Native American Early culture & Early Colonization
This large grain plant domesticated and farmed by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica allowed for the establishment of permanent settlements.
What is Maize?
Document declaring the 13 colonies independent from Britain and part of the new Sovereign United States of America.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
9/13 states had to do this for the Constitution to be enacted.
What is Ratify?
This American political party formed by Alexander Hamilton in 1792, favored a strong central Government.
What is the Federalist Party?
This 1820 compromise crafted by Henry Clay; prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 30.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the Americas and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocated for independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
What is Common Sense?
This agreement settled the issue over representatives and taxation of free and enslaved persons during the writing of the Constitution.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This person's Farewell address warned of political parties and permanent military alliances.
Who is George Washington?
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
These settlers fled the volatile political environment in England for Holland then went to the Americas, and maintained that their congregations, needed to be separated from the Church of England.
Who are the Pilgrims/Puritans?
A theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American.
That is The French and Indian War?
This rebellion was the first violent TAX protest in the United States after the Constitution was officially enacted, eventually put down by president George Washington, Himself
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
A series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 American Indians of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This idea established that people should have the right to vote to determine if slavery should be legal in their state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Legal system used by the Spanish crown during colonization to regulate Native-Americans and reward Spaniards.
What is the Encomienda System?
Era from which cultural and intellectual forces emphasized reason, analysis and individualism rather than traditional lines of authority.
What is the Enlightenment?
After scrapping the Articles of Confederation, the framers wrote a new Constitution in order to specifically strengthened this entity.
That is the Central Government?
Economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy.
This supreme Court Case, supported by Southerners, further increased Sectionalism tension by declaring that African American Slaves were not Citizens.
The first document to establish self-government in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A concept that deals with the role of American women and their responsibility to cultivate "civic virtue" in their children.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Often hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights
In addition to providing an economic boost by allowing the transport of goods at one-tenth the previous cost in less than half the previous time, this Canal led to the spark that started the Market Revolution.
What is the Erie Canal?
Taking place during the peak of the sectional crisis, this Military conflict significantly increased tensions as territory acquired from it ignited the debate over the expansion of slavery .
What is the Mexican American War?