and state governments | |
| 586342341 | Strict Interpretation | Interpreting the constitution strictly Jefferson | |
| 586342342 | Loose Interpretation | interpreting the constitution loosely Hamilton | |
| 586342343 | Elastic Clause | the part of the constitution that permits Congress to make any laws "necessary and proper" to carrying out its powers | |
| 586342344 | Hamiltonians vs Jeffersonians, Federalists vs Democratic Republicans, Republicans, National Republicans vs Jacksonian Democrats, Whigs vs Democrats, Republicans vs Democrats | Political Parties evolution | |
| 586342345 | Domestic Affairs | any government affairs that deal with the United States | |
| 586342346 | Foreign Affairs | Government affairs that deal with other countries and their relations to the United States | |
| 586342347 | Kitchen Cabinet | close friends of the president that are not in the cabinet, that the president goes to for advice, an example of a president with a one is Jackson, Polk's was his wife Sarah | |
| 586342348 | Electoral College | representatives from each state based on population that directly vote for the president | |
| 586342349 | Amendment process | how the government changes and adds to the Constitution | |
| 586342350 | Ratification process | to approve; the approval or formal sanction of an act (3/5) (at that time) 9/13 of colonies had to agree | |
| 586342351 | Domestic | goods made by hand--more intricate | |
| 586342352 | Industrial | goods made in factories | |
| 586342353 | thirteen colonies | the original colonies that the British formed on the East Coast | |
| 586342354 | Northwest Territory | the territory where Ohio and Michigan are located. was given to the US by Britain after the American Revolution | |
| 586342355 | Louisiana Territory | Territory that that the US bought from France/Napoleon for $15 million and Haiti, included New Orleans | |
| 586342356 | Texas Annexation | The addition of Texas to the Union in 1845 after the Texas Revolution in 1836 that made Texas an independent state from 1836-1845 (The Lone Star Republic). Fighting with Mexico over the Southern Boundary causes Mexican War | |
| 586342357 | Mexican Cession | land gained through Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo after the Mexican War | |
| 586342358 | Oregon Territory | added through a treaty with Britain that set the line for Canada at a standard 49 degrees latitude, and was added peacefully even after Polk's campaign boasted 54 40 or fight | |
| 586342359 | Gadsden Purchase | the souther part of New Mexico and Arizona that was bought to build a railroad there | |
| 586342360 | Virginia | Where is G. Washington From? | |
| 586342361 | Mt. Vernon | George Washington's estate | |
| 586342362 | French Indian War, Revolutionary War | Wars George Washington fought in | |
| 586342363 | Sally Fairfax | Best friend's wife that Washington falls in love with | |
| 586342364 | Martha | George Washington's wife | |
| 586342365 | John Adams | George Washington's Vice President | |
| 586342366 | Thomas Jefferson | George Washington's Secretary of State | |
| 586342367 | Alexander Hamilton | Washington's Secretary of the Treasury | |
| 586342368 | New York City | Where Washington was Inaugurated | |
| 586342369 | None | Washington's Political Party | |
| 586342370 | Braintree | Adams' estate | |
| 586342371 | John Adams | political patriot of revolution | |
| 586342372 | John Adams | Whose administration was the XYZ Affair | |
| 586342373 | Abigail Adams | John Adams' wife/ first feminist | |
| 586342374 | John Adams, Thomas Jefferson | Died on same day | |
| 586342375 | Alien Acts | President can deport/ imprison suspicious immigrants | |
| 586342376 | Sedition Act | president can imprison/deport people whenever he wants | |
| 586342377 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolution | written by Jefferson and Madison, they say that Alien and Sedition Acts are unconstitutional because they put the federal government above state law | |
| 586342378 | Monticello | Jefferson's estate | |
| 586342379 | University of Virginia | University Jefferson designed | |
| 586342380 | Thomas Jefferson | wrote declaration of religious freedom | |
| 586342381 | Deism | Thomas Jefferson's Religion | |
| 586342382 | Martha | Jefferson's wife | |
| 586342383 | Sally Hemmings | Jefferson's slave/mistress | |
| 586342384 | Thomas Jefferson | Founder of Democratic Republican Party | |
| 586342385 | Aaron Burr | Jefferson's VP/kills Hamilton; disappears | |
| 586342386 | Montpelier | Madison's estate | |
| 586342387 | James Madison | Father of Constitution | |
| 586342388 | James Madison | Jefferson's Secretary of State | |
| 586342389 | Dolly | Madison's wife | |
| 586342390 | William Henry Harrison | Hero of Tippecanoe | |
| 586342391 | Tecumseh | Leader of Tippecanoe Indians | |
| 586342392 | Star spangled banner, White house, flag, hero, nationalism | what we get from war of 1812 | |
| 586342393 | Treaty of Ghent | Ends War of 1812 signed by John Quincey Adams | |
| 586342394 | Era of Good Feeling | synonymous with Monroe Administration one political party | |
| 586342395 | Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C Calhoun | Great Triumvirate from West, North and South | |
| 586342396 | Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe | Virginia Dynasty president (exclude Adams) | |
| 586342397 | James Monroe | Washington's second secretary of state after Jefferson resigns | |
| 586342398 | James Monroe | Gets Layfayette from France | |
| 586342399 | Missouri enters as slave state, Maine enters as Free state, 36 30 line established | Missouri Compromise Determines... | |
| 586342400 | John Quincey Adams | Wrote Monroe Doctrine | |
| 586342401 | American System | idea of Henry Clay's that we should be self sufficient and pass resources from agricultural west to Industrial north to plantation south and vice versa | |
| 586342402 | John Quincey Adams, Henry Clay | participants in the corrupt bargain | |
| 586342403 | John Quincey Adams, Louisa | President with British Wife and her name | |
| 586342404 | Gag rule | Adams not allowed to bring up issue of slavery in House of Representatives | |
| 586342405 | Old Hickory | Jackson's nickname | |
| 586342406 | Democrat | Jackson political party | |
| 586342407 | Tennessee | Jackson's home state | |
| 586342408 | Hermitage | Jackson's estate | |
| 586342409 | Rachel | Jackson's wife | |
| 586342410 | people's palaces | name given to hotels | |
| 586342411 | Van Buren | President who goes out in suit and carriage, enraging people in economic panic of 1837 | |
| 586342412 | William Henry Harrison | President who dies after giving long inaugural address in the rain | |
| 586342413 | John Tyler | President after Harrison's death called his Accidency | |
| 586342414 | John Tyler | President married in White House | |
| 586342415 | James K Polk | President with brilliant wife Sarah | |
| 586342416 | Andrew Jackson | President of Peggy Eaton Affair | |
| 586342417 | Hernan Cortez | Leader of the conquistadores that conquered the Aztecs from 1519-1525 using psychology, horses and advanced weaponry | |
| 586342418 | Columbus | sailed to Americas in 1492 and opens Americas to Europeans | |
| 586342419 | John Cabot | Explorer that English send to the Americans to claim the land for England in an attempt to take on Spain in New world) was Italian real name Giovanni Caboto looking for fabled Northwest Passage | |
| 586342420 | Jacques Cartier | Explorer that the French sent to claim the New World for France. Was looking for the Northwest passage which didn't exist | |
| 586342421 | John Smith | English Explorer and co-founder of the colony at Jamestown in Virginia | |
| 586342422 | John Rolfe | Man that actually married Pocahantas and saved Jamestown by planting and producing the cash crop, Tobacco | |
| 586342423 | William Penn | Founder of Pennsylvania colony for Quakers founded as a non-violent group | |
| 586342424 | King George III | King during American revolution who went insane | |
| 586342425 | Marquis de Lafayette | French nobleman, invested in Democracy who serves under George Washington in the American Revolition and becomes a close friend, receives help from France. Is captured during French Revolition Washington sends envoy to save him | |
| 586342426 | General Cornwallis | British general who surrendered at Yorktown, ending the American Revolution | |
| 586342427 | Abigail Adams | John Adams' wife who told him to remember women when he was writing Constitution and had to deal with hem while he travelled before and after Revolution. | |
| 586342428 | Samuel Adams | American Revolutionary leader and patriot an organizer of the Boston Tea Party, Committees of Correspondence and founder of sons and daughters of liberty he signed the declaration of independence | |
| 586342429 | John Hancock | Patriot and head of Continental Congress, a brazen leader | |
| 586342430 | Alexander Hamilton | Republican political party stemmed form his political ideas; Secretary of Treasury under Washington, and died in a duel against Jefferson's Vice President Aaron Burr | |
| 586342431 | John Jay | First Supreme Court Justice, United States diplomat who negotiated peace treaties with Britain went down in infamy of due to Jay Treaty 1794 | |
| 586342432 | John Marshall | Supreme Court Chief Justice appointed by Adams who opposed Indian Removal Policy, and Judiciary Review | |
| 586342433 | Roger Taney | United States Supreme Court Justice who is remembered for his ruling that slaves are property not people | |
| 586342434 | Pierre-Charles L'Enfant | Frenchman who designed and built Washington DC, round areas in grass were for cannons | |
| 586342435 | John Eaton, Peggy Eaton | John Eaton was the secretary of war under Andrew Jackson, his wife Peggy Eaton was an illegitimate child and the subject of the Peggy Eaton Affair | |
| 586342436 | Samuel Slater | memorized how to create a factory then sailed to US and created the first factory in Massachusetts. Creates the impetus of economy of industry in North | |
| 586342437 | Henry Clay | One of three most influential men who never became president from the West and served their purposes. Secretary of State for John Quincey Adams. He came up with the American System. Known as The Great Compromiser for his role in the Great Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. Battled Jackson on National Bank, a part of the corrupt bargain | |
| 586342438 | John C Calhoun | From South, impetus of nullification, states rights over federal rights, impetus of thoughts of secession | |
| 586342439 | Daniel Webster | Debated Haynes in Congress about nullification, most scholarly, most moral conviction, no political ambitious, greats contribution is senator | |
| 586342440 | Eli Whitney | Creator of Cotton Gin | |
| 586342441 | William Lloyd Garrison | Notable abolitionist. Creator of a newspaper called the LiberatorBurned constitution because he thought it was so hypocritical | |
| 586342442 | Elijah Lovejoy | Abolitionist who was killed for the cause | |
| 586342443 | Frederick Douglass | Abolitionist leader who was the first African American to have an appointed government job | |
| 586342444 | Jonathan Edwards | A puritanical preacher who used fear to influence people in the Great Awakening | |
| 586342445 | Dorothea Dix | Leader of the Hospital and Institutional Reforms, succeeded in reforming insane asylums | |
| 586342446 | Emerson, Thoreau | Transcendentalists | |
| 586342447 | Joseph Smith | Founder of Mormons, charismatic, murdered | |
| 586342448 | Brigham Young | leads mormons to Salt Lake City | |
| 586342449 | Susan B Anthony, Lucretia Mott | Women right's leaders | |
| 586342450 | Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas | Iroquois Confederation tribe names | |
| 586342451 | New York | Iroquois location | |
| 586342452 | Longhouses | Iroquois dwelling | |
| 586342453 | Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole | Five Civilized Tribes | |
| 586342454 | Cherokee | Trail of Tears tribe | |
| 586342455 | Seminole | Tribe that succeeded in warding off Indian Removal policy enforcers | |
| 586342456 | Conquistadores | Spanish conquerors who conquered in God's name | |
| 586342457 | Columbian Exchange | The transfer of ideas, goods, crops, diseases, between Old and New World,,, between Europe and Americas, what each got out of it Not a trade route | |
| 586342458 | Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in N America founded by Virginia Company | |
| 586342459 | Puritans | English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England's Catholic rituals and creeds, Separatists, accused people of witch craft | |
| 586342460 | Pilgrims | Early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth Massachusetts The left England because they were tired of the Church of England. Came to America first Mayflower, Thanksgiving | |
| 586342461 | Salem Witch Hysteria | Salem Massachusetts when women were accused of being witches | |
| 586342462 | Spectral Evidence | accusing with no proof; witch hunting without real evidence, you just have to accuse | |
| 586342463 | colonialism | mother country controlling an area of land a settlement called a colony where the mother control completely controls everything, a mother child relationship | |
| 586342464 | Mercantilism | economic system based on the idea that colonies exist solely to make mother country rich | |
| 586342465 | Northwest Passage | myth, an all water route through the Americas to try to get to Asia | |
| 586342466 | Indentured Servants | Migrants who in exchange for transatlantic passage, bond themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service. Seven year agreement Turns to slavery; white servants become free; prevalent in North | |
| 586342467 | Triangular Trade Route | The trade route from Europe to Africa to America back to Europe across the Atlantic Ocean | |
| 586342468 | Middle Passage | The trade route of the Triangular Trade Route from Africa to America brings Slaves to America; horrible conditions | |
| 586342469 | House of Burgesses | Headed by British, a place for all colonies to get together under British rule eventually falls apart and conventions established | |
| 586342470 | Great Awakening | a religious revival where speakers travelled through America enlightening the people on new religious ideas and views. | |
| 586342471 | French Indian War | War between British and French for control of America, help of the Indians over land and power in the New World | |
| 586342472 | Treaty of Paris 1763 | Ended the French and Indian War, ritish won giving them control of Missisisippi. French Haiti, Quebec, and they keep land west of Mississippi. Colonists not allowed to cross Proclamation line, Proclamation of 1763 | |
| 586342473 | Proclamation of 1763 | Part of Treaty of Paris 1763, Firbids Americans from going into American territories, to protect from scalping Indians, Not strongly enforced but Americans don't really want to go to the Ohio territory Not meant as punishment Big deal when we started hating Brithsi | |
| 586342474 | Stamp Act | An act imposed by British that raised Revenue for British for the new military force. It taxed all stamped paper. Americans reacted with Stamp Act Congress and the Non important agreement | |
| 586342475 | Intolerable Acts | Reaction to Boston Tea Party Boston Port Act Quebec Act Quartering Act limited Massachusetts rights | |
| 586342476 | Boston Massacre | British Troops in front of an arsenal opened fire on Bostonians. It was used by Paul Revere as propagandas to spread rebellious ideology | |
| 586342477 | Boston Tea Party | 1773, men throw tea into Boston Harbor | |
| 586342478 | Sons and Daughters of Liberty | Secret society of spies founded by Sam Adams in Boston | |
| 586342479 | Common Sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that stated that it was simply common sense that we should no longer be governed by the British | |
| 586342480 | First Continental Congress | Reaction to Intolerable Acts, sent Olvie Branch petition, start preparing for attack at Concord | |
| 586342481 | Second Continental Congress | Body of delegates from colonies that deal with war effort, establish Washignton as leader, all founding fathers | |
| 586342482 | Declaration of Independence | written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 Document that asserted that we were free and independent. Signed by our founding fathers, notably John Hancock | |
| 586342483 | Federalist Papers | series of essays published to sway public support of federalism | |
| 586342484 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay | Author of federalist papers | |
| 586342485 | Revolutionary War | 1775-1781; American war of independence; began as a war between Britain and US but grew into a world war. America won. | |
| 586342486 | Treaty of Paris 1783 | peace treaty ending American Revolution establishes we won, we get land to mississippi, we must restore loyalist property and repay debts to British Creditors | |
| 586342487 | Articles of Confederation | first Americans constitutions that established the United states as a loosely bound group of states under a week national Congress; replaced by Constitution 1789 | |
| 586342488 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | Decision to survey Northwest territory and divided it | |
| 586342489 | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | Determines what will be a state includes a policy of administering the Northwest territories. It includes a passage to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories. Divided land into townships | |
| 586342490 | 5000 white male voters, set up legislature, 60,000 settle in a territory and write a constitution, governors | How to be a state | |
| 586342491 | Constitutional Convention | They met to address the problems that they had front he central government that was under the Articles of Confederation. Originally met to revise articles, decided to start anew. Constitution came from this, James Madison compromises... | |
| 586342492 | Great Compromise | The compromise that established a bicameral legislature | |
| 586342493 | 3/5 compromise | the agree meant that slaves would be seen as 3/5 of a person for population reasons (South gets more House of Representatives Representatives) | |
| 586342494 | precedent | Washington set these doing something for first time | |
| 586342495 | judicial review | states that the supreme court has the final say on whether an issue is Constitutional or not | |
| 586342496 | impressment | the kidnapping of American sailors and forcing them to work on British ships | |
| 586342497 | Louisiana Purchase | Purchase of Louisiana Territory, from French $15 million from Napoleon sells it to us because he needs money and only wants Haiti. | |
| 586342498 | Lewis and Clarke Expedition | an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; traveled from St. Louis to the Columbia River (1803-1806) To pacific and back | |
| 586342499 | Tunisia, Algeria, Tripoli, Morrocco | Barbary States (Tripolitan Wars)-Jefferson | |
| 586342500 | Embargo | laws put in place to cut off trade with a nation or nations, France and British during wars with Napoleon=ineffective | |
| 586342501 | blockade | British naval blockade cut off incoming trade | |
| 586342502 | War of 1812 | second war for Independence; known as Madison's War-a war between the United States and the British Empire. Also known as the second war for independence. Ends in a draw. Treaty of Ghent | |
| 586342503 | Era of Good Feeling | we had defeated England twice, time with one political party after winning the war of 1812 | |
| 586342504 | National Bank | official bank of the US, located in New York, and created by Alexander Hamilton, threatened by Jackson, defended by Clay/Biddle | |
| 586342505 | Tariff of Abomination | called this by south, taxed imports Jackson admin. | |
| 586342506 | Industrial Revolution | Movement in 1800s where factories emerged and industry drove the economies of Europe and eventually the US, shapes northern industrial economy | |
| 586342507 | Indian Removal Act | Andrew Jackson's policy to remove the Five Civilized Tribes to lands west of Mississippi River, so Americans could have more land | |
| 586342508 | Trail of Tears | The cherokee tribe's journey to Indian Territory/Oklahoma, many died | |
| 586342509 | spoils system | the giving away of government jobs to anyone even if they are not qualified of knowing them or in exchange for a gift (Jackson) | |
| 586342510 | nullification controversy | is the argument that states rights are higher than federal rights so if their is a law that states don't like they have th right to refuse to follow it. Calhoun gets it from Virginia/Kentucky Resolutions | |
| 586342511 | Nationalism | loyalty to one's country | |
| 586342512 | sectionalism | loyalty to one's section of the country | |
| 586342513 | underground railroad | the harboring of free slaves and conveying them to Canada and freedom | |
| 586342514 | Transcendentalism | A 19th century idealist philosophy and social movement that taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity | |
| 586342515 | Seneca Falls Convention | A women's rights convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke here. | |
| 586342516 | Suffrage | the right to vote | |
| 586342517 | manifest destiny | the belief that God wants the Americans to spread the American throughout the country | |
| 586342518 | Texas | Texas declares itself independent state in 1836 and remain so till 1845 when they are annexed (mutually wanted) to the Union. | |
| 586342519 | Mexican War | Fought by America and Mexico over S. Boundary someone getting shot in between Nueces and Rio starts it, ends with Mexican Cession | |
| 586342520 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo | Treaty after Mexican War | |
| 586342521 | Temperance movement | movement to prohibit/restrict alcohol Neal S Dow, TS Arthur, National Temperance Association Fails | |
| 586342522 | Internal Improvements | railroads, roads, bridges, to aid transportation throughout US | |
| 586342523 | annexation | to add onto/ Texas Annexation 1845 | |
| 586342524 | cession | when country is forced to give up land Mexican cession 1849 | |
| 586342525 | secession | to leave the Union, South wants to do | |
| 586342526 | immigration | floods of people enter and settle country. Irish and German | |
| 586342527 | war hawks | People who called for war ex. 1812: Clay, Calhoun, Webster | |
| 586342528 | South plantation economy | cotton kingdom | |
| 586342529 | Abolitionist movement | before Civil war to bring end to spread and practice of slavery | |
| 586342530 | Women's rights movements | women same rights as men |
