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This was the transfer of crops, diseases, and ideas across the Atlantic after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The cultivation of this became profitable in Jamestown.
What was tobacco?
This invention was the catalyst for the massive growth of slave labor in the American South.
What was the cotton gin?
Five men were shot by British troops after a crowd hurled rocks and snowballs at them.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This lowered the price of British Tea to make it cheaper than smuggled tea.
What was the Tea Act?
This early form of national government failed due to its all-around weakness.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
This quaker was the founder of Pennsylvania.
Who was William Penn?
This type of financial British colonial venture aimed at finding precious metals in the Americas.
What is a joint-stock company?
1. Don't get involved in European affairs, 2. Don't form political parties, 3. Don't fall into sectionalism.
What was George Washington's Farewell Address?
This political party favored agrarians rather than banks and wealthy merchants.
Who were the Democratic-Republicans?
This famous senator from Kentucky had a financial vision for the country and was also the Great Compromiser.
Who was Henry Clay?
This transportation innovation helped take crops from the Midwest through the Eerie Canal to New York State.
What was the steamboat?
This was the labor system applied by Spanish conquistadors based on Indigenous labor.
What was the encomienda system?
They spun homemade textiles to support boycotts against the British.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This was nicknamed the Tariff of Abominations.
What was the Tariff of 1828?
This European argued that governments should serve the people and not infringe upon their natural rights.
Who was John Locke?
The actions of this Lieutenant in the British army led to the eventual French and Indian War.
Who was George Washington?
With this, a bi-cameral Congress was set up made up of a House of Representatives and a Senate.
What was the Great Compromise?
This British colony was a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This midwestern region became highly disputed by the French and British due to its profitable fur trade.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This was the first representative assembly found in the colonies.
What was the House of Burgesses?
In this early 1800s factory system, young girls labored and lived in the textile mills.
What was the Lowell System?
(1) the Boston Port Bill, (2) the Massachusetts Government Act, (3) the Administration of Justice Act, and (4) the Quartering Act.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
She loaded up and fired canons during the Revolutionary War.
Who was Molly Pitcher?
The Pilgrims first settled in this European nation, but then later decided to colonize North America.
What was the Netherlands?
He was the Attorney General in Washington's cabinet.
Who was Edmund Randolph?
This treaty ended the Creek War - The war against the Red Sticks.
What was the Treaty of Fort Jackson?
This post-war "agreement" led to the cession of most of the Ohio territory by Indigenous tribes to the U.S. government.
What was the Treaty of Greenville?
She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
He wrote the Articles of Confederation.
Who was John Dickinson?