Period 1
What year did Christopher Columbus arrive to the New World?
1492
what is salutory neglect?
unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely enforced on the American colonies and trade.
What was the Stamp Act?
Tax imposed by Parliament on every piece of paper that the colonists used.
What was the Embargo Act of 1807?
Act that closed US ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain which increased smuggling
What was Manifest Destiny?
The belief that the United States was destined by god to spread across North America. This justified century exapnsionism.
What is the Encomienda system?
Colonists were tasked by the Spanish crown with supervising and converting Indigenous peopls to Christianity, in exchange, the colonists were entitled to labor from the Natives.
what are the Navigation Acts?
series of laws that required colonists to only buy goods from Britain, sell certain products only to England, and put taxes on non-English imports.
What was the Sugar Act?
Act that cut the tax on foreign molasses, put a high tax on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum
What is another name for Jacksonian Democracy?
Universal White Male Suffrage; form of voting rights in which all adult white males citizens are allowed to vote
What is Wilmot Proviso?
Sought to prohibit slavery from western territories acquired from Mexico.
What is the Middle Passage
Middle leg of Triangle Slave Trade between colonies, Europe, and Africa where many suicides, disease, and insurrections took place
Who was William Penn?
He is the founder of Pennsylvania.
What happened at the first Continental Congress?
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Authorized the president to grant lands West of the Mississippi River to Native tribes that agreed to give up their homelands
What was Nativism?
A political policy that promoted the interest of natives against those of immigrants.
What was the effect of the Pueblo Revolt:
Native Americans drove Spanish Settlers out of New Mexico and settlers left behind their horses, which the Native Americans adopted.
What was Poor Richards's Almanack?
Proverbs and aphorisms which spotlighted industry, thrift, morality, and common sense.
What were the Articles of Conferderation?
The first American Constitution. Was very weak and unorganized.
What was the effect of Nat Turner's Slave rebellion?
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion led to Southern states passing slave codes that prohibited Black people from learning how to read
Zachary Taylor
What are joint stock companies?
corporate businesses made up of shareholders whose mission was to settle and develop lands in North America
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
An armed rebellion by Virginia settlers because the government refused Bacon's request to drive Native Americans out of Virginia.
What was the Great Compromise composed of?
The Great Compromise was made up of the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan; this compromise included a bicameral legislature and equal representation in House of Representatives according to population
What was the Cult of Domesticity?
Idea that Women only exist in private, domestic spaces and should not venture into public, political spaces.
What was Dred Scott vs. Stanford?
Decision that extended federal protection of slavery saying congress doesn't have power to prohibit it.