1492-1607
This was the place Christopher Columbus landed.
What is Bahamas?
Formed the colony of Pennsylvania. Was a Quaker.
William Penn
The war between the French and their Indian allies. Another name for the French and Indian War.
7 Years War
the compromise that ended slave trade in D.C.
The Compromise of 1850
The treaty that ended WW1. It required Germany to pay huge war reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The racial hierarchy that was used by the Spanish on the Native Americans.
What is the Encomienda system?
In 1630, he led about a thousand Puritans to America and founded Boston and several other towns.
John Winthrop
An Act passed by Parliament to get revenue and placed a tax on all printed goods
Stamp Act
a compromise law in 1854 that suspended the Missouri Compromise and left it to voters to determine whether they would be slave or free states. the law exacerbated sectional tensions when voters can to blows over the question of slavery in Kansas.
Kansas Nebraska Act
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
A joint-stock company granted by King James I to colonize and govern in 1607.
Virginia Company
an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part
Bacon's Rebellion
A radical revolutionary group that wanted change. Started Riots and burned things to incite change.
Sons of Liberty
aka the American Party; major political force from 1854-1855; objective: to extend period of naturalization, undercut immigrant voting strengths, and keep aliens in their place
Know Nothing Party
Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew the Nationalists
What is Mao Zedong?
A Spanish colonist who was a historian and social reformer. Believed they should be treated as at least human.
Bartolomé de las Casas
representatives who met in 1754 in New York to develop a treaty with Native Americans and plan the defense of the colonies against France. It ended with little accomplished. They sent the Iroquois chieftains away loaded with gifts in return for halfhearted promises of support.
Albany Congress
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War including the year
Treaty of Paris 1783
Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War, but southern senators, led by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, defeated the measure in 1846 and 1847. It Failed
Wilmont Provisio
This was part of President Johnson's war on poverty. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education
What is the Great Society?
Capital of the Aztec Empire, located where Mexico City is today. 150K people lived there when the conquistadors came.
Tenochtitlan
In 1777, American forces beat the British in a battle. A major turning point to the war.
Battle of Saratoga
Uprising in 1786 that was lead by farmers in Massachusetts protesting taxation.
Shays rebellion
Supreme Court decision that stated three things: Blacks were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal courts; Because a slave is their master's property, they can be taken into any territory and held there in slavery; Congress had no power to ban slavery from the territories
Dred Scott Decision
Vietnamese leader who is responsible for ousting first the French, then the United States from his country. Supported by both communist China and the Soviet Union he achieved his goal of a united communist Vietnam in 1975
What is Ho Chi Minh?