Native Americans
The Great Plains, with their herds of roaming Bison were home to this type of native society
What are nomadic hunter-gatherers?
Southern colonies were based this type of agriculture:
What are cash crops?
What is the Enlightenment?
This conflict led to 13 of the British colonies in North America becoming their own independent country.
What is the American Revolution?
Mercantilism requires the creation of markets to trade goods, in other words, these:
What are colonies?
In areas that require careful management of water, you are most likely to find these societies.
What are settled agrarian societies?
What is religious freedom?
This religious movement happened in rural Massachusetts, but its ideas spread to all 13 colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
This war, fought against France over Ohio led the British to impose high taxes on its colonies to pay its debts.
What is the French and Indian War?
This first global sea trade network moved goods between Europe, Africa and the colonies in the Americas
What is the Triangular Trade?
Under Washington's Indian Trade and Intercourse Act, native tribes were considered to be these.
What are foreign countries?
This conflict led Virginia, and other southern colonies to gradually abandon indentured servants in favor of chattel slavery.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
This religious movement focused in upstate New York, promoted values that mirrored those of capitalism like temperance and hard work.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Despite not being specifically allowed in the Constitution, Jefferson used the U.S. Marines to attack pirates in this conflict:
What are the Barbary Wars?
This idea argued that the British should leave the colonies be, so long as they were making money. It ended with the French and Indian War.
What is Salutary Neglect?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Pennsylvania was settled by this religious group, making it the first, and for decades the only colony that was openly anti-slavery.
Who are the Quakers?
This political party, which was focused in the North, argued that slavery should be done away with because it limited economic growth.
What is the Free Soil Party / Free Soilers?
To try to prevent war, Ben Franklin wrote this to the British King, which promised an end to conflict if the British gave the colonies a vote in Parliament.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
In response to Mercantile laws that restricted trade and levied high taxes, the colonists did this:
What is smuggling?
Semi-Nomadic Societies that move between permanent settlements are typically found in these regions?
What are coastal forests?
This law ensured that most people in New England were literate and could write.
What is the Old Deluder Act?
This idea, first expressed by Jefferson, argued that government should be limited to doing only what was expressly written in the Constitution
What is Strict Constructionism?
These laws were passed by Adams as part of the Quasi War against France. It allowed him to expel non-citizens and arrest anyone who criticized him.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This law required that British colonies could only trade with Britain.
What are the Navigation Acts?