Exploration&Colonization
Cash crop of Jamestown, Virginia.
What is tobacco?
Commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
5th president says Europe can't colonize the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The purpose of the colonies is to provide wealth and resources for the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Brought immigrants to the US in huge masses.
What are factory jobs in cities?
Name of first colonial government in North America, AND it's location.
House of Burgesses in Jamestown.
Principle represented by the Bill of Rights.
What are Individual Rights/Liberties?
Efficient transportation of goods and people, expanded canal system.
Principle that ensures the three branches have power over each other so one doesn't get too strong.
What is Checks and Balances?
Assisted formerly enslaved African Americans after emancipation
Who are the Freedmen's Bureau?
The motivation of French colonizers.
What is Fur Trade with natives.
The eighth amendment.
What is no cruel and usual punishment or excessive bail?
What is judicial review?
Principle that says federal and state governments share power.
What is Federalism?
Conflict after gaining a ton of land from Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
What are conflicts over number of slave and free state.
Original motivation for European Explorers like Christopher Columbus.
What is finding trade routes to Asia.
Parliament makes laws to restrict smuggling, so they get more revenue.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Caused split of political parties, issue of federal power to create___________.
What is the national bank?
Principle that says the people have power.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Idea that Americans have a God given right to expand from Coast to Coast?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Spanish created to convert Natives to Catholicism.
What are Missions?
John Locke's natural rights, copied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
Main effect of the War of 1812.
What is expansion of domestic manufacturing/ rise of American factories.
Impacts (2) of Cotton Gin?
Increase of Cotton production and demand for enslaved labor
Says enslaved people who free themselves and escape to North must be returned to slavery in South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act/ Compromise of 1850.