Unit 1/2
These two Spanish labor systems granted conquistadors control over Native American/Aztec/Incan villages.
What are the encomienda and mita systems?
This 1763 British proclamation restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachians after the 7-Years War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1823 presidential statement/policy warned European powers against further interference in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This person led a raid on a federal arsental in Harpers Ferry, VA, aimed to arm slaves but ended with his capture and execution. It fanned the flames for the Civil War.
Who is John Brown?
What is rowing (where an oar gets stuck in the water)?
This 1739 slave revolt in South Carolina led to harsher slave codes across the South
What is the Stono Rebellion?
These 1774 punitive laws closed Boston's port and revoked Massachusetts's charter.
What are the Intolerable // Coercive Acts?
Henry Clay's early 19th century economic plan, called the American System, featured these three pillars in an effort to interconnect the US and help it become more self-sufficient.
What are high tariffs (and public land prices), preservation of the national bank, and internal infrastructure improvements?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford // The Dred Scott Decision?
This type of word is formed from a verb and functions like an adjective or a noun. (eg gone, pushed, been, done, eaten)
What is a participle?
This city was the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, known as a center of culture and trade.
What is Cahokia?
George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address had these two main themes (that we learned in class).
What are neutrality // foreign policy and political parties?
This 1814-15 secret meeting was a failure and led to the dissolution of the Federalist Party and therefore Republican political dominance.
What is the Hartford Convention (spoiled by news of victory, treaty of Ghent, made Federalists look like traitors)
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This person led a revolt in 1676 in Virginia because of economic distress, class conflict, and failure of the government's protection along the frontier.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon? // What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This 1803 Supreme Court decision established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The 1800 Quasi-war with France arose mainly from these two events/scandals regarding foreign policy.
What are the XYZ Affair and the Citizen Genet Affair?
This 1854 law effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing popular sovreignty to decide slave status.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Facebook was originally limited to students at this university and required an official .edu email address to join.
What is Harvard?
This 1620 Pilgrim agreement established majority-rule self-government for the Plymouth colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1754 plan was proposed by Benjamin Franklin and called for a council with power to levy taxes and raise troops. It was rejected.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This 1848 women's rights meeting produced the Declaration of Sentiments (after the Dec. of Independence).
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
In 1877, this political event ended Reconstruction and involved Rutherford B. Hayes promising to withdraw federal troops from the South.
What is the Corrupt Bargain (I guess you could accept Compromise of 1877).
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in the US acquisition of California and some southwestern territories.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?