Title: Why did the Puritans want to leave England?
1Why did the Puritans want to leave England?
2What religious movement was focused on getting an
emotional response from its audience?
3Why did the British begin taxing the colonists in
1763?
- pay for the French Indian (7 yrs.) War
4Who did the southern colonies rely upon for their
labor force?
5Who was the primary author of the Declaration of
Independence?
6Which enlightenment thinker pushed for a three
branch government?
7Which enlightenment thinker was an advocate for
the protection of natural rights (life,
liberty, property)? Where did they believe these
rights came from?
8Which enlightenment thinker pushed government
by the general will?
9What famous pamphlet in 1776 called for
Americans to reject monarchy support
independence? Who was its author?
- Common Sense, Thomas Paine
10What document set up our nations first
government but ended up giving too much power to
the states?
- Articles of Confederation
11Name two weaknesses of the Articles of
Confederation.
- no power to tax, no power to coin money, no
executive branch, weak central government
12What were the two main purposes of the
Declaration of Independence?
- Establish ideology behind revolution and list
grievances vs. King George
13How many houses are their in our Congress? What
are their names?
- 2, the Senate and the House of Representatives
14What were the two major compromises made during
the drafting of the United States Constitution?
- Great Compromise (large states House, small
states Senate), 3/5 Compromise (5 slaves count
for 3 men)
15What part of the government did the Federalists
want strengthened in the new constitution?
- the national (Federal) government, get
itFederalists
16What group pushed hard for the inclusion of the
Bill of Rights?
17What freedoms are guaranteed by the First
Amendment?
- Speech, religion, press, assembly, petition
18Who has the power to declare laws/acts
unconstitutional (aka the power of Judicial
review established in Marbury v. Madison)?
- Judicial Branch/Supreme Court
19What was Hamiltons (the Federalist) vision for
America?
- A country based on manufacturing and a strong
central government
20What was Jeffersons (the Democratic Republican)
vision of America?
- Agricultural society, everybody owns land, strong
states rights
21What was the Monroe Doctrine (issued in 1823)?
- dont mess around in our hemisphere well stay
out of yours (to Europe)
22What is Manifest Destiny?
- The belief that the U.S. would someday control
the land from coast to coast.
23What change in voting requirements allowed the
common man to support Andrew Jackson and the
new Democratic Party in 1828?
- End to the property requirement for voting
24How were the industries of westward expansion in
conflict with the lifestyle of the Plains NAs?
- settled (mining farming) vs. nomadic
25Why did Mormons move west to the Utah territory?
- To escape religious persecution
26What was Lincolns main purpose at the start of
the fighting in the Civil War?
27What happened to the Southern industrial and
agricultural production facilities during the war?
- They were almost totally wiped out
28What was the purpose of the Emancipation
Proclamation?
- Free the slaves in rebel states
29In what speech did Lincoln call for a new
birth of freedom and identify the new goals of
the war?
30What did the Civil War Amendments (13, 14, 15)
do?
- Made slavery illegal (13), extends civil rights
to all races (14), voting rights for all males
(15)
31Name 2 things that kept freedmen from gaining
true equality.
- sharecropping, KKK, black codes, racist
attitudes, poverty
32Name 2 ways Southern states kept freedmen from
voting.
- poll taxes, literacy tests, threats violence
33What was the major demographic shift after the
Civil War?
- urbanization (shift from country to city)
34What inventions helped fuel the growth of cities?
- telephone, electric light, use of steel in
construction, electric street car
35Give 3 examples of poor working and living
conditions in the new industrial cities.
- heat/cold, unsafe machines, long hours, low
wages, overcrowding, crime and disease
36Describe 2 ways that districts or neighborhoods
developed in these new cities?
- by industry, wealth, racial or ethnic group
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37What religious movement of the late 1800s
created a desire by Christians to save their
souls by reforming society and by helping the
less fortunate?
- The Second Great Awakening
38What was the goal of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony at the Seneca Falls Convention
in 1846?
- Womens rights including suffrage (the right to
vote)
39What famous book (and author) exposed the horrors
of these conditions, especially in Chicagos meat
packing industry?
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
40How did workers eventually respond to these poor
conditions?
41What was the first national labor organization?
Who did they try and organize?
- Knights of Labor, all workers
42What type of worker did the American Federation
of Labor (AFL) try to organize? Who was their
first leader?
- skilled white male workers, Samuel Gompers
43What is laissez faire economics?
- a system with little or no government control or
interference with business/trade
44Why were new immigrants subjected to so much
discrimination?
- different languages, religions (Roman Catholic,
Jewish), complexions, cultural differences
45How did the Americanization Movement attempt to
help immigrants succeed?
- education in the American way of life,
including public schools, Protestant religion,
hygiene, English language
46What did political machines offer to immigrants
in order to get their votes?
- help with housing, finding a job, etc.
47Identify two problems political machines caused
for their constituents.
- corruption, voting fraud, bribery, graft
48What do you call a group of corporations
controlled by the same board for common interest?
49What type of government economic policy did the
business leaders of the late 1800s want?
50What theory favored by William Graham Sumner used
ideas about evolution to explain differences
between the rich and the poor?
51What theory used biblical ideas to justify
gaining wealth (as long as it was shared to help
society)?
52What development in transportation linked trade
between cities after the Civil War?
53What kind of person was likely to be a populist?
Where were they likely to live?
54Name 2 demands of the populists.
- silver-backed currency, higher crop prices, a
natl bank to give fair loans, regulation of the
RRs