Some key terms and things mentioned in the "Unfinished Nation" textbook chapter 7.
Some of the terms are ones that Patrick_Campbell385 originally did, just wanted to give him credit.
7960566584 | Judith Sargent Murray | In 1784, this woman published an essay defending the right of women to education | 0 | |
7960566585 | Decline of midwifery | The medical profession used its newfound commitment to the "scientific" method to justify expanding its control over kinds of care that have traditionally been outside its domain; this caused a decline in what? | 1 | |
7960709684 | Noah Webster | "As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country; he should lisp the praise of liberty, and of those illustrious heroes and statesmen who have wrought a revolution in her favor." This is a quote by whom? | 2 | |
7960566586 | Noah Webster | Who was the author of widely used American spellers and dictionaries? | 3 | |
7960726569 | Charles Brockden Brown | This Philadelphia writer was among the most ambitious of the growing number of writers working to create a strong American literature. | 4 | |
7960566587 | Deism | What is the theology that attracted such educated Americans such as Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, who accepted the existence of God but considered him a remote "watchmaker", who, after having created the universe, had withdrawn from direct involvement with the human race and its sins | 5 | |
7960566588 | The second great awakening | The origins of the ____________________________ lay in the efforts of conservative theologians to fight the spread of religious nationalism and of church establishments. | 6 | |
7960923677 | that individuals must readmit God and Christ into their daily lives. They must embrace a fervent, active piety, and they must reject the skeptical rationalism that threatened traditional beliefs. | What was the basic message of the Second Great Awakening? | 7 | |
7960844379 | Methodist; Baptist | What became the fastest growing denomination in the Second Great Awakening? Which denomination was almost as successful and found especially fervent following in the South? | 8 | |
7960566589 | Cane ridge | At this place in Kentucky in the summer of 1801, a group of evangelical minister's presided over the nation's first "camp meeting" and extraordinary revival that lasted several days, had approximately 25,000 people | 9 | |
7960566590 | Handsome lake | The most important revivalist among Native Americans, had a miraculous "rebirth" after years of alcoholism | 10 | |
7974784871 | Cotton gin | What invention in 1793 expanded African American slavery in the US? | 11 | |
7974796464 | Eli Whitney | Who invented the cotton gin? | 12 | |
7960566591 | Cotton gin | In 1793 Eli Whitney invented a machine that performed the arduous task of removing the seeds from short-staple cotton quickly and efficiently | 13 | |
7974831965 | tobacco | African American slavery was dwindling for a time due to the decline of ____________ production, until the invention of the cotton gin which began to expand African American slavery once again | 14 | |
7960566593 | Interchangeability | What concept did Eli Whitney help introduce that involved making machine tools that could manufacture components of the cotton gin (and later guns for the government) so that farmers could repair machines themselves? | 15 | |
7960566594 | Robert Fulton | A major advance in steam-powered transportation, the steamboat, was invented by whom? | 16 | |
7974984535 | Clermont | What was the name of Robert Fulton's steamboat, that Robert R. Livingston helped promote? | 17 | |
7975018173 | a toll road running 60 miles from Philadelphia to Lancaster, Pennsylvania | The laying of what turnpike in 1794 started the "turnpike era"? (Or more specifically, where was it?) | 18 | |
7975159380 | Horse racing | What activity/sport in America began formally in 1665 and grew in popularity over time and in its beginnings included many blacks and was prominent in Kentucky? | 19 | |
7975294196 | Secretary of Treasury, Albert Gallatin drastically reduced government spending, Jefferson scaled down the armed forces (but established the United States Military Academy at West Point) | The Jefferson administration moved deliberately to reverse the trends of of previous administrations' extravagant expenditures, what are two ways they did this? | 20 | |
7975329684 | abolish all internal taxes, leaving customs duties and the sale of western lands as the only sources of revenue for the government | What did Thomas Jefferson persuade Congress to do in 1802? | 21 | |
7975362738 | ended the payment of tribute to Tripoli and paid a substantial ransom for the release of American prisoners | In 1805, the pasha of Tripoli, unhappy with American responses to his demands, ordered the flagpole of the American consulate chopped down-a symbolic declaration of war. In 1805, Jefferson agreed to terms by which the United States ___________________________________________________ and ____________________________________________________. | 22 | |
7960566595 | Marbury vs. Madison | In which important case did the justices repudiate a relatively minor power (the power to force the delivery of commission), but asserted a vastly greater one (the power to nullify an act of congress)? | 23 | |
7960566596 | John Marshall | Who was the Chief Justice of the U.S. appointed by Adams that established the judiciary as a coequal branch of government with the executive and the legislature? | 24 | |
7960566597 | New Orleans | What city lies at the mouth of the Mississippi River? | 25 | |
7975602839 | American ships sailing the Mississippi River from depositing their cargoes in New Orleans for transfer to oceangoing vehicles. | Jefferson was alarmed when, in the fall of 1802, he learned that the Spanish intendant at New Orleans announced a new regulation that forbade what? | 26 | |
7960566598 | Lewis and Clark | The two important leaders that explored the west | 27 | |
7975642444 | April 30, 1803 | When was the Louisiana Purchase signed, which granted to America all of the Louisiana territory for the sum of 80 million francs ($15 million)? | 28 | |
7975665597 | No | Were the boundaries of the Louisiana purchase clearly defined? | 29 | |
7975682181 | March 4, 1801 - March 4, 1809 (election of 1800 through to election of 1808) | What were the years of Thomas Jefferson's presidency? | 30 | |
7960566599 | secession | In response to Jefferson's buying of the Louisiana Purchase, the most extreme federalists, the Essex Junto, concluded that the only recourse for New England was what? | 31 | |
7980505629 | Burr | Aarón Burr challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel after Hamilton won the election for governor of New York in 1804. Who won? | 32 | |
7960566600 | Chesapeake-leopard incident | What was the famous impressment incident in which the British ship Leopard hailed American ship Chesapeake, and when the American commander James Barron refused to allow the British to search the ship, the Leopard opened fire. Barron had to surrender and 4 Americans were dragged off. | 33 | |
7960566601 | Embargo act | Act by Jefferson that prohibited all exports from american ports | 34 | |
7980671741 | "Peaceable Coercion" | What did Jefferson refer to the embargo act as? | 35 | |
7960566602 | William Henry Harrison | Man who was largely responsible for the passage in 1800 of the so-called Harrison land law, which enabled white settlers to acquire farms from the public domain on much easier terms than before | 36 | |
7960566603 | Assimilation Proposal | Jefferson offered the Indians a choice: they could convert them selves into settled farmers and become a part of white society, or they would migrate west of the Mississippi. This choice was called the _____________ _____________. | 37 | |
7960566604 | Tenskwatawa | Who was a charismatic religious leader and a orator known as "the prophet" who has experienced in a mystical awakening in the process of recovering from alcoholism? | 38 | |
7960566605 | The Tecumseh confederacy | Beginning in 1809 the brother of Tenskwatawa set out to unite all the tribes of the Mississippi Valley into what became known as the ______________________ ______________________. | 39 | |
7960566606 | Battle of Tippacanoe | Governor Harrison saw a chance to destroy the growing influence of the two Indian leaders, with one thousand soldiers he camped near Prophetstown. On November 7, 1811 he provoked an armed conflict that became labeled/known as the battle of _______________. | 40 | |
7981335579 | War Hawks | The name of s group of determined, young congressman who desired War to annex all of Florida to the United States | 41 | |
7981335580 | Battle of the Thames; William Henry Harrison; October 5, 1813 | What battle resulted in the death of Tecumseh? Who was the American's leader and when was it? | 42 | |
7989038248 | August 24, 1814 | A British armada sailed up the Patuxent River from Chesapeake Bay and landed an army that marched to nearby Bladensburg, on the outskirts of Washington, where it dispersed a poorly trained force of American militiamen. On what date did the British troops then enter Washington and set several public buildings, including the White house, on fire. | 43 | |
7989058237 | Fort McHenry | Francis Scott key wrote the Star Spangled Banner in the night while he witnessed the bombing of what fort? | 44 | |
7989074014 | Battle of New Orleans | What battle did Andrew Jackson fight (and win) several weeks after the war of 1812 officially ended? | 45 | |
7989104524 | Daniel Webster | Federal opposition to both the war (of 1812) and the Republicans was led by a young congressman from new Hampshire named __________ ____________. | 46 | |
7989157854 | Hartford, Connecticut (This was known as the Hartford Convention) | Delegates from the New England states met in what city to discuss their grievances against the Madison administration, hinting at secession and reasserting the right to nullification and proposed seven amendments to the Constitution to protect New England from the growing influence of the South and of the West | 47 | |
7989203626 | Christmas Eve, 1814. | The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the fighting between America and England/Great Britain in the War of 1812, was signed on what day? | 48 | |
7989229654 | the disarmament on the Great Lakes; leading to the the Canadian-American boundary being the longest "unguarded frontier" in the world | What did the Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817 provide for? | 49 | |
7989252943 | Tecumseh was dead. The British were gone from the Northwest. The intertribal alliance of Tecumseh and the Prophet had collapsed. The end of the war spurred a new white movement westward, the Native Americans were less able than ever to defend their land | What were reasons that the conflict between Britain and America in the War of 1812 was disastrous for Native Americans? | 50 |