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The boat trip across the Atlantic Ocean that carried slaves from Africa to America.
What was the Middle Passage?
This first successful colony in Virginia that was settled in May 1607.
What is Jamestown?
Popular term for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A law created by Congress in order to bring satisfaction to the Northern Manufacturers, yet alienated the Southern planters.
What is the Tariff of Abomination?
Political party founded in 1844 that was strongly anti-immigrant, specifically anti-Roman Catholic.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
The name of a group of Native Americans living in the Pacific Northwest of the current day United States.
Who is the Chinook?
He was claimed to be the person who began the Great Awakening.
Who was George Whitfield?
"Give me liberty or give me death."
Who is Patrick Henry?
The consequence of Britain attempting to take control of land bought by the US.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
President of Mexico during the Mexican-American war.
Who is Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna?
The Spanish labor system that granted a colonist in America the right to own an Indian slave for forced labor.
What was Encomienda?
War where the English aligned with a Native tribe’s enemy.
What was the Pequot War?
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Supreme Court decision that determined Congress' legislative power. It was the first and most important case of the Supreme Court on federal power. This led to the potential increase in national power.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Gave up claims to Texas above the Rio Grande river, gave California and New Mexico to the US, Guaranteed Mexicans living in ceded territory freedom of religion & protection of property, U.S. Paid: $15 million to Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A culture that had advanced canal systems that put many people to work whether it be maintaining it or building, prioritized crops and harvest season was a time of labor for most citizens, they were not advanced medically.
Who were the Hohokam?
English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who wished to leave the Church of England and form their own independent churches.
Who were the Separatists?
A law passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, attempted to take away the rights of colonies.
What is the Quebec Act?
Supreme Court Case that established their right to judicial review.
What is Murbury v. Madison?
Ex-Confederates who supported Reconstruction.
Who were Scalawags?
The foods of the New World during the Columbian Exchange.
What were corn, potatoes, beans, and cocoa beans?
Churches against the Great Awakening.
Who were the Old Lights?
Mexican cowboys in the West.
What are Vaqueros?
This was a common living area in the United States where people learned ;life lessons and gained mental strength and wisdom that would be able to serve them outside the farm.
What is Brook Farm?
Someone who was from the Northern states and went to the South in order to make money off of Reconstruction.
What was a Carpetbagger?