America's Begginings
1st permanent English settlement in present day U.S.
What is Jamestown?
This document replaces the Articles of Confederation.
What is the constitution?
These were slave-holding states that did not seceded from the Union.
What are border states?
The Transcontinental Railroad connected the country, bringing changes in these three areas.
What are economic, political, and social effects?
This document served as America's 1st constitution but was replaced due to weaknesses.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Christopher Columbus embarked on his voyage to search for this.
What are the new trade routes to Asia?
This agreement at the Constitutional Convention created a two-house legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
This proclamation declared that enslaved people in Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This law banned Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This document declared independence from Great Britain and outlined unalienable rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This term describes the portion of the Triangular Trade where enslaved Africans were transported from Africa to America.
What is the Middle Passage?
The 4th amendment protects against this kind of government action.
What are unreasonable searches and seizures?
The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in this region.
What is the northern part of Louisiana Territory about the 36030' line?
These terms describe reasons people leave their home countries & reasons they move to a new one.
What are push pull factors?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War and significantly affected Native Americans.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This rebellion revealed tensions between poor farmers and wealthy landowners in colonial Virginia.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The Seneca Falls Convention was organized to address this issue.
What is women's rights?
Black soldiers in the Union army faced this this type of treatment compared to white soldiers. (two reasons)
What is discrimination and lower pay.
Labor unions were established for this purpose.
What is to improve working conditions and wages?
This historical idea justified westward expansion & led to conflicts with Native Americans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Native Americans faced devastation due to this impact of Christopher Columbus and the Spanish. (2 ans)
What are diseases and forced later?
The idea that Americans were destined to expand westward across continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These were the three goals of the Reconstruction Era.
What are rebuilding the South, reintegrating Southern state, & securing rights for freed African Americans?
This was one major difference between Angel Island and Ellis Island.
What is Angel Island primarily processed Asian immigrants, while Ellis Island processed European Immigrants.
This law, signed in 1830, led to forced removal of Native Americans from their lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?