HUSH fall final study guide_ Updated & Verified Questions and Answers 100% A+ Graded Excel
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HUSH fall final study guide_ Updated & Verified Questions and Answers 100% A+ Graded Excel
"54°40' or fight" - CORRECT ANSWER-used during Polk's campaign of 1844 over the expansion of US Territory in Oregon
"Common Sense" - CORRECT ANSWER-pamphlet written January 1776 by Paine that argued th...
HUSH fall final study guide _ Updated & Verified Questions and Answers 100% A+ Graded Excel "54°40' or fight" - CORRECT ANSWER -used during Polk's campaign of 1844 over the expansion of US Territory in Oregon "Common Sense" - CORRECT ANSWER -pamphlet written January 1776 by Paine that argued that the colonists were exploited by Britain, made a villain of the king, and called for an independent republic. "Father of American Education" - CORRECT ANSWER -Horace Mann. Secretary of the Massachusetts board of education, promoted education in his annual reports. Said "education then, beyond all other devices of human origin is a gre at equalizer of the conditions of men - the balance wheel of the social machinery "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" - CORRECT ANSWER -Famous line in Patrick Henry's speech at the virginia convention "March to the Sea" - CORRECT ANSWER -An evasion of Georgia led by William T. Sherman using total war tactics. Civilian support was undermined by systematic physical destruction. Atlanta fell after a month long siege (September 1864) and Sherman then reached the sea at Savannah (December 21). Living off the land the army marched north, taking South Carolina's capital and invading North Carolina by the war's end. Abraham Lincoln - CORRECT ANSWER -opposed Polk's account of war origins against Mexico, campaigned for senate with Stephen Douglas in a series of debates in 1858, by his inauguration as president seven southern states had left the union, emphasized that the union was perpetual, after his inauguration Virginia and three other states joined the Confedera cy, after the victory at Antietam he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, his reelection in 1864 was seen as a war referendum, at the Gettysburg Address he spoke about national unity, was assassinated 5 days after the end of war in 1865 by John WIlkes Boo th Andrew Jackson & Battle of New Orleans - CORRECT ANSWER -after he defeated the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend he took Pensacola in the West Florida. British troops sent from the West Indies were defeated when they attacked Johnsons forces (including fr ee blacks) at New Orleans (January 8, 1815). Although occurring after the peace agreement had been signed, the Battle of New Orleans gave the Americans a sense of victory and speeded the ratification of the treaty. Articles of Confederation - CORRECT ANSW ER-adopted by Continental Congress in 1777 and sent to the states for ratification. Created a loose confederation of sovereign states. Each state delegation was given one vote in the one house congress. Important legislation require a two thirds vote of th e states; a unanimous vote of state legislatures were required to amend. Articles of Confederation Powers - CORRECT ANSWER -successfully concluded the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War. Western Land Claims sales of lands would provide a source of national revenue. The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided that the Old Northwest was to be sold and surveyed to help pay the national debt : Townships would be divided into 36 one -square -
mile sections to be sold for a minimum of one dollar per acre. Income s ale from the sale of one section was to go to the support of public schools. The Northwest Ordinance provided government for the territory : At first the Congress would govern through appointed governors with gradual increase in self -government. When popul ation permitted, three to five could enter the union on an equal basis with the original thirteen, permanent colonial status was rejected. The Bill of Rights protected rights. Slavery was abolished in the territory. Articles of Confederation Weaknesses - CORRECT ANSWER -The structure of government : proved to be a defective and inadequate under the Articles of Confederation because Congress could request funds and borrow money but not lay taxes and tariffs, declare war not raise armies, not regulate interst ate commerce, negotiate treaties but lacked the authority abroad. Diplomatic problems : congress was unable to compel states to pay pre war debts and return Loyalist's property. European governments closed off American trade with their colonies yet British goods flooded the colonies. John Jay negotiated a trade treaty with Spain but it was blocked by Congress. Financial Problems : Congress and the states had printed "good faith" paper currency during the war but it became worthless. The Confederation govern ment sank deeper into debt. Inflation reached 200%. Foreign trade went through a period of readjustment. Newburgh Conspiracy: George Washington successfully blocked his threatened military coup aimed at strengthening the central government. Paxton Boys: Pe nnsylvania recruits marched on Philadelphia demanding back pay causing congress to flee. Shays Rebellion: Dramatized the government's apparent ability to maintain domestic peace. Assistance for former slaves during Reconstruction - CORRECT ANSWER -The Free dmen's Bureau was setus by Congress in March 1865 to provide for the immediate needs of refugees and freedmen. They established schools and hospitals and provided courts to settle legal disputes involving freed blacks. The Fourteenth Amendment promised equ al protection of the law for everyone except for women, the Fifteenth Amendment allowed blacks to vote, the Three Enforcement Acts protected Blacks and crushed the KKK.
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