European Exploration
Reasons for European Exploration
God Gold and Glory
Religion, Wealth, Fame, Landownership, Trade Routes
A crop that can be easily sold for profit, such as tobacco, sugar, or cotton,
Cash Crop
The law that places taxes on all paper goods
The Stamp Act
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
The Bill of Rights
An interpretation of the constitution that believes that it only gave powers specifically listed in the constitution
What is Strict Construction?
The policy of not choosing side in a conflict or war between other countries
What is Neutrality?
The idea that common people should control the government
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
The belief that that Americans have a god given right to expand their country
What is Manifest Destiny?
To make changes in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices.
What is reform?
A secret network of free blacks and whites who helped thousands of slaves escape to free states and to Canada
What is the Underground Railroad?
The intense loyalty to one region over the other
What is sectionalism?
Mandated that all escaped enslaved people be returned to their masters, even if captured in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The groups of southern states that seceded from the United States
The Confederate States of the United States
The nation that funded and sent Christopher Columbus overseas to Explore
Spain
The Regional colony that provided public school to teach students to read and write
The New England Colonies
The British American conflict that resulted in the shooting and killing of American colonists
The weak and unsuccessful first written government of the United States
What are The Articles of Confederation?
What are the Democratic-Republicans?
The act of forcibly recruiting people, especially sailors, into military or naval service against their will
What is Impressment?
The Conflict between Jackson and South Carolina about the legal power for state and federal government
What is the Nullification Crisis?
American Superiority, Religious refuge, The Homestead Act (Cheap affordable land), and natural resources all describe....
What are reasons for Manifest Destiny?
What are reasons to expand westward?
A revival of religious feeling that taught doing good works could help them to be saved.
What is The Second Great Awakening?
The invention that made cotton the Souths’ most
valuable crop and increased demand for slaves.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The region characterized by their focus on education, urban areas, high population, and major trading centers
What is the North?
Declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states currently in rebellion against the Union "are, and henceforward shall be free"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Union strategy at the start of the Civil War, designed to crush the Confederacy by blockading Southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River to split the South in two
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The Italian man whose book about the riches in china inspired European Exploration
Marco Polo
A regional colony that was culturally and religiously diverse.
The Middle Colony
The purpose of the Declaration of Independence
To explain to the world why Americans were separating from Great Britain.
Any powers not specifically listed are given the people/the states
What is the 10th Amendment?
It's purpose is to advise the President on any subject relating to the duties of the executive branch.
What is the president's cabinet?
Agreement between the United States and Great Britain that avoided war by establishing trade rules
The Jay Treaty
The law that authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A large territory purchased in 1803 under president Thomas Jefferson. This territory was purchased from France. Sometimes this territory is referred to as the Noble Bargain.
What is The Louisiana Purchase?
Led the movement to make education freely available to all, prompting many Northern states to establish Public Schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
unequal treatment based on a person’s race, gender, religion,place of birth, or other arbitrary characteristic
What is Discrimination?
The region characterized by their reliance on cash crops, rural setting, and agricultural economy
What is the South?
a U.S. law that organized the territories allowing settlers to determine the legality of slavery through "popular sovereignty"
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The reason(s) why the civil war is considered the deadliest war in U.S history
What is advancements in weapons or poor medical care?
The three main ways European Exploration and Colonization affected Native Americans
Loss of Life, Loss of Tradition, Loss of Land
The first successful English colony
Jamestown, Virgina
The pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that used logical arguments to convince colonists that Independence was necessary
Common Sense
The armed uprising of farmers against the state for threatening to take their land due to their unpaid debts
Shay's Rebellion
The political party led by Alexander Hamilton that supports a mercantilist economy, a strong national government, and the national bank
What is the Federalist party?
Failed peace negotiations between the U.S and France
What is the XYZ Affair?
The forced removal and journey of Native nations (Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole) to Oklahoma
What is the Trail of Tears?
The 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule to become an independent territory.
What is the Texas War for independence?
A former slave who became an important leader in the abolitionist movement through his speeches and writings
Who is Fredrick Douglass
A slave rebellion that resulted in the violent deaths of slave owning white southerners.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
A system primarily based on agriculture, where farming and land cultivation serve as the main source of livelihood and wealth
What is an Agrarian Economy?
An agreement made by congress in 1820 in which one state was admitted as a free state and another admitted as a slave state. It also banned slavery north of the 36,30 line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Union had this advantage over the North
What is more manufacturing? What is a higher population? What is more railroads?
A great exchange of plants, animals, and diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.
The Colombian Exchange
A formal document that outlined a colonies geographic boundary and specified how it would be governed
A Charter
The conflict between countries over the ownership of the Ohio Valley.
The French Indian War
The Division of Power between the Federal Government and State Government
What is Federalism?
To refuse to enforce a Federal law
What is to nullify?
The law that increased the amount of time it takes to attain American Citizenship
What are the Alien Acts?
The act of only appointing loyal supporters to government positions
What is the Spoils System?
The Territory gained from Spain. This territory was gained as a result of the invasion of general Andrew Jackson and President's Monroe stance "Govern or get out"
What is Florida?
The thought process/ belief that encouraged people to question society's rules and institutions by using emotion and intuition.
What is Transcendentalism?
Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
What are the black codes?
a system centered on manufacturing, mass production, and mechanical technology
What is an Industrial economy?
What is a Mercantilist economy?
Admitted California as a free state, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, establishing popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico, abolishing the slave trade in Washington, D.C
What is the compromise of 1850?
The military attack that cut off the confederate access to the Mississippi river and was considering a major turning point
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
The brutal, deadly forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas
The Middle Passage
Elected members of their community which made their laws.
Colonial Assembly
Which battle convinced France to support the Americans
The Battle of Saratoga
The compromise that resolved a major dispute between large and small states by providing representation based on population in the House of Representatives and equal representation in the Senate (two senators per state).
The Great Compromise or The Connecticut Compromise
The theory that states have the right to nullify unconstitutional laws
States Rights Doctrine
This caused an increase in National pride (Nationalism)
What is winning the War of 1812?
a political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States
What is the Bank War?
The armed conflict sparked by the U.S annexation of Texas and President Polk's desire to expand U.S Territory.
What is the Mexican American War?
The reform movement that began at the Seneca falls Convention which was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stantion and Lucretia Mott. Here they discussed plans for women's suffrage
What is the Equal Rights Movement for women?
The social process of stripping individuals or groups of their human qualities, perceiving them as subhuman
What is dehumanization?
The major factor and difference between the North and South that led to many differences in their economy, transportation, culture, etc
What is slavery?
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and promoted abolitionist ideas
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The attack on a Union military base that started the civil war
What is Fort Sumter?