Units 1 & 2
Spread of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between Africa, Europe, and the America's
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Written by Thomas Paine; it urged the colonies to break away form Great Britain
What was Common Sense?
What was the Homestead Steel Strike?
Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S
What is the Red Scare?
He won the election of 1980.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Spanish system of granting land to colonists in the New World. This system exploited Native Americans and resources. Native American labor was replaced with African slave labor
What is the Encomienda System?
This closed down colonial expansion westward; it was the first measure to affect all thirteen colonies
What was the Proclamation (Line) of 1763?
Popular sovereignty would be used in the territory, slave trade was banned in Washington D.C., California was added as a free state, a more strict fugitive slave law was created.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s
What is the Progressive Era (Progressivism will also be accepted).
_________ believe in the need for traditional social values and a reduced role for government
Who are conservatives?
Relied on indentured servants and African slaves. Staple crops were tobacco and rice. Mostly made-up of single men.
What are the Chesapeake colonies?
An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
What was the Great Compromise?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans.
What was the New Deal?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Wrote "A Model on Christian Charity"; discusses a "City Upon a Hill"
Who was John Winthrop?
Henry Clay's plan to unify the American economy which focused on the Second Bank of the United States, Internal Improvements and Tariffs.
What was the American System?
In this African American reformer's "Atlanta Compromise Speech" he encouraged African Americans and whites to work together towards mutual progress and advised African Americans to focus on securing economic rights first
Who was Booker T. Washington?
A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional
What was Brown v. Board of Education
Renting of land to former slaves – limited economic opportunities to former slaves and poor whites in the south.
What is sharecropping?
During this war, a Native American village in Connecticut was attacked; 500 Indian women, men, and children were killed
What was the Pequot War? (Massacre at Mystic will also be accepted)
Immigrants from these two countries came to the US in large numbers in the 1830s and 1840s
What is Ireland and Germany?
This Act gave the president the power to divide Indian reservations into individual, privately owned plots
What was the Dawes (Severalty) Act?
A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met (the first one took place in Greensboro).
What is the sit-in movement?/What is a sit-in?
During this event, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?