Period 1
(1451-1607)
(1451-1607)
Historians refer to the causes of Spanish colonization as the 3 G's.
What is Gold, Glory, and God?
These Puritans are the most famous group of Separatists who believed that the Church of England could not be reformed and fled to the New World to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This economic system describes how European nations sought to increase their wealth and power by maximizing the exports, and minimizing the imports of its colonies between the 15th and 18th centuries.
What is mercantilism?
This was the "greatest accomplishment" of Thomas Jefferson's presidency
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These are the three branches of government
What are 1) legislative, 2) executive, 3) judicial?
This institution allowed the Spanish government to "commend" or give Native Americans to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them.
What is the encomienda system?
Passed in the "Catholic Haven," this law allowed all Christian faiths to exist in Maryland colony.
What is the Act of Toleration (1649)?
This concept during the American Revolutionary era considered women to be a custodian of civic virtue responsible for upholding the morality of her husband and children.
What is the Republican Motherhood?
This nickname was given to John Adam's late judicial appointments
What are midnight judges?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
This reform-minded friar wrote The Destruction of the Indies in 1545 to chronicle the awful fate of the Native Americans and to protest Spanish policies in the New World, especially his horror regarding the catastrophic effects of disease on native people and how they were treated.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
This edict made by King George III after the conclusion of the Seven Years War declared that the American colonists could not settle west of the the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This document concluded the end of the first presidency by warning against the dangers of "permanent alliances" with other nations and arguing that new nations should only forge alliances on a temporary basis in extraordinary circumstances.
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
This Supreme Court case established precedent for judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This was the line that divided slavery in the Missouri Compromise
What is the 36-30 line?
The Incas and the Aztecs were known for their stunningly sophisticated civilizations and agricultural practices, which were primarily based on this crop.
What is maize?
This was a large movement which swept through the British North American colonies, resulting in greater religious expression.
What is the Great Awakening?
Within the First Party System, this group advocated for a strong central government as a check on the "tyranny of the majority, especially after the horrors of Shays' Rebellion and Robespierre's Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.
Who are the Federalists?
This abduction of American merchants was a primary cause of the War of 1812
What is impressment?
This was the primary goal of English colonization of the Americas
Was it economic opportunity?
This 1680 Native American revolt against Spanish rule expelled the Spanish from modern day New Mexico for a period of 12 years and caused Spain to become more accommodating to Native Americans.
What is the Pueblo Revolt? What is Pope's Rebellion?
These laws reflected the intensifying colonial rivalries of the 17th century as England attempted to prevent colonial trade with other countries outside of its dominion.
What are the Navigation Laws?
This 18th century philosophical movement inspired the American Revolution through its advocacy of the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
What is the Enlightenment?
These are the three components of Henry Clay's American System
What are 1) protective tariffs, 2) national bank, 3) internal improvements?
This Enlightenment philosopher greatly inspired the founding principles of the Revolutionary War, and was a direct influence on the drafting of the Declaration of Independence due to Thomas Jefferson's time abroad in France.
Who is John Locke?