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The exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This specific group of people in England would have most likely supported the Navigation Acts.
Who were the English mercantilists?
This conflict between France and Great Britain lasted from 1754 to 1763.
What was the Seven Years War or the French and Indian War?
His election reintroduced the two-party system. He was the first "president of the people."
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Crop failures and revolutions in Europe led to
What was the sharp increase of immigration after 1845?
a system where Spanish adventurers and settlers were granted the legal right to extract forced labour from indigenous tribal chiefs in the Americas colonies of the Spanish Empire
What was the encomienda system?
the view of the Native American by the New England colonists by the mid- to late 1600s.
What was crude and ungodly?
On July 2, 1777, Vermont ________ _______, which influenced other Northern colonies to do the same thing gradually over time.
What was abolished slavery?
the Democratic-Republican candidate, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, defeated the Federalist Party candidate, incumbent president John Adams. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership. This is known as
What was the "Revolution of 1800"?
the unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War
The Wilmot Proviso
the symbol of sustenance, the staff of life and is an important symbol of many tribes
What was corn?
the immediate effect of the emergence of the tobacco economy in the Chesapeake region on the Native Americans
What was Loss of land due to encroachments by tobacco farmers?
This is another group in the colonies who was inspired by American colonists’ declaration of independence from Britain
Who were the enslaved Africans?
John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, McCullough v. Maryland, Worcester v. Georgia, Gibbons v. Ogden, Dartmouth College v. Woodward
What were Supreme Court decisions that established the primacy of the judiciary in determining the meaning of the Constitution and asserted that federal laws took precedence over state laws?
The Compromise of 1850 included these 5 parts.
What was the admission of California as a "free state," the provision for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, the established boundary between Texas and the United States, the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and the amended Fugitive Slave Act?
an example of the government's role in regulating business, which aimed to prevent monopolies and promote competition
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
the social attitude of the Chesapeake colonists, which most enabled them to establish perpetual slavery of African people
What was a strong belief in European racial and cultural superiority?
An extremely popular pamphlet that outlined the pro-war reasons against Britain in language that the common person could understand and agree with with. It was instrumental in getting the public on board with the war.
What was Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"?
South Carolina declared that the 1829 and 1832 Tariffs were unconstitutional and thus null and void when it passed this
What is The Ordinance of Nullification?
This case ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
You name both parties to get the 400 points.
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This corrupt New York politician was raking in millions of dollars from bribery, extortion and nepotism, and skimming off the top. He doled out thousands of jobs and lucrative contracts as patronage, and he expected favors, bribes, and kickbacks in return. Some of that money was distributed to judges for favorable rulings.
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
This war took place in southern New England from 1675 to 1676. It was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.
What was King Philip's War—also known as the First Indian War or Metacom's Rebellion?
Act of the congress of Confederation, established the first organized territory of the U.S. Also established the precedent that the federal government would be sovereign and expand westward with the admission of new states, rather than the expansion of the existing states. It provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. Slavery was forever outlawed from the lands of the Northwest Territory, freedom of religion and other civil liberties were guaranteed, the resident Indians were promised decent treatment, and education was provided for.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Building tensions in the United States during the 1800s that led to secession were caused by these three issues:
What were the institution of slavery, states' rights and tariffs?
Name the 3 Reconstruction Amendments and what they did.
What was the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States, the 14th Amendment that granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws, and the 15th Amendment that gave all men the right to vote?