GEORGIA US HISTORY END OF COURSE TEST
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 VIRGINIA COMPANY | FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH COLONY IN AMERICA (JAMESTOWN) |
| POWHATAN | NATIVE AMERICANS WHO ENCOUNTERED A CONFLICT WITH THE JAMESTOWN SETTLERS |
| HOUSE OF BURGESSES | FIRST ELECTED LEGISLATURE IN COLONIAL AMERICA (VIRGINIA) |
| BACON'S REBELLION | POOR FARMERS REBELLING AGAINST WEALTHY LAWMAKERS. SHOWED THE AVERAGE POOR FARMER IN AMERICA WAS DIFFERENT AND DID NOT MIND STANDING UP FOR HIS RIGHTS. |
| SLAVERY | FIRST SLAVES BROUGHT TO VIRGINIA TO CULTIVATE TOBACCO |
| NEW ENGLAND | MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDED TO GAIN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR THE PURITANS FROM ENGLISH OPPRESSION. GOAL WAS TO CREATE A PERFECT SOCIETY BASED ON OBEDIENCE TO GOD AND HARD WORK. |
| KING PHILIP'S WAR | CONFLICT WITH NATIVE AMERICANS BY COLONISTS IN NEW ENGLAND |
| TOWN MEETINGS | A FORM OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY PRACTICED IN MASSACHUSETTS WHERE THE CITIZENS MADE THEIR OWN LAWS |
| RHODE ISLAND | FOUNDED BY ROGER WILLIAMS WHO WAS BANISHED FROM MASSACHUSETTS BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. |
| LOSS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS CHARTER | THE KING OF ENGLAND TOOK CONTROL OF MASSACHUSETTS BECAUSE OF THE POWER OF THE PURITAN CHURCH. MASS WAS MADE INTO A ROYAL COLONY |
| SALEM WITCH TRIALS | CONFLICT (RICH V POOR) IN MASSACHUSETTS SHOWING SIGNS OF SOCIAL DISCONTENT WITH THE RIGID LIFE OF PURITANS |
| MID-ATLANTIC COLONIES | ECONOMY BASED ON COMMERCIAL INTERESTS; LARGEST CITIES; BIRTHPLACE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
| NEW AMSTERDAM | NOW KNOWN AS NEW YORK; FIRST SETTLED BY THE DUTCH; TAKEN OVER BY THE ENGLISH |
| NEW YORK | THRIVING COMMERCIAL CENTER TAKEN FROM THE DUTCH BY THE BRITISH |
| PENNSYLVANIA | FOUNDED BY WILLIAM PENN AS A HAVEN FOR QUAKERS |
| MERCANTILISM | ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND ENGLAND; THE COLONIES SUPPLIED RAW MATERIALS AND MARKETS FOR GOODS MADE IN ENGLAND |
| MIDDLE PASSAGE | THE PART OF TRANSATLANTIC TRADE FROM AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS; SLAVE TRADE |
| TRANSATLANTIC TRADE | TRIANGULAR TRADE PATTERN BETWEEN AFRICA, EUROPE, AND THE AMERICAS |
| AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE | A UNIQUE CULTURE WHICH DEVELOPED AS A RESULT OF THE IMPORTATION OF SLAVES TO AMERICA WHERE THEY KEPT SOME OF THEIR AFRICAN CULTURE AND BLENDED THESE WITH EUROPEAN CULTURE |
| FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR | FOUGHT BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND THE BRITISH; BRITISH VICTORY; CAUSED THE BRITISH TO IMPOSE TAXES ON THE COLONISTS WHICH THE COLONISTS OPPOSED; SEEN AS ONE CAUSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
| 1763 TREATY OF PARIS | ENDED THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR; BRITISH VICTORY; FRANCE LOST POSSESSIONS IN CANADA |
| PROCLAMATION OF 1763 | AN ORDER BY THE BRITISH KING FOR AMERICANS TO NOT SETTLE ACROSS THE APPALACHIAN MTNS. IT WAS IGNORED THUS SHOWING THE LACK OF RESPECT FOR BRITISH AUTHORITY |
| STAMP ACT | TAX PASSED BY THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT IN ORDER TO PAY FOR THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. AMERICAN PATRIOTS RESPONDED WITH THE STAMP ACT COMMITTEE WHICH VOTED TO BOYCOTT BRITISH GOODS; PARLIAMEND REPEALED THE TAX; (NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION) |
| INTOLERABLE ACTS | LAWS PASSED BY PARLIAMENT TO PUNISH THE AMERICANS FOR THE BOSTON TEA PARTY. BOSTON HARBOR WAS CLOSED AND THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE WAS ABOLISHED THE AMERICANS RESPONDED BY CALLING THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS |
| SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY | SUPPORTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THAT USED PROPAGANDA TO INCITE SUPPORT FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
| COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE | FORMED BY SUPPORTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO KEEP THE COLONIES INFORMED OF THE EVENTS OF THE REVOLUTION |
| THOMAS PAINE | WROTE COMMON SENSE A PAMPHLET TELLING AMERICANS WHY IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT AMERICA BREAK IT'S TIES WITH ENGLAND |
| DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE | FORMAL SEPARATION FROM ENGLAND; BASED ON THE ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL RIGHTS (JOHN LOCKE); WRITTEN BY THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| JOHN LOCKE | ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHER; ALL MEN ARE BORN WITH NATURAL RIGHTS; WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT THESE RIGHT THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ABOLISH THAT GOVERNMENT |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON | AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; 3RD PRESIDENT OF THE US; LOUISIANA PURCHASE |
| REVOLUTIONARY WAR | WAR FOUGHT BY AMERICAN COLONIES TO WIN INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND |
| FRENCH ALLIANCE | AFTER VICTORY AT SARATOGA THE FRENCH BECAME AN AMERICAN ALLY HELPING US WITH TRAINING AND FUNDING |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN | THE MOST POPULAR MAN IN AMERICA; SIGN OF SOCIAL MOBILITY; AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE |
| MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE | FRENCH GENERAL WHO HELPED TRAIN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON | COMMANDER OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY; FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES |
| PROFESSIONAL MILITARY | RESULT OF WASHINGTON'S TRAINING; A MORE DEMOCRATIC ARMY; |
| LIFE OF A COMMON SOLDIER | MOST WERE NOT PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS BUT HAD SIGNED UP TO FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE. |
| CROSSING THE DELAWARE | GENERAL WASHINGTON SNUCK HIS MEN ACROSS THE DELAWARE RIVER FOR A SURPRISE ATTACK ON GERMAN HESSIANS. RESULTED IN VICTORIES IN PRINCETON AND TRENTON |
| VALLEY FORGE | HORRIBLE WINTER IN WHICH THE CONTINENTAL ARMY ALMOST GAVE UP HOPE |
| BATTLE OF YORKTOWN | LORD CORNWALLIS SURRENDERED; MARKED AMERICAN VICTORY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR |
| LORD CORNWALLIS | BRITISH GENERAL THAT SURRENDERED AT YORKTOWN |
| TREATY OF PARIS 1783 | ENDED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR; AMERICA GAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE |
| ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION | FIRST GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES; LITTLE POWER; STATES HELD ALL THE POWER; ONLY A LEGISLATIVE BRANCH |
| SHAY'S REBELLION | FARMERS' REBELLION WHICH LED TO THE CALLING OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION |
| CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION | WROTE THE CONSTITUTION 1787 IN PHILADELPHIA |
| FEDERALIST | FAVORED A STRONG NATIONAL GOVERNMENT (ALEXANDER HAMILTON) |
| ANTI-FEDERALISTS | WEAK NATIONAL GOVERNMENT; POWER HELD BY THE STATES; DEMANDED A BILL OF RIGHTS; THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| THE FEDERALIST PAPERS | SERIES OF NEWSPAPER ESSAYS WRITTEN IN SUPPORT OF THE CONSTITUTION |
| ALEXANDER HAMILTON | LEADING FEDERALISTS; CO-AUTHOR OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS |
| JAMES MADISON | FATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION |
| UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION | PLAN OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE UNITED STATES |
| GREAT COMPROMISE | COMBINED THE NEW JERSEY PLAN (EQUAL REPRESENTATION) AND THE VIRGINIA PLAN (POPULATION) TO CREATE A BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE (HOUSE OF REPS AND THE SENATE) |
| SEPARATION OF POWERS | THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE BRANCHES (LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL) EACH BRANCH HAS ITS OWN DUTIES THUS LIMITING THE POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT |
| MONTESUUIEU | FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHER WHO DEVISED SEPARATION OF POWERS AS A WAY OF LIMITING THE GOVERNMENT |
| THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY | WAS NOT ADDRESSED AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION FOR FEAR OF THE LOSS OF SOUTHERN SUPPORT. 3/5 COMPROMISE ALLOWED FOR SLAVES TO BE COUNTED IN POPULATION |
| BILL OF RIGHTS | FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION; ADDED TO GAIN THE SUPPORT OF THE ANTI FEDERALISTS |
| PRES GEORGE WASHINGTON | FIRST PRESIDENT; FEDERALIST; NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION AND NON-INTERVENTION IN EUROPEAN AFFAIRS |
| JOHN ADAMS | 2ND PRESIDENT; MAIN CONCERN WAS STAYING OUT OF THE WAR BETWEEN BRITAIN AND FRANCE |
| WHISKEY REBELLION | REBELLION BY FARMERS AGAINST HAMILTON'S ECONOMIC PLAN. THE REBELLION WAS PUT DOWN SHOWING THE UNITED STATES COULD ENFORCE ITS LAWS UNDER THE NEW CONSTITUTION |
| NON-INTERVENTION IN EUROPE | PROBLEM FACED BY FIRST 3 PRESIDENTS; HOW TO STAY OUT OF THE WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE AND STILL TRADE |
| DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES | FEDERALISTS (ALEXANDER HAMILTON) AND JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANS (THOMAS JEFFERSON); FEDERALISTS BELIEVED IN A STRONG NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANS A WEAK GOVERNMENT |
| ALEXANDER HAMILTON | SECRETARY TREASURER UNDER WASHINGTON; CREATED A NATIONAL DEBT WITH A PLAN TO REPAY FROM TARIFFS AND TAX ON WHISKEY; LEADER OF THE FEDERALIST PARTY AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON | 3RF PRESIDENT; AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; LEADER OF THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANS |
| NORTHWEST ORDINACE | ONE SUCCESS OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION; PROCEDURE FOR ADDING NEW STATES; SLAVERY PROHIBITED; LAND SET ASIDE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS |
| LOUISIANA PURCHASE | TERRITORY IN CENTRAL UNITED STATES; BOUGHT FROM FRANCE BY PRESIDENT JEFFERSON; DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE US |
| LEWIS AND CLARK | EXPEDITION THAT SHOWED THE WEALTH OF RESOURCES FOUND IN THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY |
| WAR OF 1812 | WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN; ENCOURAGED BY THE WAR HAWKS, A YOUNG GROUP OF CONGRESSMEN IN FAVOR OF WAR IN ORDER TO TAKE CANADA |
| NATIONAL IDENTITY | VICTORY OVER GREAT BRITAIN IN WAR OF 1812 CREATED NATIONAL PRIDE AND A SENSE OF NATIONAL ISM |
| MONROE DOCTRINE | FOREIGN POLICY WARNING EUROPE TO STAY OUT OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. BASIS FOR EARLY AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY |
| INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION | MADE THE MASS PRODUCTION OF GOODS POSSIBLE; CHANGED THE WAY WE LIVE; GROWTH OF CITIES |
| ELE WHITNEY | COTTON GIN (INCREASED DEMAND FOR SLAVES) AND INTERCHANGEABLE PART (FACTORY SYSTEM) |
| MANIFEST DESTINY | THE BELIEF THAT AMERICA HAD A CHRISTIAN DUTY TO EXPAND FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN |
| TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT | EARLY 19TH CENTURY REFORM MOVEMENT AIMED AT ENDING THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL |
| ABOLITIONISM | END SLAVERY |
| REFORM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS | IMPROVE EDUCATION IN ORDER TO RAISE GOOD CITIZENS |
| WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT | WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE |
| ELIZABETH CADY STANTON | LEADER OF WOMEN'S MOVEMENT; SENECA FALLS CONVENTION |
| SENECA FALLS CONVENTION | FIRST ORGANIZED CONVENTION FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS |
| JACKSONIAM DEMOCRACY | JACKSON WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT ELECTED BECAUSE OF THE VOTE OF THE COMMON MAN |
| NAT TURNER REBELLION | SLAVE UPRISING IN VIRGINIA |
| WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON | WHITE ABOLITIONIST; THE LIBERATOR |
| JOHN BROWN | WHITE ABOLITIONIST WHO BELIEVED GOD HAD PUT HIM ON EARTH TO END SLAVERY. RAID ON HARPERS FERRY AND VIOLENCE IN KANSAS |
| FREDERICK DOUGLAS | FORMER SLAVE ABOLITIONIST; THE NORTH STAR |
| GRIMKE SISTERS | ABOLITIONISTS SISTERS FROM A SLAVE HOLDING FAMILY IN THE SOUTH |
| MISSOURI COMPROMISE | MISSOURI ADMITTED AS A SLAVE STATE; MAINE AS A FREE STATE; LINE DRAWN IN WHICH SLAVERY COULD NOT BE NORTH. DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY THE DRED SCOTT DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT |
| NULLIFICATION CRISIS | SOUTH CAROLINA DECLARED TARIFF OF ABOMINATION UNCONSTITUTIONAL ON THE BASIS THAT STATES HAVE THE POWER TO SO SO. (STATES' RIGHTS) |
| JOHN C. CALHOUN | SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR WHO FAVORED STATES' RIGTHTS |
| MEXICAN WAR | FOUGHT OVER THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS. RESULTED IN TERRITORY FOR THE UNITED STATES INCLUDING CALIFORNIA, UTAH AND NEW MEXICO |
| WILMONT PROVISO | A BILL PUT BEFORE CONGRESS THAT HAD IT PASSED WOULD HAVE FORBIDDEN SLAVERY IN ANY NEW TERRITORIES |
| COMPROMISE OF 1850 | CALIFORNIA ADDED AS A FREE STATE; SENATE UNBALANCED; FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW |
| KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT | POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY (VOTING) WOULD BE USED TO DETERMINE SLAVE OR FREE STATES; RESULTED IN VIOLENCE; CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT BEFORE THE ISSUE COULD BE RESOLVED |
| DRED SCOTT SUPREME COURT CASE | SLAVERY FOUND TO BE CONSTITUTIONAL; MISSOURI COMPROMISE UNCONSTITUTIONAL; REAL BLOW TO THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN | REPUBLICAN ELECTED PRESIDENT; LED TO THE SOUTHERN SECESSION; ASSASSINATED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR; EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION; GETTYSBURG ADDRESS |
| ULYSSES S GRANT | COMMANDER OF THE UNION ARMY OF THE POTOMAC; VICTORY AGAINST CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E LEE |
| ROBERT E LEE | COMMANDER OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY; SURRENDERED TO GRANT |
| "STONEWALL JACKSON" | GENERAL LEE'S FAVORITE GENERAL DURING THE CIVIL WAR |
| WILLIAM T SHERMAN | LED THE DESTRUCTIVE MARCH FROM THE BURNING OF ATLANTA TO THE SEA; DESTROYED THE CONFEDERATE'S WILL TO FIGHT |
| ANTIETAM | UNION VICTORY; BLOODIEST BATTLE; LINCOLN ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION |
| VICKSBURG | UNION VICTORY IN WHICH THE UNION ARMY TOOK CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THUS SPLITTING THE CONFEDERACY IN HALF |
| GETTYSBURG | UNION VICTORY; BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE CONFEDERACY |
| BATTLE FOR ATLANTA | UNION TROOPS BURNED ATLANTA TO THE GROUND AND THEN SHERMAN MARCHED, LEAVING A PATH OF DESTRUCTION, TO THE SEA |
| EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION | FREED SLAVES IN THE CONFEDERACY |
| GREAT AWAKENING | RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN AMERICAN COLONIES; MADE RELIGION MORE DEMOCRATIC BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE ENCOURAGED TO CREATE THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
| ERIE CANAL | LINKED THE GREAT LAKES WITH THE HUDSON RIVER AND THEN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. MADE NEW YORK CITY A MAJOR CITY; EARLY INFRASTRUCTURE |
| SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS | LINCOLN "WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE AND CHARITY FOR ALL" SHOWED HE WAS NOT CONCERNED WITH PUNISHING THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR |
| SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS | LINCOLN DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONTROL BORDER STATES |
| THOMAS EDISON | INVENTION OF THE PHONOGRAPH, LIGHT BULB AND MOVIES |
| PULLMAN STRIKE | STRIKE AGAINST THE RAILROAD; GOVERNMENT SENT IN TROOPS TO PUT DOWN THE UNREST; SHOWED THE GOVERNMENT WOULD SUPPORT BIG BUSINESS RATHER THAN THE UNIONS |
| DUST BOWL | DROUGHT CAUSING PEOPLE TO LEAVE OKLAHOMA AND MOVE TO CALIFORNIA; GREAT DEPRESSION |
| HUEY LONG | STRONG CRITIC OF FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT'S NEW DEAL |
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