American History Trivia

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American History Trivia
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Reasons for Colonization

• European rulers wanted new source of wealth
  power
• Mercantilism goods, resources markets for
  mother countries
• Religious Reasons spread religion or to avoid
  persecution
• Better Life escape European hardships famine,
  economic depression, forced military service

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Rise of Colonial Self-Government

• House of Burgesses elected assembly in Virginia
• Mayflower Compact Pilgrims agreed to
  self-government
• Town Meetings In Massachusetts, selectmen
  elected to manage town affairs
• Fundamental Order of Connecticut establish that
  Connecticut would rule itself elect official to
  attend assembly

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Fundamental Documents/Rights as English Citizens

• Magna Carta (1215) guaranteed trial by jury no
  taxes without consent
• Parliament Included lords elected
  representatives
• English Civil War Parliament won supremacy over
  the monarch
• English Bill of Rights (1689) guaranteed that
  Englishmen had certain rights

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New England Colonies

• Small farms merchants
• fishing
• Colder climate and rocky soil

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Middle Colonies

• Fertile soils
• Forests
• People of many ethnic and religious backgrounds

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Southern Colonies

• Warmer climate
• Grew cash crops cotton, tobacco
• Some large plantations with slaves

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Reasons for Colonial Victory

• Leadership Washington foreign military
• Fighting for Homeland
• Methods of Warfare guerilla tactics
• French Alliance troops, money naval support
  critical to win
• Local Support fighting in friendly territory

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Causes of the Revolution

• Proclamation Line of 1763
• Stamp Act (1765)
• Townshend Acts (1767)
• Tea Act (1773)
• Intolerable Acts (1774)

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Articles of Confederation Weaknesses

• No national executive
• No power to enforce laws
• No national courts to settle disagreements
  between states
• No power to tax
• No power to regular trade

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Preamble to Constitution

• Form a more perfect union
• Establish justice
• Insure domestic tranquility (peace)
• Provide for the common defense..
• Promote the general welfare
• Secure the blessings of liberty

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Great Compromise

• Dealt with the issue of Congressional
  representation
• Large states wanted representation based on
  population
• Small states wanted representation to be equal
• Compromise established two houses States equal
  in Senate Congress based on population

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Jacksonian Democracy

• Age of Common Man
• States ended property qualifications for voting
• Nominating conventions held
• Campaigning with dinners, rallies public
  meetings
• Spoils System

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Age of Reform

• Second Great Awakening religious revival
• Abolitionist Movement
• Prison Reform
• Treatment of Mentally Ill
• Temperance Movement
• Womens Rights Movement

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Age of Reform

• Second Great Awakening religious revival
• Abolitionist Movement
• Prison Reform
• Treatment of Mentally Ill
• Temperance Movement
• Womens Rights Movement

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Causes of the Civil War

• Sectionalism North, South West have unique
  ways of life and unique concerns
• States Rights
• Slavery
• Breakdown of compromise
• Election of Lincoln

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Lincoln Speeches

• Lincoln Douglas Debates,1858
• First Inaugural Address,1861 reassured South
  but committed to saving Union
• Emancipation Proclamation,1862 freed slaves in
  rebelling states
• Gettysburg Address,1863 elevated war to
  continued survival of democracy
• Second Inaugural Address, 1865 emphasized end
  of slavery, and healing the nation

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Reconstruction in South

• Freedmens Bureau helped former slaves
• Carpetbaggers Scalawags
• Hiram Rhodes Revel 1st African American elected
  to Congress
• Sharecropping System Freedmen occupied former
  plantations in exchange for landowner getting a
  share kept freedman in virtual slavery

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Opening the West

• Homestead Act cheap land available to settlers
• Morrill Act established colleges
• Transcontinental Railroad made travel easier
• Dawes Act removed to Indians to government
  reservations in the West

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Trivia.again!
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Reasons for Colonization

• European rulers wanted new source of wealth
  power
• Mercantilism goods, resources markets for
  mother countries
• Religious Reasons spread religion or to avoid
  persecution
• Better Life escape European hardships famine,
  economic depression, forced military service

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Rise of Colonial Self-Government

• House of Burgesses elected assembly in Virginia
• Mayflower Compact Pilgrims agreed to
  self-government
• Town Meetings In Massachusetts, selectmen
  elected to manage town affairs
• Fundamental Order of Connecticut establish that
  Connecticut would rule itself elect official to
  attend assembly

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Fundamental Documents/Rights as English Citizens

• Magna Carta (1215) guaranteed trial by jury no
  taxes without consent
• Parliament Included lords elected
  representatives
• English Civil War Parliament won supremacy over
  the monarch
• English Bill of Rights (1689) guaranteed that
  Englishmen had certain rights

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New England Colonies

• Small farms merchants
• Fishing
• Colder climate and rocky soil

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Middle Colonies

• Fertile soils
• Forests
• People of many ethnic and religious backgrounds

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Southern Colonies

• Warmer climate
• Grew cash crops cotton, tobacco
• Some large plantations with slaves

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Reasons for Colonial Victory

• Leadership Washington foreign military
• Fighting for Homeland
• Methods of Warfare guerilla tactics
• French Alliance troops, money naval support
  critical to win
• Local Support fighting in friendly territory

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Causes of the Revolution

• Proclamation Line of 1763
• Stamp Act (1765)
• Townshend Acts (1767)
• Tea Act (1773)
• Intolerable Acts (1774)

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Articles of Confederation Weaknesses

• No national executive
• No power to enforce laws
• No national courts to settle disagreements
  between states
• No power to tax
• No power to regular trade

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Preamble to Constitution

• Form a more perfect union
• Establish justice
• Insure domestic tranquility (peace)
• Provide for the common defense..
• Promote the general welfare
• Secure the blessings of liberty

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Great Compromise

• Dealt with the issue of Congressional
  representation
• Large states wanted representation based on
  population
• Small states wanted representation to be equal
• Compromise established two houses States equal
  in Senate Congress based on population

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Jacksonian Democracy

• Age of Common Man
• States ended property qualifications for voting
• Nominating conventions held
• Campaigning with dinners, rallies public
  meetings
• Spoils System

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Age of Reform

• Second Great Awakening religious revival
• Abolitionist Movement
• Prison Reform
• Treatment of Mentally Ill
• Temperance Movement
• Womens Rights Movement

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Causes of the Civil War

• Sectionalism North, South West have unique
  ways of life and unique concerns
• States Rights
• Slavery
• Breakdown of compromise
• Election of Lincoln

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Lincoln Speeches

• Lincoln Douglas Debates,1858
• First Inaugural Address,1861 reassured South
  but committed to saving Union
• Emancipation Proclamation,1862 freed slaves in
  rebelling states
• Gettysburg Address,1863 elevated war to
  continued survival of democracy
• Second Inaugural Address, 1865 emphasized end
  of slavery, and healing the nation

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Reconstruction in South

• Freedmens Bureau helped former slaves
• Carpetbaggers Scalawags
• Hiram Rhodes Revel 1st African American elected
  to Congress
• Sharecropping System Freedmen occupied former
  plantations in exchange for landowner getting a
  share kept freedman in virtual slavery

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Opening the West

• Homestead Act cheap land available to settlers
• Morrill Act established colleges
• Transcontinental Railroad made travel easier
• Dawes Act removed to Indians to government
  reservations in the West

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