Native American Regions
This group were hunters, gatherers, and fishers. 75% of their diet consisted of fat to keep them warm under the cold, harsh conditions of the north.
Who were the Arctic Indians?
This event in Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787 made Congress realize that the Articles of Confederation were too weak.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
This man formed a system that involved young, unmarried women to work in textile mills, known as the Lowell System.
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
This group of laws led to the sharecropping system, segregation, and a restriction to voting rights in the south.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
This religion believes that God created the universe, but that he does not intervene with life.
What is Deism?
This group lived in clay houses and cave dwellings in what is now known as the Mesa Verde.
Who were the Southwest Indians?
This person had a great impact on the role of technology by inventing the cast steel plow.
Who was John Deere?
This invention by Eli Whitney separated the seeds from the fibers in cotton.
What was the cotton gin?
This massacre took place on Easter Sunday of 1873, resulting in 150 estimated deaths.
What was the Colfax Massacre?
This man criticized religion by claiming it was superstitious in his writing “The Age of Reason”.
Who was Thomas Paine?
This group of hunters and gatherers rotated their fields and lived in longhouses.
Who were the Northeast Indians?
This event resulted in many new inventions and reshaped America’s values, health, entertainment, living arrangements, time, gender roles, education, and agriculture.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
This form of transportation by boats was slow, expensive to construct, and depended on geography.
What were canals?
This era was due to a 25%-30% unemployment rate that led to an economic depression in 1873.
What was the Panic of 1873?
This man was a slave who believed that he was chosen by God to destroy human bondage, leading a slave uprising in 1831.
Who was Nat Turner?
This group is most famous for their settled communities, building mounds, and establishing Cahokia City.
Who were the Southeast Indians?
This event resulted in the formation of the Continental Congress, greater military force, and the Intolerable Acts.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This man created the first water powered cotton mill in the United States.
Who was Samuel Slater?
This term referred to Andrew Johnson's plan after the Civil War consisting of quick readmission of southern states and allowing former confederate leaders to remain in office.
What was "Rapid Reconstruction"?
This movement caused a decline in alcohol consumption from 7 gallons in 1820 to 3 gallons in 1840.
What was the Temperance Movement?
This group of migrating bison-hunters lived in tepees.
Who were the Plains Indians?
This event during the first half of the 19th century resulted in the spread of disease and the decline in life expectancy, but allowed for quicker and easier travelling.
What was the Transportation Revolution?
This steamboat was invented by Robert Fulton and could travel upstream.
What was "The Clermont"?
This party funded the Freedmen's Bureau and passed 3 amendments: the 13th, 14th, and 15th.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This big figure in the second great awakening practiced law, but after having a religious experience he went on to lead revivals along the Erie Canal.
Who was Charles Finney?