Miscellaneous
American acquisition of French territory that doubled the size of the United States and secured American control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
In the Spanish colonies, the grant to a Spanish settler of a certain number of Indian subjects, who would pay him tribute in goods and labor.
What is Encomienda system?
Founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, this group began within the Church of England and believed the Church of England should become more protestant. They fled persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts.
What are Puritans?
Supporters of the British during the American Revolution who did not favor a separation with England.
What are Loyalists?
Utilizing Morse Code, this allowed for faster communication over longer distances.
What is the telegraph.
Economic system whereby the government intervenes in the economy for the purpose of increasing national wealth.
What is mercantilism?
A network of sharing goods and resources between Africa, North America and Europe which involved the transportation of manufactured goods, raw materials and slaves.
What is triangular trade?
Otherwise known as members of the Religious Society of Friends, this group sought refuge from persecution in England and rejected earthly and religious hierarchies and denied the need for a mediator between God and people.
What are Quakers?
The written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A manufacturing system which uses standardized parts which are all identical and thus, interchangeable.
What are interchangeable parts?
The division of voter loyalies between two major political parties, resulting in the near exclusion of minor parties from seriously competing for a share of political power
What is the two-party system?
The exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops and people from the Old World to the New world following Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas
What is the Columbian exchange?
Individuals such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson combined philosophy, politics, economics and science to encourage people to value logic and reason.
What is Enlightenment?
Citizens who opposed the idea of one principle government and supported the idea of small, state governments.
What are Anti-Federalists?
This established the principle of judicial review—the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Established to handle the financial needs and requirements of the new central government of the newly formed United States.
What is the National Bank?
An agreement between Spain and Portugal establishing a new territorial boundary between the two empires running from pole to pole, west of the Cape Verde Islands.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
A period of religious and spiritual revival that swept through the American Colonies between the 1730s and 1770s. People like George Whitfield encouraged others to strive for individual piety and religious devotion.
What is the First Great Awakening?
A diplomatic crisis between France and the United States overseen by President John Adams in which French agents attempted to get a bribe and loans from US diplomats in exchange for an agreement that French privateers would no longer attack American ships.
What is the XYZ Affair?
Period from 1817-1823 in which the disappearance of the Federalists enabled the Republicans to govern in a spirit of seemingly nonpartisan harmony.
What is Era of Good Feelings?
Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, a route around the south of Africa and headed towards Asia was successfully completed. This movement was motivated by a desire for new markets and ongoing opposition to the Muslims.
What is Portuguese exploration?
Spearheaded by the conquistadors, the goals of this movement were to locate mineral wealth, convert Indians to Christianity and counter French and English colonization efforts.
What is Spanish Exploration of the Americas?
The settlements of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware had good farmland and produced grains for bread, ships, lumber and furs. Philadelphia and New York City were two major port cities.
What are the Middle Colonies?
A letter written to warn that the forces of geographical sectionalism, political factionalism, and interference by foreign powers in the nation's domestic affairs threatened the stability of the republic.
What is George Washington's Farewell Address?
A national economic plan put forth by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and the Whig party throughout the first half of the 19th century.
What is the American System?