Pre-Colonial Life
Intercontinental trade routes exchanged goods, diseases, and ideas in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This belief held that the U.S. was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1676 revolt exposed class tensions between frontier settlers and elites in Virginia.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
He dominated the oil industry through horizontal integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This political party formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson.
What is the Whig Party?
System granting Spanish settlers the right to extract forced labor from natives.
What is the encomienda system?
This 1820 compromise maintained a balance between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This rebellion of farmers protesting debt in 1786–87 exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This law banned Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This 1830 law authorized the removal of Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This system, in which colonies existed to benefit the mother country, is best known for emphasizing exporting more than importing.
What is mercantilism?
This economic and social transformation altered gender roles and increased sectionalism.
What is the Market Revolution?
This 1794 rebellion tested federal power and proved the effectiveness of the new Constitution.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This movement promoted Protestant values and social reform in cities.
What is the Social Gospel?
This religious revival inspired major 19th-century reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Trade route connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas, moving goods and enslaved people.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
The Lowell System employed these individuals in early textile factories.
Who are young women (Lowell girls)?
Native resistance to colonization included violent and diplomatic strategies. The 1680 rebellion in New Mexico is a key example.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This Scottish immigrant used vertical integration to dominate the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This nativist political party emerged in response to increased immigration in the 1840s and 1850s.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
These three motivations guided Spain’s conquest and colonization of the Americas.
What are gold, God, and glory?
This 1803 deal doubled U.S. territory and challenged Jefferson’s strict constitutional view.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1859 failed raid on a federal arsenal was intended to spark a widespread slave rebellion.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry?
This term describes journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.
What are muckrakers?
This doctrine warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?