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history 103 exam 2
Key terms from Ch. 5-10
Question | Answer |
---|---|
stamp act(date) | 1765 |
Boston Tea Party(Date) | December 16,1773 |
Coercive Acts (date) | June 1, 1774 |
Proclamation Line(date) | 1763 |
Sons of Liberty (date) | 1765 |
Battles of Lexington and Concord (date) | April 18, 1775 |
Olive Branch Petition (Date) | July 5, 1775 |
Declaration of Independence (Date) | July 4, 1776 |
Peace of Paris (Date) | 1783 |
republicanism (date) | n/a |
Articles of Confederation (date) | 1781-1788 |
Shay's Rebellion (date) | 1786-1787 |
Northwest Ordinance (date) | 1787 |
Great Compromise (date) | 1787 |
Federalists (date) | 1787 |
Bill of Rights (date) | 1791 |
(Jeffersonian) Republican (date) | 1792 |
Whiskey Rebellion (date) | 1794 |
Treaty of Greenville (date) | 1795 |
Alien and Sedition Acts (date) | 1798 |
Louisiana Purchase (date) | 1803 |
Second Bank of the United States (date) | 1816 |
Missouri Compromise (date) | 1820 |
Monroe Doctrine (date) | 1823 |
Pan Indian Resistance Movement (date) | Late 18th/early 19th |
Second Great Awakening (date) | 1st half of 1800s |
Indian Removal Act (date) | 1830 |
Black Hawk's War (date) | 1832 |
Whig Party (Date) | Mid 1830s |
Trail of Tears (date) | 1838 |
Proclamation Line | Royal Proclamation limited British settlements to the eastern side of the Appalachian mountains |
Sons of Liberty | Secret orgainizations in colonies to oppose Stamp Act |
Boston Tea Party | Bostonians disguised as Indians, destroyed 342 chests of imported tea belonging to British East India Co. in order to prevent duty on it |
Intolerable Acts | American term for Coercive acts and Quebec Act |
Stamp Act | raise revenue in America by requiring taxed, stamped paper |
Battles of Lexington and Concord | The first of two battles of the American Revolution which resulted in a total of 273 British fatalities and 100 American fatalities |
Olive Branch Petition | Petition adopted by the second continental congress as last effort of peace that avowed America's loyalty to George III and requested he protect them from further aggressions |
Declaration of Independence | Document by which the second continental congress announced and justified its decision to renounce the colonies' allegiance to British government |
Shay's Rebellion | An armed movement of debt ridden farmers in western Massachusetts in the winter of 86-87. The Rebellion created a crisis atomosphere |
Northwest Ordinance | Legislation that prohibited slaver in the northwest territories and provided the model for the incorporation of future territories into the union as coequal states |
Articles of Confederation | Written document setting up the loose confederation of states that comprised the first national government of the US |
Federalists | Supporters of ratification of Constitution |
Great Compromise | Plan proposed at constitutional convention for creating a national bicameral legislature, all states having equal representation in senate and proportionally represented in the House. |
Bill of Rights | A written summary of inalienable rights and liberties |
Republican (Jeffersonian) | party headed by Thomas Jefferson that formed in opposition to the financial and diplomatic policies of the Federalist party; favored limiting the powers of the national government and placing the interests of farmers over those of financial & commercial |
Treaty of Greenville | Treaty in which Native Americans in the Old Northwest were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio to the US |
Whiskey Rebellion | Armed uprising in 1794 by farmers in western PA who attempted to prevent the collection of the excise tax on whiskey |
Alien and Sedition acts | Collective name given to four acts passed by Congress in 1798 that curtailed freedom of speech and the liberty of foreigners resident in the US |
Louisiana Purchase | US purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803 for $15 million |
Pan-Indian resistance movement | Movement calling for the political and cultural unification of Indian tribes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries |
Second Bank of the United States | A national bank chartered by Congress in 1816 with extensive regulatory powers over currency and credit |
Monroe Doctrine | declaration to Congress in 1816 that the Americas "are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power." |
Missouri Compromise | Sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and Louisiana Purchase Territory |
Second Great Awakening | religious revivals in large public areas....Methodists and Baptists |
Indian Removal Act | Granted President the authority to use force to remove and resettle eastern Indians in the west |
Black Hawk's War | Federal Troops and Illinois militia defeated Black Hawk's Sauk and Fox Indians |
Whig Party | Political Party opposing Jacksonian Democrats--- promoted economic growth by favoring strong national government |
Trail of Tears | forced Cherokee Indians from Georgia homelands to Western Indian Territory...thousands died along the way |