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6/2 Aim: What do you need to know for the final? Do Now: Write 2 multiple choice questions with 4 possible answers that may be on exam next week
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Mountain that run along the Pacific Coast
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Sierra Nevada
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Mountains farthest east near Atlantic Coast
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Appalachian Mountains
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Land surrounded by water on 3 sides
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peninsula
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Land that blocked settlement west
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Rocky Mountains
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- Holy wars between Christians and Muslims over the city of Jerusalem - one of the causes of the age of exploration (inspired Europeans to learn again…)
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crusades
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Early theory about how people arrived in North America during the Ice Age over the Bering sea
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Land Bridge Theory
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Seafaring people from Scandinavia believed to have reached the Americas before Columbus
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Vikings
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People who spread religion
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missionaries
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3 main reasons for exploration
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God, gold and glory
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Main reason Columbus explored “new world”
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Sought all water route to Asia for spice trade
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Exchange of foods, plants, animals and diseases after exploration
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Columbian Exchange
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Main reason people “settled” in the new world
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Fertile land, more opportunities, better life
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- 1 st act of democracy in the Americas - Agreement of 41 men on how to govern the Plymouth Colony
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Mayflower Compact
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People that worked in America for 5 – 7 yrs to pay people back for their help paying for their voyage to America
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Indentured Servants
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Colonies with small farms and fishing villages
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New England Colonies
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Colonies nicknamed “the breadbasket” colonies
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Middle colonies
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Colonies that focused on large plantations for its economy
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Southern colonies
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Founder of Georgia
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James Ogelthorpe
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Founded Rhode Island and kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Roger Williams
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Banished from the Mass. Bay Colony for criticizing the church and saying god spoke directly to her
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Anne Hutchinson
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War between Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley
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French and Indian War
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First plan to unite 13 colonies that failed…..by Benjamin Franklin
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Albany Plan of Union
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Treaty that ended the French and Indian War
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Treaty of Paris (1763)
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Reasons for heavy taxation of colonists
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Debt from French and Indian War
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Economic policy where colonies exist for the benefit of the mother country Raw materials sent to mother country in exchange for manufactured goods
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mercantilism
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British law-making body
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Parliament
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Main Argument of colonists
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No taxation without representation
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Colonists who supported independence from Britain
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Patriots
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Colonists who remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolution
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Loyalists
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Another name for British soldiers during the American Revolution
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Redcoats
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As a result of the victory at ______________, France and Spain helped the colonists during the American Revolution.
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Battle of Saratoga
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Restricted trade among the colonists – they could only trade with England – England main market of goods
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Navigation Acts
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List of complaints against King George III and justified reasons for independence
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Declaration of Independence
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Led to Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts – Boston harbor was closed etc.
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Boston Tea Party
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First constitution 1781 - 1787
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Articles of Confederation
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Showed weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
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Shay’s Rebellion
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Major weakness of the Articles of Confederation
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States had more power than national government – weak central government
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Showed strength of national government
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Whiskey Rebellion
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Federal and state governments “share” power - all powers not given to the federal government are “reserved” to the states
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Federalism
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All powers given to our government NOT STATED in the constitution
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Implied Powers (unwritten constitution)
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Executive, Legislative and Judicial
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Separation of Powers
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When the Supreme Court declares laws constitutional or not
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Judicial Review
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Name of supreme court case that supported Judicial Review
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Marbury vs. Madison
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Judicial Review is an example of……
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Checks and balances
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Wrote Neutrality Proclamation
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George Washington
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- Expelled foreigners from country - forbid Americans from criticizing the government
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Alien and Sedition Acts (John Adams)
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Purchased the Louisiana Territory and sent Louis and Clark to explore it….
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Thomas Jefferson
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Kidnapping of American sailors and forcing them to work on their ships
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Impressment
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Stopped trade with all nations
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Embargo Act
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Stopped trade with only Britain and France
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Non-intercourse Act
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A threat to all European powers to stay out of the western hemisphere or else…..
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Monroe Doctrine
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Period of strong nationalism and unity for nation after War of 1812 (second war for independence)
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Era of Good Feeling
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President of the “common man”
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Andrew Jackson
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Firing government workers and replacing them with your supporters
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Spoils system
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Canceling a law
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Nullification or nullify
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a “city” area
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Urban area
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A “country” area (outside a city)
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Rural area
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to break away from a country
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secede
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- Artificial waterway that connected the Great Lakes to NYC - lowered price of goods and main reason for the development of NYC
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Erie Canal
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-Belief that the US had a right to all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean - The US had a right to all of North America
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Manifest Destiny
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Tax on imports
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tariff
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Reason people opposed annexing Texas
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Texans used slave labor
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What did the US buy after buying the Louisiana Territory?
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Florida from Spain
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Reason “Remember the Alamo” was an important saying….
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It motivated Texans to fight hard for Texas independence
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Belief that the US had a godly right to all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean
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Nickname for people participating in the California Gold Rush
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49er’s
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Admitted Maine into country as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
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Admitted California as a free state
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Compromise of 1850
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Repealed Missouri Compromise of 1820
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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- Supreme Court Case that allowed slavery in ALL territories - repealed Missouri Compromise and legalized Fugitive Slave Law
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Dred Scott case
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- Gave people the right to vote to decide if they would be a slave or free territory - supported in the Compromise of 1850 and Kansas Nebraska Act
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Popular sovereignty
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People who wanted slavery to end…. Ex. Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas and John Brown
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Abolitionists
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- Network of abolitionist homes that helped runaway slaves reach the North and Canada - led by Harriet Tubman
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Underground Railroad
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Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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- Freed all slaves in the rebelling states (Confederacy) in 1863) - changed goal of Union during the civil war to end slavery
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Restricted African American freedoms during Reconstruction
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Black Codes
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Abolished slavery in the U.S.
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13 th Amendment
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Gave equality to all in the U.S.
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14 th Amendment
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Gave all men the right to vote
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15 th Amendment
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Stopped African American from gaining rights under the 15 th Amendment
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Literacy tests, poll taxes and Grandfather Clause
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Set up laws in the South that supported segregation (separating races)
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Jim Crow Laws
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Group of people that conflicted with President Johnson and believed in immediate equality of races as well as punishing the former Confederate states after the Civil War
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Radical Republicans
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