Season 1-2
This is when a country establishes colonies in order to send raw resources back to produce goods for profit. "Export more than import".
Mercantilism
This rebellion showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, due to the fact that the federal government had no power to tax citizens to raise an army.
Shays' Rebellion
This act proved to the country that popular sovereignty would not work due to the violence that broke out between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery citizens known as "Bleeding-Kansas".
Kansas-Nebraska Act
13th
Why did the Southern States have a larger amount of slaves than the other regions of the U.S.?
Geography/climate --> cash crops --> slaves to work on farms
The man who established Jamestown as England's first colony in America. Captain of the Virginia Joint-Stock Company
John Smith
Passed by President James Monroe that claimed any more European colonization in the Western Hemisphere would be met with war by the United States. It was "off-limits".
Monroe Doctrine
The main reason the Confederacy lost the Civil War
Less resources than the Union
The biggest difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction was that Congress wanted to divide the south into these
During the Gilded Age, labor abused workers would go on this to try and get a better work environment out of it; better pay, shorter hours, shorter work week, etc
Strike
These laws were passed on the city of Boston as punishment for the Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
A way to describe America's "destiny" to spread democracy across the entire continent and its duty to reach from sea to shining sea.
Manifest Destiny
The turning point of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee's forces were defeated at this battle site after attempting an invasion of the Northern territory.
One way the federal government invested in protecting freed blacks after the Civil War was the creation of this organization, whose greatest achievement was the construction of 3,000 public schools.
Freedmen's Bureau
Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising of these people against the Jamestown wealthy elite; the rebellion directly led to an increase in enslaved people in the colonies.
Indentured Servants
This conflict was the primary cause for an increase of tax laws placed on the colonies to pay back the war debt
French and Indian War
Passed by Alexander Hamilton to rebuild the nations economy by imposing tariffs, creating a national bank, and assuming state debts
Hamilton's Financial Plan
President Jackson forced Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the Southern U.S. on this march, after the Supreme Court told him it was unconstitutional.
Trail of Tears
This is when companies are able to control the market of a specific product, therefore the company can manipulate the price.
Monopoly.
The outcome of the War of 1812 proved that the nation had developed a common national this
Identity
This was the main reason each region of the American Colonies had vastly different economies and governments.
Geography/climate
This President made a controversial decision by purchasing land from France in the Louisiana Territory. The President could not explicitly do so, however in the Constitution it did not state they couldn't, either.
Thomas Jefferson
Jacksonian Democracy sought to expand voting rights to these people
White/male/taxpayers
R.O.S.E
This Supreme Court case proved that the Judicial Branch had great power with their ability to use judicial review, which means to judge a law constitutional or not.
Marbury v. Madison