The Spanish labor system that required Natives be converted to Catholicism in exchange for their enslavement
What is the encomienda system?
A philosophical movement originating in Europe that expressed ideas of reason and science and sparked new thoughts in the British colonies
What is the Enlightenment?
Colonists who supported Great Britain before and during the American Revolution.
What is a Loyalist?
The religious revival that sparked a series of reform movements like abolitionism, education, and women's rights
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Laws passed in the Reconstruction South to limit the social, political, and economic freedom of newly freed Blacks
What were black codes? (or Jim Crow)
The Spanish priest who criticized the encomienda system and recommended slave labor be shifted to Africans
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
The 1676 event led by frontier farmers who were upset by the policies of Jamestown's governor; ultimately led to a shift toward slavery
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The two warnings Washington delivered in his Farewell Address (must name both)
What is avoiding entangling foreign alliances and avoiding political parties?
The election that John Quincy Adams won after a supposed deal with Speaker Henry Clay; Jackson lost and attacked the election
What is the Corrupt Bargain/Election of 1824?
1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The Native American fixed agricultural settlement that centered around mound building and was located in present-day St. Louis, Missouri
What is Cahokia?
A governing document for Plymouth Colony signed by 41 men; the first agreement for self-government in America
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The end of this war led to the beginning of a negative relationship between the colonists and Great Britain
What was the French and Indian War?
The system designed to modernize the economy through tariffs, the National Bank, and internal improvements.
What is the American System?
The election of Rutherford B. Hayes that was part of a decision to allow Republicans to take office and in turn end Reconstruction
What is the Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877?
The leader of the Native tribe who was defeated by the Spaniard conquistador Hernan Cortes.
Who is Montezuma?
Ministers who took part in the revivalist, emotional religious tradition pioneered by George Whitefield during the Great Awakening.
Who are the New Lights?
The event that is seen as a turning point showing the need for a stronger gov than the Articles of Confederation; a group of farmers in Western MA shut down the courts and the gov didn't have enough strength to shut the revolt down
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The 3 causes of the War of 1812 (need all 3)
What are British-provoked Indian attacks, neutral trading rights, and impressment?
The 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican American War and granted much of the American Southwest to the US
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
List two things that were transferred from the New World to the Old World during the Colombian Exchange
Laws that required colonists to ship certain products exclusively to England
What were the Navigation Acts?
Jefferson and Madison's anonymous response to the Alien and Sedition Acts that argued that the state governments could nullify federal laws that they deemed unconstitutional
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
The meeting of Federalists at the end of the War of 1812 where participants debated about changing the Constitution to support state's rights that ultimately led to the death of the Federalist Party
What is the Hartford Convention?
U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of assimilating Native to be responsible farmers in the white man's image.
What is the Dawes Act?