Period 1 (1491-1607)
This alliance of Mesoamerican city states were known for their ritual sacrifice and stunning capital city.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This religious movement stressed conformity, strong work ethic, and tight-knit communities across the New England colonies.
What are the Puritans?
This law decreed the western boundary of British colonial settlement to be the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose was to prevent the spread of British colonists.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
What were the Articles of Confederation?
What was the Federalist Party?
These three staple foods were the primary crops grown by American Indians, sometimes called "three-sisters farming" by American historians.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This insurrection united a plethora of indentured servitude, poor whites, and African slaves, redefining racial culture in the English colonies.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
this Act dissolved the Massachusett's government, closed Boston ports, and led to the First Continental Congress.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This uprising in Massachusetts in 1786 led to the creation of the Constitution.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
the forced enlistment of sailors on the high seas
What was impressment?
This disease wiped out the majority of American Indians through the exploration and colonization period.
What is smallpox?
These colonial region grew primarily tobacco as its cash crop
What were the Chesapeake colonies?
This tax ultimately created the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and the idea of "no taxation without representation".
What was the Great Compromise?
This conflict was created by impressment, Indian conflicts on the frontier, and the continued presence of the British in the Ohio River Valley.
What was the War of 1812?
This method of exchange brought population growth to Europeans and disease to American Indians
What was the Columbian Exchange?
These two puritans were kicked out of their colonies for challenging Puritan religious beliefs and conformity.
Who were Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams?
This CONFLICT began over territorial disputes in the Ohio River valley and the fur trade in the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois (1754-1763).
What was the French and Indian War?
this faction during the Constitutional debates believed in more state power and a weaker national government.
Who/What were the antifederalists?
This was the historic boundary on the east coast that demarcates the free North and the slave South.
What is the Mason Dixon Line/36 30 Line?
This plantation system was employed by the Spanish Empire to settle the New World.
What is the encomienda?
This colonial region grew primarily grains, fruit, and cattle and were known as the "breadbasket colonies".
What were the Middle colonies?
This pamphlet came out before the Declaration of Independence stating that it was not logical to have a tiny island control a large continent, and that righteous governments came with the consent of the people.
What was Common Sense (Thomas Paine's)?
this idea was when women were expected to teach sons and daughters civic and republican values to preserve the nation for future generations.
What was Republican Motherhood?
This movement created social effects and reforms in society in the mid 1800s
What was the 2nd Great Awakening?