Ch 1 - 4
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
The priest who defended native people during Columbus’ voyages, but also suggested the use of slaves from Africa.
What group of people protested the Townshend Acts by spinning homespun clothing to aid the trade boycott?
Women
The Temperance movement enjoyed the most success during which decade?
1820's.
The Stamp Act was repealed. How did the colonists respond?
Praising Parliament and King George III.
King George III issued the ______ ________ of ____ and limit settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains to limit wars with the French and Native Americans, and to make it easier to collect taxes.
Royal Proclamation of 1763
Western Farmers suffered the most from the _____ tax.
Whiskey tax.
Invention of the cotton gin, growth of the American textile industry, and the Louisiana purchase are the three which impacted the spread of what?
Slavery.
Availability of credit, manufacturing, and transportation.
What did the prophet Neolin inspire?
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Reducing the size of the federal government was a key goal for which president?
President Jefferson.
What was “Burned Over District?”
Term for a region greatly affected by the revivals of the Second Great Awakening.
What group of people benefitted from a popular conspiracy theory that blamed The Masonic Order for the problems in American Society?
The Whig Party.
What group of people used enslaved Africans to construct New Amsterdam?
The Dutch.
Name the three contributing causes of the War of 1812.
British policy of impressment, American fears of Britain encouraging Indian uprising, and political influence of the War Hawks
Name the three things the Missouri Compromise did.
Admit Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and Lands of Louisiana Purchase 36’30 line, no slavery above geographical line .
Define the Reconquista.
Spain expelling the Muslims.
Juan Ponce de Leon arrived in the area named La Florida in the year ________.
1513
The Coercive or Intolerable Acts included four specific laws. Name those laws.
Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
What was the primary cause of the 1839 division in the American Antislavery Society?
Disagreements over the usefulness of electoral politics and the importance of women's rights.
How many enslaved people were living in the south in 1860?
4 million.