Period 1
This is arguably the most important crop cultivated by Native Americans and supported economic development and settlement
What is maize?
This region of the British colonies grew prosperous exporting tobacco - a labor-intensive product initially cultivated by white, mostly male indentured servants and later by enslaved Africans.
What is the Chesapeake?
The war that prompted the end of salutary neglect in the British colonies and is often seen as a major turning point toward the American Revolution.
What is the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)?
Henry Clay's economic program, which advocated high tariffs and a national bank.
What is the American System?
What is the Market Revolution?
These are the 3 "G's" of European motivation for exploration
Gold, Glory, and God
This region of the British colonies was initially settled by Puritans and developed small towns with family farms and achieved a thriving mixed economy of agriculture and commerce.
What are the New England colonies?
He wrote the famous Common Sense, which outlined the basic principles for the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
Jefferson's major expense during his Presidency which presented a conflict over his strict interpretation of the Constitution
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
System in which many young women were recruited to work in textile mills in the North
What is the Lowell System?
This brought new crops to Europe from the Americas, stimulating European population growth, and new sources of mineral wealth, which facilitated the European shift from feudalism to capitalism
What is the Colombian Exchange?
This movement took place in the 1730s and 1740s and was characterized by fervent expressions of religious feeling among masses of people.
What is the (first) Great Awakening?
This called on women to teach values within a family and granted women a new importance in American political culture
What is republican motherhood?
Diplomatic and foreign affair policy that warned against further European encroachment in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1820 law prohibited slavery above the 36o30' line and admitted two states, one of which was Maine, to keep the balance of slave/free states in the Senate
What is the Missouri Compromise?
In this system, Spanish colonial economies used Native American labor to support plantation-based agriculture and extract precious metals and other resources
What is the encomienda system?
This war united many Native American tribes in southern New England against English settlers, resulted in thousands of deaths, and ended most Native American resistance in New England.
What is King Philip's (or Metacom's) War?
These were passed by Federalists who wanted to restrict the power of immigrants and Democratic-Republicans; they raised the years required for immigrants to qualify for citizenship and made it a crime to criticize the President or Congress.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Court case which established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This election, known as the "corrupt bargain", saw the election of John Q. Adams to the presidency, rather than Jackson, who had won the popular vote.
What is the Election of 1824?
Improvement in maritime technology and more organized methods for conducting international trade in companies such as these, helped drive changes to economies in Europe and the Americas.
What are joint-stock companies?
A famous revolt in New Mexico resulting from harsh efforts to Christianize Native Americans.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
What is the "necessary and proper" or "elastic" clause?
Court case which established federal control of interstate commerce
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
One of the largest and arguably most important construction projects of the Market Revolution, it linked the economies of western farms and eastern cities.
What is the Erie Canal?