Period 1
Reasons for European colonization
The Chesapeake economy was based upon this crop.
What is tobacco?
What is salutary neglect?
This event more than doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The primary cause of sectional conflict during the 1850s.
What is the expansion of slavery into new territories?
System of trade between Europe, Africa and the New World in which slaves, raw materials and finished goods were exchanged.
What is the Atlantic System/Triangular Trade?
This colony was a proprietary colony founded to be a haven for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This was a controversial tax on paper that led to widespread protests throughout the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
This event led to the development of new religions like the LDS movement, new ideas like transcendentalism and new reform movements like abolition.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This ruled that slaves legally purchased could be taken anywhere in the United States and that Black Americans could never be citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
The primary labor system of the Spanish Empire
What is the Encomienda system?
A group of Evangelical pastors that objected to intellectual sermons and preferred sermons that were more emotional and called for people to have personal relationships with God. Ex. Jonathan Edwards
Who are the New Lights?
The primary reason for American victory in the War for Independence.
What is French/European support?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This wartime order changed the meaning of the Civil War and altered Union goals for victory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
European nation that had the best relationship with Native Americans due to their desire to trade rather than conquer.
Who are the French?
British laws restricting the trade of colonies; colonies could only buy and sell products to the British -- largely ignored by the colonists.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Group of individuals who argued in favor of the Articles of Confederation and against the Constitution on the grounds that the Constitution gave too much federal power.
Who are the Antifederalists?
A movement that objected to the expansion of slavery on economic principles, but rejected the idea that Black Americans were equal to white Americans.
What is the Free Soil Movement?
This amendment overturned Dred Scott and granted citizenship to all individuals born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The speech given in Boston by Puritan minister John Winthrop that was a forerunner to ideas like Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism.
What is the "City on a Hill" Speech?
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Disagreements between Jefferson and his followers and Hamilton and his followers eventually evolved into this.
What is the First Party System/Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?
The American System developed by Henry Clay and supported by the Whig Party argued for these three things.
What is the Bank of the US, internal improvements, and tariffs?
This disastrous law led to the outbreak of violence due to popular sovereignty as well as the formation of the Republican party.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?