Periods 1 & 2 (1492 - 1754)
The widespread transfer of plants, goods and animals across the Atlantic Ocean was known as this, which also had disastrous consequences in accelerating disease and slavery
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The British began levying taxes on the colonists without their say because of debts incurred by this conflict
What is the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)?
President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States overnight with this land acquisition
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This concept is the god-given right to expand westward from sea to shining sea
What is manifest destiny?
These investigative journalists exposed poor working and housing conditions during the Progressive Era
What are muckrakers?
To meet the demands of the Atlantic economy, colonies employed these workers on contracts. It wasn't long until the colonies relied on slavery as a cheaper labor source
What are indentured servants?
Our first attempt at self-government was this, reducing the power of a national government and empowering state governments to prevent tyranny
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Trail of Tears?
This act included the Fugitive Slave Act and the admission of former Mexican territories as free states, greatly disrupting the balance of free and slave states in government
What is the Compromise of 1850?
In the early 20th century, many African Americans fled the South in this movement, eventually landing in Harlem and beginning its Renaissance
What is the Great Migration?
The colony of New Spain established this system to create a hierarchal structure in the New World
What is the encomienda system?
In order to ratify the Constitution, Federalists and Anti-Federalists compromised on many issues, including this compromise in regards to slavery and political representation
What is the Three-Fifths (3/5) Compromise?
The abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements from this religious revival
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This abolitionist took a more direct approach in freeing slaves by raiding the armory at Harper's Ferry to arm the enslaved
Who is John Brown?
This event was the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear conflict during the Cold War
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This religious group, whose ideals included purifying Christianity and establishing "a city upon a hill," helped found the Massachusetts Bay colony
What are the Puritans?
This royal act from Great Britain forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, restricting freedom of movement and becoming one of the first causes of the American Revolution
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Andrew Jackson increased executive power by vetoing the national bank, cutting funding for internal improvements, and implementing this, a method of rewarding his most loyal supporters with positions in government
What is the spoils system?
Citizens in Kansas and Nebraska were granted this to decide whether their state wanted slavery or not. The results were disastrous and led to violence in Bleeding Kansas
What is popular sovereignty?
This "addition" to the Monroe Doctrine, named after the president at the time, authorized the federal government to war with Spain and capture new territories to protect the Western Hemisphere
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This was the official trade policy of Great Britain and its 13 Colonies, maximizing exported resources from the colonies while minimizing imports to benefit the mother country
What is mercantilism?
Many women participated in the American Revolution by adopting this patriotic attitude, believing it was up to women to raise and educate the first generation of independent Americans
What is Republican motherhood?
This development can be traced to technological innovations like the cotton gin and the railroad, facilitating increased production output, expanding population centers, and growing connections between local and global economies
What is the Market Revolution?
This was a system where former slaves returned to plantations to produce goods and crops for a share of the earnings, continuing in large part the institution of slavery
What is sharecropping?
During World War 2, this unit of Native American soldiers helped created an indecipherable language to transmit classified information to allies without interference
Who are the Navajo code-breakers/code-talkers?