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US History 3.7

The document provides definitions and brief descriptions of important people, places, events, and concepts from early American history, including the American Revolutionary War, founding of the US government, and events leading up to the Civil War. Key topics covered include the Sons of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson, battles of Lexington and Concord, Washington D.C., compromises around slavery in the Constitution, various acts passed by Britain to control the colonies, declarations of independence, the Continental Congress, the Revolutionary War, drafting of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, expansion of the United States, and early abolitionist movements.

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US History 3.7

The document provides definitions and brief descriptions of important people, places, events, and concepts from early American history, including the American Revolutionary War, founding of the US government, and events leading up to the Civil War. Key topics covered include the Sons of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson, battles of Lexington and Concord, Washington D.C., compromises around slavery in the Constitution, various acts passed by Britain to control the colonies, declarations of independence, the Continental Congress, the Revolutionary War, drafting of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, expansion of the United States, and early abolitionist movements.

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Redcoats

British soldiers

Sons of liberty

Protest group / merchants, traders, and artisans

Thomas Jefferson

First Secretary of state / wanted weaker federal government

Thomas Paine

Who wrote about common sense pamphlet

Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts

Places where war occurred

Washington D.C

Capital in the US

Three-Fifth compromise

A slave is considered as 3/5 of a person

Albany plan of Union

Colonies established their own representatives

Alien and sedition Acts

Alien -> government can put anyone into the prison if you’re not citizen / sedition -> cannot
criticize government publicly

Annapolis convention

Planned for it but only 5 delegates agreed so didn’t worked


Articles of confederation

States were creating their own government

Bill of rights

The first 10 amendments

Constitution

A basic laws in the US

Continental Army

Army of 13 colonies

Currency Act

Taking control of the colonies’ currency

Declaration of independence

US won their independence in America

Declaratory Act

Act that repealed the Stamp Act

First bank of the US

It was used for protecting people’s money

First continental congress

Remain British subject but resist further violation

Franco-American Alliance

Alliance between French and US during American Revolutionary war

Great compromise
Voting should be based on population

Intolerable Acts

Close down Boston Harbor until all the tea was paid

Jay’s treaty

To avoid future conflict

National Bank

Invokes an elastic Clause (congress has the right to make any law)

Navigation Acts

Lowering tax in trading

New Jersey plan

We need slight change / equal representative

Northwest ordinance

Unformed territories into states

Olive Branch Petition

Last attempt before the war

Pinckney’s treaty

Result of Jay’s treaty. About the Mississippi river

Proclamation of 1763

NAs can’t cross the line

Proclamation of Neutrality

US won’t stand at any side


Quebec Act

More liberties to Catholic

Second continental congress

Colonists get prepared for war

Stamp act

Tax on all paper items

Sugar act

British imposed tax on all goods

Townshend Act

Similar to Stamp act. tax on paper, tea, and glass

Treaty of Paris

Spain gave Florida to British

Virginia Plan

Vote based on population

Temperance

Going against alcohol

Transcendentalism

Believe that some people have God characteristic


Underground Railroad

It was used for freeing enslaved people

Universal manhood suffrage

Right to vote

Utopian communities

They believed in afterlife

Battle of the Alamo

Texas became independent country called republic of Texas

Election of 1824

Majority of the states let voters to choose president directly

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Who went exploring on Louisiana territory

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Nat Turner said that God gave him a sign for a rebel

Nullification crisis

States have the right to disobey federal laws

Panic of 1819

People started to move westward after the war

Panic of 1837

This occurred because of the shortage


Seneca Falls convention

First women’s rights convection in the US

Seminole Wars

When US forced NAs to move, a tribe called Seminole refused to move, so led to a war

Trail of Tears

NAs were forced to move

War of 1812

A war between British and French

Aaron Burr

A guy who was against Thomas Jefferson

American Antislavery society

First, blacks joined them white abolitionists

American colonization society

Freed enslaved African Americans

Andrew Jackson

Who ran for president

Charles G. Finney

One of the leaders of the Second Great Awakening

David Walker

Started abolish movement

Democrat Party
One of the contemporary political parties in the US

Democratic-Republican Party

They wanted stronger states

Dorothea Dix

A women who changed the medical field

Eli Whitney

Created cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Federalist party

Party that wanted the new constitution

Frederick Douglass

Created newspaper

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