Period 1
(1492-1607)
(1492-1607)
For the Americas, one DEMOGRAPHIC impact of the Columbian Exchange
What is the decimation of the Indian population?
Settlers who established a British colony in VA during the early 17th century were primarily seeking this
What is to profit economically?
Tract that attacked the idea that England was the "mother country" of the American colonies
What is Common Sense?
The 19th century women's rights movement focused largely on obtaining this
What is suffrage?
Why many White Northerners opposed the new Fugitive Slave Act in the early 1850s
What are concerns over due process laws OR they could be jailed for refusing to help catch a runaway slave?
He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
For Europe, one major impact of the Columbian Exchange
What is population increase due to improved diets?
"We are entirely free, we are allies of the King of France, from whom we have received ... all sorts of assistance in our necessities, we love that monarch and are strongly attached to his interests."
The excerpt above from an Indian leader is evidence of this historical development in the mid-1700s
What is competition among European powers for Indian allies in North America?
the Confederation govt. was successful in resolving the problem of this
What is how to admit territories as states?
the growth of the national market economy in the antebellum period had these effects (2)
What are increasing economic specialization, emergence of national trading systems, start of a labor movement, the decline and demise of the domestic/cottage system, urbanization, etc.?
a significant result of this mid-1840s event was increased sectional tensions over slavery
What is the Mexican War?
The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election - the effect was this
What is the end of Congressional Reconstruction?
A drop in the Indian population from 10 million to c. 1-2 million had this effect
What is Europeans were able to gain control over native territory?
The ideas found in this document from 1620 contributed to the development of local representative assemblies in the British North American colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
"Therefore, guard against all encroachments upon your liberties so dearly purchased with the costly expense of blood and treasure."
-A Georgian, Gazette of the State of GA, Nov. 1787
The historical context of the quote above
What are debates over the ratification of the Constitution OR the proper relationship between the states and a central government?
Russian incursions in North America and rumors of a Spanish plan to reconquer parts of South America led to the promulgation of this in 1823
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Why Antietam is considered a turning point in the Civil War
What is it forestalled foreign recognition of the Confederacy AND/OR it led to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Section 7. . . . every civil officer shall, and every person may, arrest and carry back to his or her legal employer any freedman, free negro, or mulatto who shall have quit the service of his or her employer before the expiration of his or her term of service without good cause….
The above is an excerpt from one of these, passed after the Civil War ends
What are the Black Codes?
some attempts at evangelism, but generally tolerant of Indian culture (s) and focused on economic opportunities in what is today Canada
What is France?
One long-term result of these commercial regulations was the emergence of opposition that eventually morphed into an independence movement in the British North American colonies
What are the Navigation Acts?
Two events in the mid-1790s (one domestic, one foreign) that served to harden the distinctions between the emerging political factions/parties in the US
What are Jay's Treaty and the Whiskey Rebellion?
Antislavery advocates could cite this as a win, as it closed most of Louisiana territory to slavery
What is the Missouri Compromise?
the immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is it strengthened the moral cause of the Union?
In response to race riots and the election of former Confederates to federal office, Congress passed these which placed the former Confederate states (minus TN) under direct military rule, and set specific requirements for readmission
What are the 1867 Reconstruction Acts?
This Mississippian settlement of Cahokia in this modern midwestern state boasted a population in the thousands, with a highly developed social stratification system
What is Missouri?
Patterns of settlement in this colonial region led to the emergence of greater cultural and religious tolerance (name the colonies - 4 )
What are NY, PA, DE, NJ?
Why the 1800 Election is considered to be a "revolution" in American politics
What is the losing party stepped down peacefully?
"We, therefore, the people of South Carolina ... do declare and ordain ... that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress ... purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties ... on the importation of foreign commodities ... are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States ..."
The above excerpt provides historical context for this 1832-33 event
What is the Nullification Crisis?
In correct order, changes made by the Civil War & Reconstruction amendments
What is officially abolish slavery, grant Blacks US citizenship, and outlaw voting discrimination based on color?
“Since the surrender of the armies of the confederate States of America a little has been done toward establishing the Government upon true principles of liberty and justice ... [for] four million slaves.
We have unchained them, from the stake so as to allow them locomotion, provided they do not walk in paths which are trod by white men. . . . But in what have we enlarged their liberty of thought?
Thaddeus Stevens, House of Reps. speech, 1867
One piece of evidence that would REFUTE Stevens's claim that "little has been done" for the former slaves by 1867
What is the establishment of the Freedman's Bureau?