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Vocab
Potpourri
100

This crop became the main staple of many Native American tribes. 

What is corn(maize)? 

100

This rebellion in Virginia resulted in the increase in black slavery and decrease in indentured servitude.

Bacon’s Rebellion

100

Give a precedent of Washington's farewell address....

Two Terms

Neutrality in Foreign Affairs

Avoid two party system

100

This SCOTUS case established judicial review.

What is Marbury v Madison?

100

The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. It had profound effects on both the Old and New Worlds, reshaping diets, economies, and populations.

What is The Columbian Exchange

100

This is a business owned by its investors, where each investor receives a share of the company's profits based on their investment.

What is a Joint-Stock Company

200

This type of farming involved planting corn, beans and squash all together.

What is Three Sister Farming?

200

The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).  

What are Democratic-Republicans?

200

HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence

Who is Thomas Paine?

200

This famous Transcendentalist writer inspired both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.  

What is Henry David Thoreau?

200

A series of religious revivals in the American colonies during the 18th century. It emphasized emotional religious experiences and individual piety over traditional church doctrines, significantly impacting American Protestantism and leading to the growth of new denominations.

What is The Great Awakening

200

The transatlantic trading network that carried goods and enslaved people between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

What is Triangle Trade

300

Of all the European nations who encountered American Indians, this one enjoyed probably the most cordial relationship through mutual understanding and gift-giving.

What is France

300

The diversified economy of this New England region relied primarily on these

fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce

300

A major defect in the national government established by the Articles of Confederation was that it lacked what?

The ability to tax

300

Head of the supreme court under Jefferson-Monroe, who opposed Democratic-Republican legislation, and enforced federalists policies (strong national government)

John Marshall

300

Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the states legislatures took the position that certain federal laws were unconstitutional. Set the precedent for state nullification 

What were the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

300

This economic plan proposed by Henry Clay aimed to promote American industry and infrastructure.  

What is the American System

400
Developed by Spanish to exploit Indian labor and gave settlers the right to use inhabitants for agriculture & mining.

What is Encomienda System

400

The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.

The French and Indian War/Seven Years War

400

What were the main events that led to the American Revolution? (must give two examples!)

Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party


400

This organization sought to make alcohol illegal. It had a very large female membership base.

What is the American Temperance Union?

400

A key U.S. foreign policy, declaring that the Western Hemisphere was closed to further European colonization and that any attempt by European powers to interfere in the Americas would be seen as a threat to U.S. security. The doctrine asserted U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere and became a cornerstone of American foreign policy.

What is The Monroe Doctrine 

400

This was the justification that Alexander Hamilton gave for creating the US Bank. Ironically enough his opponent, Thomas Jefferson, also used it to justify the Louisiana Purchase. 

What is the Elastic Clause

500

This was a form of economic nationalism that sought to increase the prosperity and power of the mother nation through restrictive trade practices. Its goal was to increase the supply of a state's gold and silver with exports rather than to deplete it through imports. 

What is mercantilism?

500

This individual openly promoted the idea of an individual personal relationship with God without the guidance of church leaders, and was later expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony

Anne Hutchinson

500

What contributed to the ratification of the Constitution?

Federalists promise to create a Bill of Rights, frustration over the limitations of the Articles of Confederation, lowering the required number of states to 9/13

500

The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.

What is the Indian Removal Act? (Trail of Tears)

500

The belief that women played an important role in teaching children to be virtuous citizens of the new American republic. This concept emerged after the American Revolution and underscored the importance of women in nurturing the principles of liberty and democracy at home.

What is Republican Motherhood

500

The continuing divide, economically, between the industrial north and the agrarian south in the early to mid 19th century is an example of this. 

What is Sectionalism

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