| A | B |
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| New England government? | the town meeting |
| 1619-the arrival of slaves and the 1st meeting of the House of Burgesses | Virginia |
| New England | Puritans |
| idea that the power to govern generates from the consent of the people. | Mayflower Compact |
| received large land grants from the King of England | cavaliers |
| The first legislative body in American history | house of burgesses |
| first permanent English settlement | Jamestown |
| ethnically diverse society | Middle colonies |
| Roger Williams founded | Rhode Island |
| Origionally settled New York | Dutch |
| journey enslaved Africans took | Middle Passage |
| Main crop of Jamestown | Tobacco |
| New England Economy | shipping and fishing |
| urged Americans to declare their independence. | Common Sense |
| city upon a hill | Massachusetts Bay colony |
| the right of the people to alter or a abolish a government | Social contract theory |
| influenced Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine | John Locke |
| Battle of Saratoga | convinced the French government to formally recognize the United States |
| banned Settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains | the Proclamation of 1763. |
| Treaty of Paris of 1763 | British gained Florida and Canada |
| written specifically to encourage ratification of the Constitution | Federalist Papers |
| Bostonians hurled ice, rocks, and lumber at British soldier | Boston Massacre |
| key objections to the proposed Constitution | absence of a bill of right |
| The closing of Boston harbor. | Coercive Acts |
| writ of assistance | llowed the British to ransack a colonial merchant’s house |
| a method of counting slaves | The Three-Fifths Compromise |
| author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington | Yorktown |
| protection against double jeopardy | Bill of Rights |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | suppress any possible shift of power from the Federalists to the Republican Party |
| Era of Good Feelings | peaceful negotiations between Americans and English after the War of 1812 |
| The Democratic-Republicans were supported by | farmers, artisans, and frontier settlers in the South |
| George Washington's farewell address | Political parties are dangerous |
| largely responsible for increasing the power of the federal government | John Marshall |
| explored the Louisiana Purchase | Lewis and Clark |
| Caused the slavery increased in the southern states | the cotton gin |
| that dissent could be expressed only through the constitutional system of laws and election | Whiskey Rebellion |
| Embargo Act | pressure France and England to stop harassing American shipping without using military force. |
| major cause of the War of 1812 | British impressment |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | state cannot tax an agency of the federal governmen |
| The Monroe Doctrine | warned European powers not to interfere with the affairs of the the Western Hemisphere |
| Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions | That states could and should decide when Congress was passing unconstitutional laws |
| The XYZ Affair | the French governnent’s demand for a bribe as the price for negotiations |
| Seneca Falls | equal rights for women |
| the Missouri Compromise | Maine was admitted as a free state |
| publisher of the Liberator | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | exposed more Americans to the inhumane treatment of slaves |
| manifest destiny | the U.S. would eventually and inevitably come into possession of the entire continent. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | gained California north to San Francisco and Texas south to the Nueces River |
| criticism of President Andrew Jackson’s spoils system | rewarded party loyalists with public jobs |
| Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner caused | southern plantation owners to tighten reigns on slaves |
| Jacksonian Democracy | political participation by the common man should be increased |
| trail of tears | the forced removal of Cherokees from their lands east of the Mississippi to the new Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma |
| The Liberator promoted | the immediate abolition of slavery |
| linked New York City to the Ohio River area | Erie Canal |
| The Alamo, Goliad, and the Battle of San Jacinto River | war for Texas independence |
| corrupt bargain | term for the negotiations that led Henry Clay to throw his support behind John Quincy Adams in the election of 1824 |
| popular sovereignty | allowed residents of a territory to decide whether or not to permit slavery |
| the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War | Wilmot Proviso |
| Brigham Young | led the Mormons to their settlement near Great Salt Lake in Utah |
| How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act resolve the issue of slavery in those areas | Popular sovereignty would determine whether slavery would be permitted in the territories |
| Compromise in 1850 | allowing California to enter the Union as a Free State,popular sovereignty in western territories,banning slave trading (but not slavery) in Washington, D.C. |
| Fort Sumter | where the Civil War began |
| prominent black abolitionist | Frederick Douglass |
| total warfare in Georgia | General Shermann |
| Gave House divided speech | Abraham Lincoln |
| all slaves living in areas still in rebellion | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gettysburg Address | That states are part of a Union |
