Period 1
Spanish exploitation of Native Americans
What is the encomienda system?
Revolt to object unequal rights by former indentured servants, led to the further hardening of the line between indentured servant and lifetime slave
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
A significant motivation to strengthen federal system
What is Shays' Rebellion?
publisher of The Liberator, which supported immediate emancipation of slaves, northern secession, & Women's rights
Who is WL Garrison?
Land concessions as a result of this reignite the slavery debate in the late 1840s
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
demands for commodities such as sugar and silver led to a corresponding increase in this practice
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Goods from Europe
Slaves from Africa
Raw material from the New World
What is the Triangular Trade?
Colonial reps. meet in Philadelphia to denounce Intolerable Acts, establish a intercolonial non-importation known as 'The Association'
What is the First Continental Congress?
Largely given credit for:
1. Compromise Tariff which ended the Nullification Crisis
2. The American System - Protective Tariff, National Bank #2, & internal improvement funding
3. MO Compromise
Who is Henry Clay?
Though narrow, President Tyler took Polk's victory in the 1844 election as a mandate from the American people to do this
What is annex Texas?
created as a result of the interactions between Europeans, Africans, and Indians in Spanish Colonial America
What is the Casta System?
largest slave revolt of the colonial period, led the South Carolina colonial assembly to combine their slave laws into a single code
What is the Stono Rebellion?
the "Twitter Post" which advocated separation from England, Jan 1776
What is Common Sense?
The Americas are closed to the colonization business (except for what they still possessed at the time)
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Promoted Western settlement (and RR expansion) - gave 160 acres to anyone who would farm it for 5 yrs
What is the Homestead Act?
opposed harsh treatment of Indians in Spanish America, though he had started his career as a conquistador
Who is de las Casas?
Certain Goods shipped from New World can only go to England, and must be carried in English or American (colonial) ships
What are the Navigation Acts?
Largely a response to French attempts to influence Americans to support them in their struggle against Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars
What is Washington's Neutrality Proclamation?
Jackson's closure of the 2nd National Bank is sometimes blamed for this economic downturn (which politically hurt Van Buren)
What is the 1837 Panic?
Hardened Northern antislavery attitudes, its popularity in England may also have prevented their govt. from recognizing the CSA during the Civil War
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Treaty between Spain and Portugal that:
1. established a line of demarcation in the Atlantic Ocean
2. gave lands west of the line went to Spain and those to the east to Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
concepts included religious tolerance, natural law, progress, constitutional government, etc.
What is the Enlightenment?
the successful suppression of this validated the authority of the federal government and set a precedent for future enforcement of federal laws
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
his invention allowed farmers to plow through tough, clumpy soil more easily, leading to significantly increased crop yields and food availability
Who is John Deere?
Three terms of the 1850 Compromise
What the Fugitive Slave Act, slave trade banned in Washington, popular sovereignty for Utah and New Mexico Territories, CA becomes a free state, etc.?