APUSH 1
This crop was the staple crop for producing large population centers in the Americas pre-European contact.
What is corn/maize?
What document established self-government in Plymouth Colony?
The Mayflower Compact
His pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Thomas Paine or Common Sense
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Eli Whitney invention that increased slavery
cotton gin
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
Great Plains tribes' main food source was...
What is Buffalo?
Name of the predominant religious group in MA.
Who are the Puritans?
Head of the Supreme Court under Jefferson-Monroe, who opposed Democratic-Republican legislation, and enforced federalist policies (strong national government)
Who is John Marshall?
This conflict led to a brief period of nationalistic fervor, and helped the U.S. gain respect abroad.
What is the War of 1812?
This Supreme Court Decision determined that slaves were not citizens protected by the Constitution.
These laws, primarily in the South, enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jim Crow laws
What is the Aztec?
Which colony was founded for religious freedom by Roger Williams?
Rhode Island
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
The number amendment that guarantees the rights of citizens born in the US.
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Plessy v Ferguson
The economic system that colonial powers used to create one-sided trade relationships with their colonies.
President who vetoed the national bank, voice of the common man, and pushed through the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This SCOTUS case established judicial review and gives the supreme court its power.
What is Marbury v Madison?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
What did the Transcontinental Railroad connect?
The East Coast and West Coast
Native American lifestyles were highly adapted to their...
What is their Environment?
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
What is The French and Indian War/Seven Years War?
British policy of non-enforcement of trade laws. Its end meant tighter British control and sparked colonial resistance.
Salutary Neglect
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
What is the Indian Removal Act? (Trail of Tears)
This SCOTUS case established the "separate but equal" ruling that would inspire many Jim Crow laws.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
What system trapped many African Americans in debt after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
The name for the term of the goods, ideas, and diseases that were transferred between the New and Old Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This woman was exiled from the MA Bay Colony for her belief that women should have a voice in the church.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This event showed the federal government's inability to respond to economic unrest or maintain order, prompting calls for a new constitution.
Shay's Rebellion
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’
Missouri Compromise
The name for a person who did not want slavery to expand into the newly acquired territories in the West.
What is a Free Soiler?
What philosophy justified survival of the fittest in business?
Social Darwinism
The term or name for the three crops that grew well together that provided Native Americans a strong diet.
What is the Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, Squash)?
System of labor in which a company or individual paid a person's passage to America in return for a contract of repayment through labor (usually up to seven years).
Indentured Servitude
The name of the compromise that counted part of the slave population towards a state's population for representatives in the Federal Government.
3/5ths Compromise
Nickname for Monroe's presidency that reflected a rising sense of nationalism (1817-1825).
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
The name of the man who was seen as an anti-slavery martyr by the North but a terrorist to slavery in the South.
Who is John Brown?
This is the exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclude competition
Monopoly
The name of the event where a Native American people revolted against the Spanish due to Spanish assimilation practices in the Southwestern United States.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Name of the rebellion that created the idea of race-based slavery in America and stoked tension between farmers and elite members of the colonies
Bacon's Rebellion
It forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachians to avoid conflict with Natives. Colonists defied it, seeing it as British interference.
Proclamation of 1763
Name name for the evolving infrastructure, economy, and industry in the United States during the first half of the 1800s.
The year of the election that would lead to the end of Reconstruction.
What is 1876?
Name 3 technology advances during Period 6:
Expansion of the railroad
Electricity
Steel production
Packaged foods
Cable cars - transportation