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Unit 4: Jackson and Antebellum Era
Chapters 13-19
The chart must be typed following the format of the example (including numbering items). All definitions and examples must relate to this time period. Follow the format of the example; relevance must be numbered and separated by a line space.
Historical Relevance means how an event it connected to other events that occur at the same time or how one event impacted or led to another event. How do events in history relate to one another? How is an event important? Term | Definition | Historical RelevanceMust have two—see example below | 1. Mayflower Compact November 21, 1620 | Puritans on the Mayflower blew off course and landed in Massachusetts nullifying their charter and cancelling indentured servants’ contracts. To maintain order, 41 men on board agreed to sign a covenant (agreement) to form a “Civil Body Politic” and promised to submit to the common laws created. | 1. established a precedent (example) for other written constitutions that would follow such as the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut2. led to the establishment of Plymouth, the first of many Puritan colonies in British America | 1. Cyrus McCormick | American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | 1.His invention helped make weaving faster for cotton cloth.2.His invention eventually turned into the International Harvester Company in 1902 | 2. John Deere | United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil | 1. | 3. Spoils System | a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party | 1.This term was used in the phrase of William L. Marcy, “to the spoils of the enemy”, referring to the Jackson Democratic victory in the election of 18282.Other nations have similar spoils systems that are based off of
Chapters 13-19
The chart must be typed following the format of the example (including numbering items). All definitions and examples must relate to this time period. Follow the format of the example; relevance must be numbered and separated by a line space.
Historical Relevance means how an event it connected to other events that occur at the same time or how one event impacted or led to another event. How do events in history relate to one another? How is an event important? Term | Definition | Historical RelevanceMust have two—see example below | 1. Mayflower Compact November 21, 1620 | Puritans on the Mayflower blew off course and landed in Massachusetts nullifying their charter and cancelling indentured servants’ contracts. To maintain order, 41 men on board agreed to sign a covenant (agreement) to form a “Civil Body Politic” and promised to submit to the common laws created. | 1. established a precedent (example) for other written constitutions that would follow such as the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut2. led to the establishment of Plymouth, the first of many Puritan colonies in British America | 1. Cyrus McCormick | American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | 1.His invention helped make weaving faster for cotton cloth.2.His invention eventually turned into the International Harvester Company in 1902 | 2. John Deere | United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil | 1. | 3. Spoils System | a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party | 1.This term was used in the phrase of William L. Marcy, “to the spoils of the enemy”, referring to the Jackson Democratic victory in the election of 18282.Other nations have similar spoils systems that are based off of