Period 1
The transfer of plants, animals, diseases and people.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The people who traded their freedom to be taken to the new world. Worked for a certain number of years then released
Who are Indentured servants?
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted taxes from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
What is the Stamp Act?
the acquisition of the territory by the United States from France in 1803 in return for fifteen million dollars
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain to the people in 13 colonies
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
The Spanish trade system to regulate and control the Native Americans
What is the Encomienda system?
An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe
What is the enlightenment period?
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston
What is the Boston Massacre?
A drastic change of the economy that disoriented and coordinated all aspects of the market economy in line with both nations and the world
What is the Market revolution?
What are the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
He was looking for Asia but found North America
Who is Christopher Columbus?
First permanent colony in the New World
What is Jamestown?
A riot where colonists threw tea into the harbor to protest the tea act
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The U.S. would recognize and not interfere with existing European colonies and not interfere with the internal affairs of European countries
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
England and France wanted to control the Ohio River Valley
What were the Causes of the French and Indian War?
Spaniard who fought against the enslavement and colonial abuse of Native Americans.
Who is Las Casas?
An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts?
a strong federal government, support of business through tariffs, opposed President Andrew Jackson and liked the national bank
What are the Beliefs of the Whig Party?
British victory caused territorial claimed in the new world but the cost of the war made really bad debt
What were the effects of the French and Indian War?
Businesses owned by shareholders that invested in exploration and colonization
What is Joint Stock Companies?
shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale subsistence farming and puritans
What are the characteristics of New England Colonies?
Laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists
What are the Townshend Acts?
Expanded suffrage, Manifest Destiny, patronage, strict constructionism, and laissez-faire economics
What are the Beliefs of the Jacksonian Democrats?
What was the significance of Washington's farewell address?