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| Seven Years War | France was removed from North America; Great Britain was in massive debt, began to consolidate control over colonies - taxes; many colonists resisted |
| Common Sense | Written by T-Paine, and Enlightenment thinker. Urged that it was "Common Sense" that colonies should break away from Great Britain |
| Declaration of Independence | Inspired by Common Sense and Enlightenment ideals; inspired France and countries in Latin America to experience revolutions |
| Northwest Ordinance | Passed under Articles - banned slavery in NW territory (OH, MI, IN, etc.); created a process for admitting new states (60,000 inhabitants) |
| Articles of Confederation | First governing document of US - created a WEAK central government; issues with trade - different currencies in each state, tariffs on goods traded between states |
| U.S. Constitution | Replaced the Articles - series of compromises (Great, 3/5, Slave Trade); provided limits on federal power (separation of powers); did not address problems of slavery |
| Federalists | supported strong central government and the Constitution; Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, tended to be merchants or business people. |
| Anti-Federalists (Democratic Republicans) | supported stong state governments, tended to be agriculturally focused, liked Articles of Confederation. |
| Washington's Farewell Address | Warned of entangling foreign alliances and political parties; helped inspire foreign policy until after WWII |
| Republican motherhood | Expectation that women would instill Republican values in children and be active in families; helped increase education for women |
| Bill of Rights | Added AFTER the Constitutional Convention; created to gain support of anti-Federalists; guaranteed rights of individuals |
| Marbury v. Madison | The primacy of the judiciary in determining the meaning of the Constitution (think judicial review)) and giving federal laws power over state governments (think Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland) |
| Louisiana Purchase | doubled the size of the United States, President Jefferson expands power of presidency, gained from France. |
| Whigs | Party formed b/c of dislike of Andrew Jackson; Role and powers of the federal government, National Bank, tariffs, federally funded internal improvements (Think Henry Clay's American System) |
| Second Great Awakening | Led to moral and social reforms (think abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, etc.) |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Women's Rights convention that sought greater equality (attended by men too such as Frederick Douglass) |
| Market Revolution | Textile machinery (spinning jenny), steam engines, interchangeable parts (Eli Whitney), telegraph, and agricultural inventions (cotton gin - Whitney again) - Goods were increasingly made outside the home. Women and men began working in factories. |
| American System | Henry Clay’s plan to unify the American economy. Focused on a 2nd BUS, Internal Improvements, and Tariffs. The north and Midwest benefited more than the south. |
| Monroe Doctrine | President Monroe's message to Europe to NOT colonize any new land in Latin America. The US would stay out of European affairs. |
| Missouri Compromise | 3 parts: Maine was a free state, Missouri was a slave state, everything above 36 30 latitude line would be free, everything below would be slave. This applied to ONLY the Louisiana Purchase. Later overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Cult of Domesticity | Belief that middle-class women's role is to run the home and raise children; pious, submissive, pure |
| Transportation Revolution | Growth of roads, then canals, then railroads - connecting regions of U.S. together; raw materials to factories & finished goods back to other regions |
| Nativism in mid 1800s | Wave of immigration from North & Western Europe leads to many Americans resisting immigrants; Know Nothing Party (American Party) |
