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Summary Amh 2010 Midterm Study Guide
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- AMH 2010
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- Florida Atlantic University
This is a comprehensive and detailed study guide on midterm exam for AMH 2010
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Carolinediplomatic disagreement between the US and British regarding british setting fire to an American
steamer carrying supplies across Niagra river to Canadian insurgents
Anthony Johnson
17th century slave who gained his freedom, married, raised a family, and eventually owned [roperty and
slaves himself
Zenger Trial
established that truthful statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as libel
Paxton Boys
armed march on phildelphia by scotts-irish frontiersmen protesting quaker establishments lenient
polocies toward indians
shays rebellion
armed uprising of western massachuetts debitors seeking lower takes and to end property foreclosuers
Albany congress
summoned by the british government to foster greater colonial unity and assureiroquois support in the
escalating war against the french
regular movement
armed conflict that took place from 1689-1691 between aspiring merchants and the ruling elite of New
York resisting the recreation of european social structures in the new world
union party
a coalition of pro-war democrats and republicans formed during the 1864 election to defeat antiwar
northern democrats
South Carolina slave revolt
,slave revolt in 1739 in which militia stopped 30 blacks trying to march to freedom in florida
impressment
forcibly drafting an individual into military service
James madison
father of the constitution
embargo act
act banning the export of any american goods to any foreign port
freeport doctrine
declared that since slavery could not exist without laws to protect it, territory legislatures, not the
supreme court would have the final say on the slavery question
copperheads
nickname for the northern democrats who obstructed the war effort attacking lincoln, the draft and
emancipation
Panic of 1857
financial crash brought on by golf fueled inflation, over speculation and excess gain production raising
calls in the north for higher tariffs and for free homesteads on western public lands
Land ordinance of 1785
provided that the acreage of the old northwest should be sold and its proceeds used to help pay off the
national debt
Louisana Purchase
more than doubled the territory of the united states in 1803
, bacons rebellion
uprising of virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants in response to govenor berkeleys
refusal to protect backcountry settlers in 1676
George Whitefield
ininerant english parson who pioneered the revivalist emotive religious that took place during the 1760s-
1740s
great awakening
religious revival that swept the colonies in the 1730s-1740s emphasizing direct emotive spirituality
chesepeak affair
U.S.- British conflisct resulting in an 1807 embargo after a british shipin search of deserters ensuring a
federalists hold on the judiciary
crittendon amendments
proposed in an attempt to appease the south in 1860 they would have given protection for slavery in all
territories south of 36 degrees and 30 where slavery was supported by popular soverginity
New York slave revolt
slave revolt that took more place in 1712 in which 9 whites died for which 21 blacks were executed,
some burned at the stake
Non-intercourse act
reopened US trade with all but Great Britain and France (1809)
Manifest destiny
justification for mid-19th century expansionism
Northwest ordinance of 1787
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