SUPER STAAR REVIEW

Exploration/Colonization

100

Traded fur with native Americans

France

200

Plantations, cash crops, slavery, warm climate

Southern Colonies

300

Social Contract that established the first form of self-government in the colonies by majority rule; pilgrims; 1620

Mayflower Compact

400

First legislative assembly in the colonies; 1619, Jamestown

Virginia House of Burgesses 

500

Religious revival that led to democratic feelings, representative government; established that commoners were equal to the king.

First Great Awakening

Constitution

100

Procedure for the orderly admission of new states; required 60'000 people, public schools, no slavery, freedom of religion and trial by jury 

Northwest Ordinance 

200

Wrote 85 essays to ratify the constitution; Hamilton and Madison

Federalsits

300

Protects the freedom to share news, gather in public spaces, practice any faith, criticize leaders and request changes to the government

1st Amendment 

400

What do  Anti-Federalists such as George Mason and Patrick Henry demanded in order to protect individual freedoms?

Bill of Rights 

500

Combined the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan to settle the issue over representation; created a bicameral congress

Great Compromise 

Early Republic/Jackson

100

Warned against foreign alliances and political parties

Farewell Address

200

Case of the Supreme Court that established judicial review

Marbury vs Madison

300

Political Party founded by Jefferson, supported state rights and lower taxes

Democratic-Republican Party

400

Georgia wanted to remove Indians; Indians sue in court; Jackson ignores the ruling; Leads to the Trail of Tears

Worcester vs Georgia

500

South Carolina ignored the tariff of 1828; Jackson threatens to send the army

Nullification Crisis

Industrial Revolution

100

Left their country due to a potato famine; worked in factories, building canals and railroads, provided cheap labor, settled in the North east (New York, etc)

Irish immigrants 

200

Economic system that promotes competition, choices; prices are set by supply and demand; minimal government intervention

Free Enterprise 

300

Lowered the costs of transportation; extended western settlements; invented by Robert Fulton

Steamboats 

400

Political Party founded by nativists to restrict immigration

Know-Nothing party

500

Led to the growth of cities; urbanization; attracted immigrants

Factories 

Reform/West Expansion

100

Wanted to abolish slavery; wrote the North Star

Frederick Douglas

200

 attracted Chinese immigrants; started in Sutter's Mill California

Gold Rush

300

Granted the right to vote to African American men

15th Amendment 

400

Intensified the debate over slavery; Treaty that ended the U.S-Mexican war

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

500

Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thourau, do the right thing, relationship between man and nature; 

Transcendentalism