The Atlantic World
European exploration of the Americas was primarily motivated by this long-standing economic goal.
What is access to Asian trade routes and increased wealth through trade?
This economic institution reduced individual financial risk and encouraged early English colonization.
What are joint-stock companies?
British attempts to tax the colonies increased following this conflict.
What is the French and Indian War?
This technological innovation accelerated transportation and economic growth.
What is the steam engine?
This ideology justified territorial expansion as both inevitable and divinely sanctioned.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This biological exchange unintentionally altered ecosystems and societies on both sides of the Atlantic.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Religious diversity in the colonies emerged largely due to this policy or practice.
What is religious toleration or pluralism?
This uprising revealed weaknesses in the national government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Early industrialization shifted labor from households to this setting.
What are factories?
Disputes over slavery’s expansion into western territories intensified these divisions.
What are sectional tensions?
The introduction of horses most directly transformed Native American societies in this region.
What are the Great Plains?
Colonies that relied on diplomacy with Native Americans typically did so to achieve this goal.
What is economic stability or peaceful trade relations?
Debates over representation at the Constitutional Convention resulted in this compromise.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
Jacksonian Democracy expanded political participation primarily for this group.
Who are white male property-less voters?
Abolitionist literature was effective because it appealed to this audience’s moral values.
Who are Northern readers?
This factor explains why disease was more devastating to Indigenous populations than warfare.
What is a lack of immunity due to long-term geographic isolation?
The First Great Awakening weakened traditional authority by encouraging this belief.
What is individual interpretation of faith or personal religious experience?
Federalists argued that a stronger national government was necessary to address this recurring problem.
What is internal unrest or economic instability?
The Second Great Awakening directly inspired reform movements aimed at this broader goal.
What is moral or social improvement?
By the later years of the Civil War, Union strategy had shifted toward this approach.
What is total war?
European colonization in Period 1 laid the foundation for this global economic system characterized by coerced labor and resource extraction.
What is mercantilism or the emerging Atlantic economic system?
The First Great Awakening contributed to this broader colonial development that later influenced revolutionary thought.
What is increased questioning of authority or a shared American identity?
Washington’s Farewell Address reflects this long-term concern about the survival of the republic.
What is political division undermining national unity?
The Underground Railroad illustrates this growing sectional conflict in the antebellum era.
What is disagreement over slavery and federal authority?
Reconstruction failed in part because of this enduring political and social resistance in the South.
What is white supremacist opposition or resistance to federal authority?