What were the dominant themes right after the Revolutionary War?
Federal vs. states' rights
Sectionalism - northern vs. southern
Westward expansion
Relocating the Natives
Which made a stronger federal government?
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
Which came first?
The Articles of Confederation was effective
The Constitution replaced revised( replaced, revised ) The Articles of Confederation
The Great Compromise (in the Constitution) established
A Bicameral body (two houses of congress)
The 3 branches of government
Election via the electoral college
The Great Compromise (in the Constitution) established that the number of representatives each state got in the House was ❌, and the number of senators each state got in the Senate was ❌.
The three-fifths compromise
Natives counted as three-fifths of a person for a state's population
Slaves counted as three-fifths of a person for a state's population
Natives had a right to keep three-fifths of their land
The Constitution was mostly written by
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Adolf Hitler
Bugs Bunny
The "necessary and proper clause" of the Constitution
Allowed the federal government some wiggle room to assume powers not specifically given to it
Made slavery legal only where it was necessary for the economy
Gave the president the ability to use executive orders when necessary
Why didn't Anti-Federalists like the Constitution?
It didn't include a bill of rights
It gave a lot more power to the central government
It gave a lot more power to the state governments
They thought it would lead to more taxation without representation
The Bill of Rights added which of these to the Constitution?
Freedom of speech and press
Freedom of religion
The right of 'Mericans to bear arms
The right to trial by jury
The right of land-owning male citizens to vote
The right to be an idiot
The first two-party system (which came about after George Washington) was
Democratic Party and Republican Party
Democratic Party and Whig Party
Federalist Party and Anti-Federalist Party
Federalist Party and Republican Party
❌ constructionism said the federal government could do anything not prohibited by the Constitution, and ❌ constructionism said the federal government could only do what was necessary to carry out its specific responsibilities.
Alexander Hamilton
Was a broad constructionist
Was a strict constructionist
Supported industrialization
Played a major role in establishing the national bank
Supported the agrarian dream
Was a Republican
Was a Federalist
Not long after the Revolutionary War, Britain started
Impressing captured American sailors into the British navy
Holding on to their forts west of the colonies
Taking American slaves back to Britain with them
Supporting Mexico against the U.S.
Encouraging Canadian raids into New York
After the revolution, who negotiated a treaty with Britain to stop them from impressing American sailors, and convince them to abandon their forts west of the colonies?
John Jay
John Hancock
John Paul Jones
Prince John the phony king of England
The second president was
The third president was
Andrew Jackson
Which president had good relations with France?
Which president had good relations with Britain?
When relations with France were not good, the French delegates "X, Y, and Z" did what?
Refused to negotiate unless a $250,000 bribe was paid
Refused to sell the Louisiana Territory
Publicly mocked John Adams
The Alien and Sedition acts did what?
Extended the term a foreigner had to live in the U.S. before they could get citizenship
Authorized deporting illegal immigrants
Authorized imprisonment or fines for conspiracy
Temporarily barred immigrants from Britain
Prevented immigrants from working high-skill jobs
Who supported an embargo against trading with Britain not long before the war of 1812?
Who was the winning general of the Battle of New Orleans and later became president?
Ulysses S. Grant
Batman
James Monroe
Jefferson was generally a ❌ constructionist, but using federal funds for Lewis and Clark's exploration made him look more like a ❌ constructionist.
The Monroe Doctrine
Said America and Europe should not interfere in each other's hemispheres
Promised Native Americans land further west, and started relocating them
Sent a message to Mexico not to interfere with Texas gaining its independence
One change that led to the industrial revolution: ❌ started to be used more instead of ❌
Immigrants were a source of cheap, unskilled, labor
Changes leading to the industrial revolution included
A market economy
Nationalism
Immigrants
Technological innovation
Credit was more available
Limited liability laws
Urbanization
Slave labor
Increased trade with Canada and Mexico
Batmobiles were in higher demand
The Declaration of Sentiments
Was modeled on the Declaration of Independence
Was modeled on the Bill of Rights
Was written by women demanding their rights
Was written by women showing how sentimental and emotional they were
Included a list of grievances
Included proposed solutions to problems
Was issued at the Seneca Falls Conference
Was issued at an 1848 temperance conference
Who invented the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
Robert Hudson
Samuel de Champlain
Who invented the telegraph?
Samual Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
Samual Smiles
Eli Whitney
A flamenco dancer
The North South( North, South ) had more railroads
Reasons for increased economic stratification
Railroad and factory owners accumulated unprecedented wealth
Urbanization increased rapidly
Poor, especially immigrants, lived in slums
Plantation owners accumulated unprecedented wealth
The middle class decreased rapidly
The second two-party system (which developed during westward expansion in the 1800s)
Federalist Party and Whig Party
The Democratic Party was led by
Henry Clay
Millard Filmore
Came from a rich background
Did not come from money
Was popular among the poor
Was popular among Native Americans
Was popular among rich aristocrats
The Whig Party was led by
James Buchanan
The crazy man in the pink wig
The government was not actively involved in westward expansion
Don't never use none of those nonsensical triple negatives
The West was settled because of
Opportunity
Ambition
Immigration
The West was won by
Annexation
War
Purchase
Reverse Polish Notation
When Texas was annexed by the U.S...
It was peaceful
Most people there were Americans
Most people there were Mexicans
It immediately started war
The Treaty of ❌ ended the war with Mexico and established the Rio Grande as the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
Later, the ❌ purchase added southern Arizona and completed the continental United States.
Andrew Jackson supported moving the Native Americans further west
The Trail of Tears
Started under Andrew Jackson
Started under Martin Van Buren
Escorted Natives from Georgia to west of Arkansas
Escorted Natives from Alabama to west of Arizona
Thousands of Native Americans died on it
❌ recognized the Cherokees' right to their land, but ❌ ordered the military to escort them on the Trail of Tears.
Industrialization caused a decrease an increase( a decrease, an increase ) in the integration of buildings into the natural environment.
During industrialization: The South: ❌ The Northeast: ❌ The Midwest: ❌
In the 19th century, the role of women
Expanded
Decreased
In the 19th century, the ❌ replaced the ❌
In the 19th century
Women were idealized and charged with keeping the family pure
Children were treated as children, not small adults
Children were treated as small adults
Many women worked in factories and were exposed to unsavory elements
Some single women found jobs
as teachers
in textile factories, such as Lowell Mills
as cleaners
as sales clerks
Many married middle-class women
Spread Christian reform
Felt a responsibility to keep America on a morally true course
Found jobs in factories
Became small land-owners
The Second Great Awakening
Was led by Charles Finney
Was led by Jonathan Edwards
Appealed to individuals to be the best Christians they could be
Appealed to emotion
Appealed to preachers to be responsible for the salvation of their whole congregation
In workingmen societies, workers started to identify with ❌ instead of with ❌.
Workingmen societies tried to maintain the status quo in the workplace.
The temperance movement
Was connected to the Second Great Awakening
Sought to abolish the production and consumption of alcohol
Was connected to the abolition movement
19th century reform movements included
Temperance
Abolition
Women's rights
Health and sanitation
Workplace reform
Public education
Prison and mental health
Trade regulation
Environmental regulation
The common school movement was started by
Horace Mann
Robert Frost
Noah Webster
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Were born in the South
Were born in the North
Were abolitionists
Saw parallels between slaves and women
After the Seneca Falls Conference, ❌ took the spotlight away from ❌ for awhile.
Men's abolition groups and women's abolition groups were usually united
People from ❌ didn't really want slavery, but people from ❌ jumped the border and voted
What happened during the riots after the Kansas-Nebraska act?
John Brown and his sons started killing people
Kansas got the nickname "Bleeding Kansas"
Senator Charles Sumner's nephew attacked him in congress
Admission of Kansas and Nebraska as states was delayed
Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom?
He had lived in a free state
He said his master had given him his freedom right before he died
He had been free and then wrongfully recaptured
On the Dred Scott case, chief justice Taney said
Once a slave, always a slave
Slaves could, in some cases, gain their freedom
Only free blacks could ever be citizens
Blacks, slave or free, could never be citizens
The government could bar slavery in some states
The government could not bar slavery anywhere
Abraham Lincoln was the first candidate for the
Republican Party
Whig Party
Northern Democratic Party
New Constitution Party
Stephen Douglas
Southern Democratic Party
Ran against Lincoln in 1860
Wanted to protect slavery
Wanted popular sovereignty
Soon after Lincoln was elected, the entire deep South seceded from the union
Who was named president of the confederate states?
Jefferson Davis
John Breckenridge
Joseph Stalin
Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, the border states, were slave free( slave, free ) states and were in the union confederacy( union, confederacy ).
The battle at Fort Sumter Charleston Gettysburg( Fort Sumter, Charleston, Gettysburg ) started the Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Freed the slaves in the southern states
Freed the slaves in the border states
Was issued by Abraham Lincoln
Was issued by Ulysses S. Grant
❌ surrendered to ❌, ending the Civil War.
The South surrendered at ❌. Lincoln was assassinated at ❌.
Andrew Johnson
Was Lincoln's VP
Was an effective leader
Punished the South harshly
Was a southern sympathizer
Pardoned Confederate officials, officers, and wealthy supporters
Re-empowered the slavocracy
Amendments Right to vote will not be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude - ❌ Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the U.S. - ❌ All persons born in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S. - ❌
The Radical Republicans
Rose up during reconstruction
Were led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
Were led by Andrew Johnson and Stephen Douglas
Kept freedmen oppressed by sharecropping
Supported true democracy and education for freedmen
Put the northern military in the South to make them adhere to the rules
Wouldn't let states re-enter the Union unless they followed the rules
The “40 acres and a mule” idea passed and was successful
Sharecropping
Plantation owners and freedmen each got 50% of crops
Prices were fixed so freedmen never made enough to buy their own land
Groups of freedmen owned former plantations that they shared among several of them
Was effective
Almost all blacks wanted white support from Freedmen's Bureaus
Jim Crow Laws
Were designed to disenfranchise blacks
In some states, if you couldn’t read, or didn’t own property, you couldn’t vote
Some states had a poll tax - most blacks couldn’t afford it
Some states had grandfather clause - if your grandfather couldn’t vote, you couldn’t vote
In some states, KKK membership was required to vote
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