Exploration & Colonies
Transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Colonists supporting independence
Patriots
Document replacing the Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Purchase that doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
Compromise dealing with slavery expansion - Created the Mason-Dixon Compromise line
Missouri Compromise
Mountain range along the eastern U.S
Appalachian
The explorer who reached the Americas in 1492
Christopher Columbus
Colonists loyal to Britain
Loyalists
First ten amendments
Bill of Rights
Explorers sent west after the Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned
Fugitive Slave Act
Longest river in the United States
missoui
Country that established the 13 Colonies
England
Protest phrase against unfair British taxes - ( what was the slogan they used / what were they mad about)
Taxation without representation
Supported a strong central government
Federalists
Belief that America should stretch coast to coast
Manifest Destiny
California entered the Union as this type of state
Free State
Nickname for the Middle Colonies because of farming wheat
Breadbasket Colonies
Transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic
Middle Passage
A document declaring independence from Britain
Declaration of Independence
Opposed the Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights
Antifederalists
Event beginning in 1849 that brought people west seeking wealth
California Gold Rush
Violent fighting in Kansas over slavery
Bleeding Kansas
Major Southern colonial crops
Tobacco and cotton (cash crops)
First successful English settlement in North America
Jamestown
Law forcing colonists to house soldiers
Quartering Act
Major weakness of the Articles of Confederation
Weak national government
The forced movement of Native Americans westward
Bonus! - What law of Congress allowed the president to make treaties directly to negotationat moving natives
Trail of Tears - Indian removal act
Treaty leading to Cherokee removal
Treaty of New Echota
River forming the western boundary of the original colonies
Mississippi
British policy allowing colonies to mostly govern themselves
Salutary Neglect
Washington warned against these in his Farewell Address
Foreign alliances, political parties, and unity
Supreme Court case establishing judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
Policy warning Europe to stay out of the Americas
Major issue causing conflict in Western territories
Expansion of slavery
Where did Columbus first land in the Americas?
Bahamas