Interactions between Europeans & Natives
This transatlantic exchange, beginning in the late 15th century, spread crops like maize and potatoes, animals like horses, and devastating diseases between the Old World and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention called for equal rights for women, including the most controversial demand: ______
What is voting?
This northern English colonial region was settled largely by Puritans seeking religious freedom, resulting in tight-knit, family-centered communities.
What is New England?
Added in 1791, this first ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteed protections such as freedom of speech, religion, and the right to a fair trial.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This 19th‑century belief held that Americans were destined—some said by divine will—to spread across the continent, a mindset used to justify acquiring land and moving settlers into Native American territories.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Compared to other European powers, this nation often built alliances through trade and intermarriage, leading to generally stronger relationships with Native American tribes in North America.
Who are the French?
In early colonial America, Europeans agreed to work for a set number of years for passage to the colonies, but as planters sought a more permanent labor force and shifted to slavery, this system declined.
What is indentured servitude?
This region of the English colonies, known for tobacco plantations and a population mostly of young male settlers, included Maryland and Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake?
To ease tension over slavery’s expansion, this congressional agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and drew a line across the Louisiana Territory restricting slavery north of 36°30′
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Fought in the 1840s, this war gave the United States huge new territory, and Congress soon argued fiercely over whether slavery should be allowed in these lands.
What is the Mexican-American War?
These interactions were marked by conquest, encomienda labor systems, and forced conversion, as this European power sought gold, land, and religious control in the Americas.
Who were the Spanish?
This 18th-century religious revival emphasized emotional preaching and personal faith, uniting the colonies and challenging traditional church authority.
What is the First Great Awakening?
Competition for land and control of the fur trade in North America between Britain and France were major causes of this global conflict from 1756 to 1763.
What is the Seven Years' War?
This early‑19th‑century Protestant revival spread through camp meetings and revivals across the U.S., emphasizing personal salvation and inspiring movements for temperance, abolition, and women’s rights.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This early‑19th‑century transformation of the U.S. economy — marked by improved transportation, communication, and a shift toward a market‑oriented society — was supported in part by government funding for roads, canals, and other internal improvements
What is the Market Revolution?
First domesticated by Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, this staple crop supported large populations and later spread worldwide through European contact.
What is maize?
This 17th-century conflict, led by the Wampanoag chief Metacom, was one of the deadliest wars in early New England and left Native communities weakened and diminished.
What is Metacoms Rebellion?
After the Seven Years’ War left Britain deeply in debt, it raised these on the American colonies, leading to protests and boycotts.
What are taxes?
During the early‑19th‑century Market Revolution, these artificial waterways drastically cut transportation costs and linked regional markets, helping goods move from the interior to eastern cities.
What are canals?
Kentucky politician Henry Clay promoted this national economic plan of the early 1800s that combined protective tariffs, a national bank, and federally supported internal improvements to unify and strengthen the U.S. economy.
What is the American System?
Early interactions between this European group and Native Americans often involved trading furs and food for metal tools and weapons, though competition for land later led to conflict.
Who were the English/British?
These economic ideas led Parliament to pass laws like the Navigation Acts, requiring colonial trade to benefit the mother country by using English ships and markets.
What is mercantilism?
To reduce conflict with Native Americans after the French and Indian War, Britain issued this 1763 boundary along the Appalachians, limiting colonial expansion westward.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This post-Revolutionary idea encouraged women to educate their children, especially sons, to be informed and virtuous citizens of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
As settlers pushed into the American West in the 1800s, repeated planting on the same land and clearing native grasses led to this, prompting many farmers to move even farther west in search of fertile fields.
What is overcultivation (of the soil)?