Period 1
Reason for Exploration
Population increase
Ploitical unfication
Desire for luxury good
Purpose of the French colonization
trade
mercantilist system
maintain a Favorable Balance of Trade
French and Indian War
Part of the "The Seven Years' War"
Cause: Territorial dispute in the Ohio River Valley between the French and the British caused this war to begin in 1754. The war ended in 1763 with the signing of the Peace of Paris
Effect: Spain ceded Florida to the British, French were ousted from NA continent and Spain were given control of the land west of the Mississippi, Ohio River Valley was grants to the British.
Manifest Destiny
Idea from John O' Sullivan
A notion that American have a God(Providence) given right to have a nation that extends from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
European Conquest and Labor System
Cause: Technology, New Financing, Competition
Effect: Population Impacts, Encomienda Labor, Enslaved Africans, Casta System
English Colonization
New economic, and they also need a land
Pursue religious freedom and improve living condition
Navigation Acts
Required merchants to engage in trade with English colonies exclusively in English ships
Salutary Neglect
the unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade.
Jame K Polk
Believer of the Manifest Destiny, wants America to annex bot Oregon and Texas and CA
Motives for Exploration ("3 Gs"):
Gold: Economic wealth through trade and resource extraction.
Glory: National competition and personal fame.
God: Spread of Christianity (especially Catholicism).
Puritan
protestant who were unhappy with the theology and the stricture of the church england
Pueblo Revolt
Pueblo sought to purge the Spanish from their territory
Sugar Act
Stamp Act of 1765
Currency Act
1.Taxes on coffee and wine and various luxury items
2.Taxes on all paper items produced in colonies.
3.that prohibited the colonies from issuing or using paper money as legal tender.
Cause: Annexation of Texas, Disputed Border,Claims against Mexico
Effect: signing of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalco, it specify that all Mexican living in the territory would be grants U.S citizenship.
First colonization America
Spanish
Slave Trade Act
1788, limited the number of enslaved people
Metacom's War
king Philip's war in 1675
British must force out due to their action
destroy ancestral and taking away the land
Townsheld Acts(1767)
levid taxes on items that import to the colonies
Free soil Movement
Keep slavery from spending into any newly acquired territories
Joint stock company
A limited liability organization in which a plurality of investors pool their money to fund a venture
Mercantilism
dominant economic system in europe
colonial slave law
-Legally defined African Laborers as chattel
-Slavery was made a PERPETUAL institution that was passed from one generation to next
-These laws became harsher and harsher
Boston Massacre (1770)
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Emancipation Proclamation
declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."