Summary U.S. History exam review In-class activity

U.S. History exam review In-class activity Mercantalism - System of trade between a mother country and a colony Columbia Exchange - Movement of gooods between the new world and the old Glorious revolution - Parliment replaces the King of England Articles of Confederation - 1st American Constitution Great compromise - Settled dispute over representation in Cogress Great Migration - Puritans immigrate to the USA in large numbers Capitalism - Buisnesses are privately owned and free market determines prices Missouri compromise - Kept the balance between Free and Slave states Industrial Revolution - machines replace man, less skilled workers needed Mayflower Compact - puritans agreed to follow laws agreed upon for the general good of the colony Andrew Jackson - President who started the so-called spoils system Nat Turner - Leader of a slave revolt in Virginia Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Abolitoinist and women's rights activist John Locke - enlightment thinker who influenced the founders of the United States Alexander Hamilton - Federalist who established a national banking system James Monroe - President who warned the European powers to stay out of Latin America George Washington - commander-in-cheif of the Continental Army Dred Scott case - the supreme court ruled that the constitution did not apply to black people Antietam - in 1862, the Union blocked the Confederate drive into the North Copperhead - a northerner who sympathized with the South during the Civil War Compromise of 1850 - Henry Clay introduced to settle the debate over the admissino of California as a state Battle of Vicksburg - gave the North control of the Mississippi Emancipation Proclamation - Lincoln outlawed slavery in Confederate territory Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin which condemned slavery John Brown - Led a voilent raid to portest slavery at Harpers Ferry, Viriginia in 1850 Henry Clay - Senator who devised the Compromise of 1850 Jefferson Davis - president of the Confederate States Stephen Douglas - developed concept of Popular Soverignty Carpetbaggers - A northerner who came to the south to live during Reconstruction Share Tenantry - farm families worked the land in return for a share of the crop Scalawag - a southerner who cooperated with Radical Reconstruction Disenfranchisment - one of the goals of the Radical Republicans Solid South - white southerners almost unamious support of the Democratic Party after the period of Reconstruction Henry Grady - Editor of the Atlanta Constitution Samuel Tilden - Democratic canidate for the President in 1876 Charles Sumner - Leader of Radical Republicans Edwin Stanton - Lincoln's Secretary of War who was fired by Johnson W.E.B Du Bois - Called Reconstruction a "glorious failure" Booker T. Washington - Most famous African-American after the Civil War Dividend - Part of a corporation's profits are paid to each shareholder in the farm