Colonial Period
What is The Triangular Trade?
What is The Triangular Trade?Importation of enslaved Africans to the Western Hemisphere
What is The Boston Massacre
Five people killed by British Soldiers
What is the U.S Constitution
A statement of rules and procedures for governing the U.S
What is Manifest Destiny?
Idea that the U.S should posses the entire continent
What is Reconstruction Era?
Time period following the Civil war, when the Southern State were reorganized and reintegrated back into the Union.
What is The French and Indian War?
War for American independence from Great Britain
What is the Sugar and Stamp Act
Tax foreign molasses and printed materials
What is federalism?
Division of powers between the national and state government
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Promoted development of western lands by providing free land to the settlers
What is the 13th Amendment?
Law that formally abolished slavery in the U.S
What is Salutary Neglect?
Period of time when the British ignored the colonies because they only wanted to benefit from the economic prosperity of the colonies
What is the Townshend Act
Taxes, imported goods and tea
What is Delegated Powers?
Powers only granted to the Federal Government
What is the Gold Rush of 1849?
An increase in westward migration
What is Jim Crow Laws?
Attempts by state and local government to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after the end of the Civil War
What is The Albany Plan of Union(1754)?
Early attempt to unify American colonies but under British rule
What is taxation without representation?
Colonists believed they could not be taxed by the British because they had no representatives in the British government.
What is the legislative branch?
Group of representatives from each state that propose,write,vote on laws, approve treaties
Who is President James Polk?
Made polices involving Texas,California,And Oregon Territory to fulfill the goal of Manifest Destiny
What are Carpetbaggers?
Northerners who moved down south to participate in Reconstruction governments
What is The British Mercantilism?
Economic policy used by the British in which the American Colonies serves as a source of raw materials and a market to sell goods.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
States the grievances against British rule.
What is Division of Power?
The framers of the constitution included the concepts of federalism,checks & balances, and separation of powers
What is the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
Supreme Court which ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
Supreme Court case that upheld the Jim Crow Laws based on the idea that the laws provided" seperate but equal" public facilities for African Americans