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| 275798926 | What was the purpose of the Headright system | To bring new workers to the colony, increas population in Jamestown. | |
| 275798927 | What did the Puritans believe about their religion | They believed their religion was the best and it should be the main religion of the colonies | |
| 275798928 | Why did English settlers and Native Americans not get along | They had different cultures and major disputes over land | |
| 275798929 | What was the halfway covenant and why was it important | It allowed children of other religions to become Puritan members and have political rights, these people weren't fully comitted | |
| 275798930 | What were important religions in different colonies | Catholics in Maryland, Puritans North of Chesapeke area, Protestants and Quakers | |
| 275798931 | What did Anne Hutchinson believe and teach | She thought that the chosen people lied about recieving visions from God about presdestination. | |
| 275798932 | What was the purpose of the British policy of mercantilism | So the Brtish could get all the specie. | |
| 275798933 | What functions did colonial American cities have | To export raw materials mainly to England. | |
| 275798934 | Why did slavery grow in the Chesapeake region | The land there was rich, fertile, and perfect for growing cash crops, so the more land they had the more money they could make and the more people they needed to work, and the cheapest way to do this was to use slaves. | |
| 278023139 | What was the significance of Bacon's Rebellion | Started the first want for slaves as workers and caused people to move away from indentured servitude | |
| 278023140 | Why was Roger williams banished from Massachusetts | He argued that the Massachusetts church should abandon all alligience to the church of England and he said that the land they were on really belonged to the indians | |
| 278023141 | Why did America developed religious toleration | They needed to being all people to the colonies so they could develop | |
| 278023142 | What was happening with indentured servants in the 17th Century | It was just beginning | |
| 278023143 | What was the Salem Witch trials and who was the main group involved | The Salem Witch Trials were when people began accusing others of being witches, and many times the accused were killed, The main group of people involved was the Puritans. | |
| 278023144 | First Great Amakening | Didn't last long, and caused religons to begin to start to think and feel their religions | |
| 278023145 | Non-English immigrants to colonial america. | Mainly indentured seervants, Groups that were coming were Scotch-Irish (lived on the frontiers) Germans (created communities) and the Dutch (lived north in New York area) | |
| 278023146 | What was the policy of Salutary Neglect | It was a policy that created the middle class, and caused internal thinking and self reliance | |
| 278023147 | What was the Proclamation of 1763 | The British created a boarder on the Appalachains, which the colonists could not migrate west of. It was created to keep the peace between Colonists and Indians, for fear a major conflict could put the British in deeper debt. | |
| 278023148 | Why did Britain decide to tax the colonists after the French and Indian War | The were in great debt, very poor, and needed the money | |
| 278023149 | Were the colonists against the stamp act | YES, there were continuous revolts, everyone was very opposed, and the had grievance meetings to decide how they should deal with this. | |
| 278023150 | What was the concept of virtual representation | The British represented the colonies, not te colonies themselves | |
| 278023151 | What was Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union | It said everyone should work together | |
| 278023152 | What was the purpose of colonial Commitees of Correspondance | To Publicize the grievences against England | |
| 278058351 | Why was Common Sense such an important work | It pointed out why would they want to stay loyal to the British when they are so brutal to them. | |
| 278058352 | The Battles of Lexington and Concord | The battles of Lexington and Concord initiated the Revolutionary War between the American colonists and the British. British governor Thomas Gage sent troops to Concord to stop the colonists who were loading arms. The next day, on April 19, 1775, the first shots were fired in Lexington, starting the war. The battles resulted in a British retreat to Boston | |
| 278058353 | What is contained in the Declaration of Independence | The statement the America is a free country from England | |
| 278058354 | How did womans lives change as a result of the Revolution | Started the Cult of Domesticity, Woman stayed home more often to take care of children. | |
| 278058355 | Why was the Battle of Saratoga important | It was a victory for America and it showed the French that America had a chance to win, so the French gave their support to America | |
| 278058356 | How did America pay for the Revolution | The French paid for most of it, but America sold bonds to try to raise money for it | |
| 278058357 | What were the terms of the treaty of Paris | British promised removal of troops from American soil, however, this did not happen because America had no force or power to make them completely leave, so the British remained at ports near the Great Lakes | |
| 278058358 | What was the importance of the 1787 Northwest Ordinance | It created land distribution system, created organized regions, and gave regions a way to become states | |
| 278058359 | Wat were the weaknesses of the Article of Confederation | Strong government was not present | |
| 278058360 | What compromises occured at the Constitutonal convention | 2 house legislature, lower house would be based on population with slaves counting as 3/5 of a person and upper house even distribution | |
| 278058361 | Adding western states added to the Union | There was a great debate over whether to make them free or slave states. | |
| 278058362 | What is contained in the Constitution | How the nation should be run | |
| 278058363 | What was the importance of Marbury vs Madison | "Midnight Appointments" Marbury was appointed and wanted his papers and Madison would not give them to him, it sparked the roll for Nationalism in the Supreme Court | |
| 278058364 | What did George Washinton's Farewell address say | It said political parties were a bad idea | |
| 278058365 | What was Alexander Hamilton's vision for the American government | He wanted a National bank, upper class, and tax on whiskey | |
| 278058366 | The Second Great Awakening | Was longer than the First Great Awakening, and started many reforms | |
| 278058367 | What was the imprtance of Eli Whitney's inventions | Created interchangable parts, and lead to larger plantations and more slaves | |
| 278058368 | Why was Thomas Jefferson reluctant to make the Louisiana Purchase | He didn't think it was in the Constitution | |
| 278058369 | What was the imprtance of Tecumseh | He wanted to unite all the Indian tribes to work together to fight the colonies for their land back | |
| 278058370 | What was the 1807 Embargo Act | Said no trade what so ever, it was very hated | |
| 278058371 | What happened at the 1814 Hartford Convention | The New England states talked about how they hated the war and their hate was so strong they talkd about suceeding from the Union | |
| 278058372 | What was the importance of the Missouri Compromise | It created the 36 30 line which said slavery was not allowed north of this line in western territories | |
| 278058373 | Why is Monroe's presidency called the era of good feeling | This was because nothing bad happened, there were no political parties or debates, and economics were good | |
| 278058374 | What was te Monroe Doctrine | It officially declared all of America was no longer allowed to be colonized on. | |
| 278058375 | What was the trend of John Marshall's supreme court | NATIONALISM!!! | |
| 278060382 | Why did Andrew Jackson win a lanside victory in 1828 | He was a common man, he was a war hero, and he wanted to kill indians. | |
| 278060383 | How did voting grow during the Jacksonian period | ... | |
| 278060384 | What was the doctrine of nullification | It said states had the right to decide if they wanted to follow a law or not. | |
| 278060385 | Why did Jackson oppose the Second Bank of the United States | ... | |
| 278060386 | What did the Whig Party believe | ... | |
| 278606810 | What immigrants began to move to America from 1820-1840 | The Irish and Germans began to move, they moved mainly to the north, the Irish worked in factories | |
| 278606811 | What were the beliefs of the Know-Nothing Party | ... | |
| 278606812 | What transportation advances occured before the Civil War | Used canals but gradually moved to trains | |
| 278606813 | How did the railroad grow before the Civil War | It had grown mainly in the North, very rarely in the South | |
| 278606814 | What inventions lead to the growth of industries | Interchangable parts, the cotton gin | |
| 278606815 | What was the Cult of Domesticity | Created new roles for women, in which they stayed home to take care of the children | |
| 278606816 | Why was cotton so important to the southern economy | It was the main cash crop/export of the South, it was cheap to grow, and it was readily needed | |
| 278606817 | How did the cotton economy change the population patterns in the South after 1820 | People began moving to the South because the money they could possibly make | |
| 278606818 | Why did most southern whites support slavery and the cotton plantation system | They all depended on it | |
| 278606819 | What was life like for slaves in the south | Harsh, Rough | |
| 278606820 | What major slave revolts occurred | ... | |
| 278606821 | What did Hudson River School painters paint | Scenes of nature | |
| 278606822 | What reforms movements occurred after the Second Great Awakening | Education, prisons, metal asylums, aboltionism, and feminism | |
| 278606823 | What was the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments | It stated women wanted equal rights with men | |
| 278606824 | What was the most important reform movement after the second great awakening | Abolitionism | |
| 278606825 | What were the beliefs of the free soil movement | Slavery should stay where it is but it could not expand into western territories, they belived if this was the case slavery would eventually die | |
| 278606826 | What was manifest destiny | It was a belief that God wanted the people to expand westward and possibly take over all of America | |
| 278606827 | What was the 1848 Wilmot Proviso | It states no slavery was allowed in the territories acquired from Mexico, It passed in the House but failed in the Senate | |
| 278617523 | What was the Compromise of 1850 | It said California would enter the Uniion as a free state, also said for stronger slave codes in the North | |
| 278617524 | Slavery and the Western settlement of the Western Territories | Popular Soverenty | |
| 278617525 | What was the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act | Started Bloody Nebraska and removed the Missouri Compromise | |
| 278617526 | What was the Republican Party's views on slavery | They did not like it and did not want it | |
| 278617527 | What was the Dred Scott decision | It said Dred Scott was not considered free, it basically said there is no place in the US where African Americans are free (not a place where slavery does not/cannot exist), it ws a southern win for slavery | |
| 278617528 | What were the beliefs of Abraham Lincoln | He was against slavery, and thought it was morally wrong, but he was not an abolitionist | |
| 278617529 | Why did Lincoln win the election of 1860 | He had the majority of the popular vote, he was a common man and had the votes of the north which was a majority of the population | |
| 278617530 | What was president Buchanan's beliefs about secession | He said states do not have the right to seceed, but the goverenment does not have the right to stop them | |
| 278617531 | Who were the African American soldiers in the Civil War (aka Glory) | 54th Massachusetts Regiment |
