1491-1607
The transfer of animals, plants, people and diseases from the old world to the new world
The Columbian Exchange
Identify one cause for European exploration to North America in the 1600's
Spread Christianity (religion), economic opportunities, religious freedom
This war led to an end of salutary neglect in the British colonies and an enforcement of taxes
The French and Indian War
a primary reason why Thomas Jefferson wanted to buy the Louisiana territory in 1803
More land for farmers, access to New Orleans Port, control of the Mississippi River
Manifest Destiny
- strengthened the federal government
- boosted the Northern economy; industry
- began the era of Reconstruction
- ended slavery (13th amendment)
Reconstruction Amendment that ended slavery
13th Amendment
Identify one way that the Columbian Exchange impacted indigenous people in the Americas
diseases dramatically reduced the population, horses transformed the lives of the Plain Indians, guns, forced labor system (encomiendas and slavery), new food sources
The Puritans demand for land led to this war with the Wampanoag nation in Massachusetts Bay colony
King Philip's War
After the Revolutionary War women were asked to teach their sons to be patriotic
Republican Motherhood
Social Reform Movements
War caused by border disputes between Texas and the Mexican government
The Mexican American War
Compromise in which California becomes a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed
The Compromise of 1850
Reconstruction Amendment that gave African American Males the right to vote
15th amendment
Identify one way that the Columbian Exchange impacted the Old World (Europe)
Improved their diet, increased their population, gained mineral wealth (gold), domestic animals (turkey), disease (syphilis)
The result of this rebellion led to an end to indentured servitude and an increased demand for enslaved labor in Virginia
Bacon's Rebellion
Rebellion that resulted in unfair taxes for wheat farmers in western Pennsylvania
Whiskey Rebellion
Movement to end the consumption of alcohol
Temperance Movement
The primary reason why President Jackson does not want to annex (add) Texas to the United States
Speech given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863; goal of the speech was to gain support for the war and a call for action asking America to work towards equality
The Gettysburg Addresss
This organization emerges during Reconstruction with the goal of blocking political rights for African Americans
The Ku Klux Klan or the KKK
the journey of slave ships from Africa to the Americas
The Middle Passage
Intellectual movement that instilled ideas of self-government in the British colonies
Shays's rebellion revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and led to this
The creation of the U.S. Constitution
an effect of the Indian Removal Act; thousands of Cherokee were marched west of the Mississippi River
The Trail of Tears
This person led the American settlement of Texas by obtaining land grants from the Mexican government
Stephen Austin
Land gained as a result of the Mexican American war led to sectionalism because it triggered this debate
Extending slavery in the western territory
Reconstruction Amendment that gave African Americans Citizenship
14th Amendment
Identify a cause for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade:

demand for slave labor in the Americas
John Winthrop
Bill of Rights
Change and Continuity Over Time (CCOT): Describe one similarity between the concept of Manifest Destiny and the ideas that motivated European colonists to migrate to North America in the 1600's
Similarity: Gain territory or land, spread religious beliefs (Christianity), Puritans believed they had a God given right to acquire more land
All of the following events clearly mark the beginning of the Civil War, EXCEPT for:
- Missouri Compromise of 1820
- Acquisition of Mexican territory in 1848
-Compromise of 1850
The Missouri Compromise of 1820- was considered a temporary solution that solved the problem over the balance of free states and slave states; Missouri entered the Union as a slave- Maine would enter as a free state
Freedmen's Bureau