Period 1
This crop was the staple crop for producing large population centers in the Americas pre-European contact.
corn/maize
What document established self-government in Plymouth Colony?
The Mayflower Compact
His pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Thomas Paine or Common Sense
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
The Louisiana Purchase
This Eli Whitney invention that helped increased the use of slave labor
The cotton gin
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
Great Plains tribes' main food source was...
Buffalo
Name of the predominant religious group in MA.
Puritans
Head of the Supreme Court under Jefferson-Monroe, who opposed Democratic-Republican legislation, and enforced federalist policies (strong national government)
John Marshall
This conflict led to a brief period of nationalistic fervor, and helped the U.S. gain respect abroad.
The War of 1812
The name of the man who was seen as an anti-slavery martyr by the North but a terrorist to slavery in the South.
John Brown
These laws, primarily in the South, enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jim Crow laws
The name of the large civilization in Mexico that would be conquered by the Spanish Conquistador Cortez.
Aztecs
Which colony was founded for religious freedom by Roger Williams?
Rhode Island
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
The Articles of Confederation
President who vetoed the national bank, voice of the common man, and pushed through the Indian Removal Act.
Andrew Jackson
This amendment establishes birth right citizenship.
14th Amendment
Name 3 technology advances during Period 6:
Expansion of the railroad
Electricity
Steel production
Packaged foods
Cable cars - transportation
The economic system that colonial powers used to create one-sided trade relationships with their colonies.
Mercantilism
This was the first religious revival which occurred in the British Colonies
The Great Awakening
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
The American System
This established popular sovereignty and allowed citizens of these territories to vote on the issue of slavery.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
What did the Transcontinental Railroad connect?
The East Coast and West Coast
Native American lifestyles were highly adapted to their...
Their Environment and or geography
The first enslaved African arrived in the North American colonies in the year
1619
British policy of non-enforcement of trade laws. Its end meant tighter British control and sparked colonial resistance.
Salutary Neglect
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
The Indian Removal Act or Trail of Tears
This was an attempt to eliminate slavery completely in all of the newly gained Western Territories
Wilmot Proviso
What system trapped many African Americans in debt after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
The name for the term of the goods, ideas, and diseases that were transferred between the New and Old Worlds.
The Columbian Exchange
This woman was exiled from the MA Bay Colony for her belief that women should have a voice in the church.
Anne Hutchinson
This event showed the federal government's inability to respond to economic unrest or maintain order, prompting calls for a new constitution.
Shay's Rebellion
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’
Missouri Compromise
The name for a person who did not want slavery to expand into the newly acquired territories in the West.
Free Soiler
What philosophy justified survival of the fittest in business?
Social Darwinism
The term or name for the three crops that grew well together that provided Native Americans a strong diet.
Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, Squash)
System of labor in which a company or individual paid a person's passage to America in return for a contract of repayment through labor (usually up to seven years).
Indentured Servitude
The name of the compromise that counted part of the slave population towards a state's population for representatives in the Federal Government.
3/5ths Compromise
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Nat Turner Rebellion
This Supreme Court Decision determined that slaves were not citizens protected by the Constitution.
Dred Scott Decision
This is the exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclude competition
Monopoly
The name of the event where a Native American people revolted against the Spanish due to Spanish assimilation practices in the Southwestern United States.
The Pueblo Revolt
Name of the rebellion that created the idea of race-based slavery in America and stoked tension between farmers and elite members of the colonies
Bacon's Rebellion
It forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachians to avoid conflict with Natives. Colonists defied it, seeing it as British interference.
Proclamation of 1763
Name for the evolving infrastructure, economy, and industry in the United States during the first half of the 1800s.
The Market Revolution or First Industrial Revolution
The year of the election that would lead to the end of Reconstruction.
1876 or the Compromise of 1877
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Plessy v Ferguson