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Class: HIST - American History 1 - Introduction; Subject: History; University: Tallahassee Community College; Term: Forever 1989;
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the study of changing historical interpretations TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 -exploited the rainforest and overpopulated all around the same time. -higher class was over populated.. no lower class to work -"warming period".. fertility of soil went out of wack TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 catholic priest in cuba advocate of Natives Broke away from columbus scholar and historian appealed spanish crown for protective laws for Natives TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 England, France, Netherlands, Spain FENS TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Year: 1675 -new lands were opened to the colonists and the wealthy planters became more cooperative with the small farmers
the colonists had to pay taxes for GB's defense and because they were paying light taxes so GB decided to up the prices TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 they made a treaty of alliance, if France went to was then America had to join. they also made trade concessions TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 Connecticut Pennsylvania Delaware Rhode Island Georgia South Carolina Maryland Virginia Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 Articles of Confederations- congress was made to be a collective substitute for the monarch. It was the nation's executive. No courts and no power to force resolutions and ordinance at neither state nor individual level Confederation- had separation of powers. Legislature, Executive, and Judicial branches. the main goal was they wanted "the people" to have a voice TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 legislative, executive, and judicial branches executive- president, had power to veto over acts of congress, commander in chief of the armed forces and responsible for the execution of the law judiciary- review congressional actions legislative- " think like the people, feel like the people, sympathize with the people"
proposed there should be no slavery in new territory. Senate did not pass it, but Congress did. - Did NOT become a law TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 the main goal for both of them was to make new territory free TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 1848 - discovered 1849- gold rush 1850- applied for state hood TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 -california was admitted as a free state -new mexico and utah had no restrictions on slavery TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 retain slavery in DC but abolish slave trade across its boundaries
popular sovereignty which is....the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of every political power TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 opened these 2 territories to slavery, catalyzing a mini-civil war in Kansas TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 -favored a transcontinental railroad - more government financed internal improvements -condemned repeal of Missouri compromise, democratic policy of territorial expansion and polygamy and slavery TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 decision was that Dred Scott was still considered a slave. technically it was a win for the south because Scott lost his case but it aroused many questions for the free north because if he was a slave then he wouldnt have had any rights therefore he wouldnt have been allowed a trial TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 "40 acres and a mule"
1865-66: outlawed slavery TERM 32
DEFINITION 32 equal citizenship rights for African Americans TERM 33
DEFINITION 33 equal voting rights guaranteed TERM 34
DEFINITION 34 final tally was 35-19 for conviction Radical Republicans tried for years to get Johnson impeached, but failed due to flimsy charges. - johnson then deliberately violated the tenure of office act in order to tests its constitutionality - was then charged with 1. unlawfully removing secretary of war Station 2. issuing orders in violation of the command of the army act 3. undermined congress by "inflammatory and scandalous" harangues 4. devising and contriving to violate reconstruction act TERM 35
DEFINITION 35 former confederates used terror, intimidation and violence to suppress black efforts for equality
KKK- rode about the countryside, hiding behind masks and under robes, spreading horrendous rumors, issuing threats, harassing African Americans and occasionally wreaking violence and destruction federal governemnt passed Enforcement Acts allowing the feds to stop the terrors TERM 37
DEFINITION 37 contest over presidential election. Radical Republicans agreed to stop if Republican pres was elected TERM 38
DEFINITION 38 "Blacks had an 'equal' right to freedom and the fruits of their labor" TERM 39
DEFINITION 39 it sent a panic through the slaveholding south. through the fall & winter rumors of abolitionist conspiracies and slave insurrections swept the slave states TERM 40
DEFINITION 40 Lincoln's election
provided land for thousands of freedman on the coastal islands off georgia. this catalyzed the rumor that the union intended to give all freemen "forty acres and a mule"