Work, Exchange, Tech
The name that describes the first globalized transfer of crops, animals, people, disease and ideas.
The Columbian Exchange
The U.S. purchased the this territory from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the U.S. and giving the U.S. full control of the Mississippi River
The Louisiana Purchase
A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
Mestizo
The discovery of precious minerals in California led to this migration movement.
The Gold Rush
Northeast alliance of Native Americans that included those who lived in longhouses. They established first American democracy.
Iroquois Confederacy (Great League of Peace)
Method of factory management that evolved in the textile mills of Lowell, MA
Lowell System
The belief that it was their God-given right to expand U.S. territory from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean, coast to coast
Manifest Destiny
He was a former slave who became a significant leader in the abolitionist movement. He was known for his great oratorical skills.
Frederick Douglass
A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.
The Triangular Slave Trade
In this agreement of the Constitution, slaves were counted as population for votes in congress; three out of every five slaves were counted for one white person.
Three-fifths Compromise
Economic system of the early 1800s that is based on the unregulated buying and selling of goods and services; prices are determined by the forces of supply and demand
Market Economy
Natives in this region were diverse, had many conflicts over resources, and developed an irrigation system.
Southwest
The belief that a woman's proper role in life was found in domestic pursuits (raising children, taking care of the house). It was strongly believed by many throughout the 19th century.
Cult of Domesticity
This was the forced march of the Cherokee people from Georgia to Indian Territory in the winter; a large percentage of Cherokee died on the journey.
Trail of Tears
First form of government in the U.S.
A lot of weaknesses
No strong central government
Strong state governments
Causes economical problems and failure
The Articles of Confederation
The King of Spain gave land grants to Spanish Conquistadors in return for the promise to Christianize them. This is part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue the native population
Encomienda System
This was the 1820 agreement crafted by Henry Clay, it consisted of three bills that:
* Admitted Missouri as a slave-holding state
* Admitted Maine as a free state
* Prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 30
Missouri Compromise
a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
The Great Awakening
This group fled their country due to a potato famine, causing a wave of immigrants to enter in the early 1800s.
Irish
1783 ended the American Revolutionary War.
This treaty granted the land British gave Indians as American land. American colonies were also recognized as their own independent country.
Treaty of Paris 1783
AKA Cumberland Road; it was the first significant road built in the US at the expense of the federal government that stretched from the Potomac River to the Ohio River
National Road (1811)
This was the controversial land that led to the French and Indian War. The British won this war and claimed this land. It is also the region where the British fur traders went.
Ohio River Valley
Name for the people who were born in Spain that came to Latin America. Not Conquistadors.
Peninuslares
In 1845, the U.S. had a new acquisition that Mexico did not like.
Annexation of Texas
1754 - 1763; conflict between France and Great Britain over land in North America in the Ohio River Valley.
French and Indian War (aka the Seven Years' War)