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35 Cards in this Set
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101. Under the mercantilist system, the American colonies were supposed to
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provide England with necessary raw materials and serve as a market for England’s manufactured goods
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102. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence based on the principle of
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natural rights
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103. A social contract is an agreement between
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a government and its people
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104. Salutary Neglect refers to the period when
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Britain allowed the colonies to run themselves with little interference
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105. The French and Indian War was considered a turning point in the colonial period for what reason?
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Colonists faced increased taxation by England to pay their share of the British war debt
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109. The Alien and Sedition Acts were an attempt by the Federalists to
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restrict anti-government activities and immigration
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115. What was a precedent set by the Washington Administration?
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The Executive Cabiney
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116. In Marbury v. Madison (1803) the Supreme Court established the doctrine of
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Judicial Review
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118. Please list three things that happened as a result of the War of 1812:
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1. relations with Britain improved
2. the U.S. maintained its independence 3. U.S. nationalism increased |
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119. Please list three aspects that represented nationalism in the Era of Good Feelings:
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The Monroe Doctrine
The National Road The American System |
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120. Please list three aspects that represent a vital piece of the American System:
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roads and canals
tariffs on British goods national banking system |
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121. What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
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to prevent European re-colonization of the Americas
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122. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 can best be described as
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a temporary solution to the deeper problem of slavery in America
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123. Slave labor was made more profitable throughout the South as a result of
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the invention of the cotton gin
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124. “Jacksonian Democracy” may be described as an effort to
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make government more directly responsible to the people
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125. President Jackson increased presidential power by
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using the veto more than all previous Presidents
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126. To Jackson, the National Bank symbolized
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Eastern wealth and power
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127. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
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called for women to receive more legal rights
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128. In American history, the doctrine of “Manifest Destiny” refers to the
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American right to expand to the Pacific coast
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129. The large number of settlers moving from the U.S. to Texas led to
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an independence movement in Texas
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130. What was the United States’ aim in the Mexican War?
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to acquire new territory
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137. The main cause of the war between Mexico and the United States resulted from a dispute over
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the southern boundary of Texas
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138. Many southerners wanted to gain territory in order to
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increase the number of slave states
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139. What happened based on the Compromise of 1850
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The New Mexico and Utah territories were granted popular sovereignty.
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140. Southerners were upset by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, because
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they believed it presented an inaccurate view of slavery
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141. According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the question of slavery in this region was to be decided by
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popular sovereignty
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142. Please list three things decided in the Dred Scott case:
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1. the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
2. a slave had no right to sue for freedom 3. a state could not prohibit slavery |
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143. At the start of the Civil War, President Lincoln’s main goal for fighting the Civil War was to
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preserve the union
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150. Reconstruction of the South
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failed to achieve equality for Southern blacks
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149. Reconstruction came to an end when
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federal troops were removed from the South
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148. Sharecropping effected ex-slaves in what way?
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economically tied blacks to the land in the South
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147. A major goal of the Radical Republicans’ Reconstruction policies was to
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punish the South for the devastation of the Civil War
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146. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves
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only in areas under Confederate control
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145. The South expected Britain’s aid during the war because the South
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produced the cotton used in British textile mills
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144. The seven states of the deep South based their right to secede on the theory of
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states’ rights
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