Colonial Foundations & Revolution
The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals between the Old and New Worlds.
Columbian Exchange
The 1773 protest against a British law, which the British met with the "Intolerable Acts."
Boston Tea Party
This 1776 document used Enlightenment ideals to explain why the colonies were breaking from Britain.
Declaration of Independence
The belief that the U.S. was divinely destined to expand across the entire continent.
Manifest Destiny
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe turned many Northerners against the morality of slavery.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This 1763 decree prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
Competition over the Ohio River Valley was the primary catalyst for this global conflict.
French and Indian War or Seven Years War
The first, albeit weak, central government of the U.S. that lacked the power to tax.
The Articles of Confederation
This 1793 invention by Eli Whitney inadvertently caused a massive expansion of slavery.
Cotton Gin
________ was the primary example of the cash crop that saved the Virginia colony.
Tobacco
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony, established a precedent for self-government.
Mayflower Compact
This British policy of relaxed enforcement of trade laws allowed colonies to develop autonomy.
Salutary Neglect
This was added to the Constitution specifically to protect individual liberties from government abuse.
The Bill of Rights
Napoleon sold this territory to the U.S. partly because he lost control of a Caribbean colony in this event.
Haitian Revolution and Louisiana Purchase
This 1857 ruling stated that Black people were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
Dred Scott Decision
Unlike Europeans who saw land as private property, many Native Americans viewed it this way.
collective use
This 1775 offer promised freedom to any enslaved person who fled to fight for the British Crown.
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
Established in Marbury v. Madison, it allows the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
Judicial Review
This Shawnee leader attempted to create a pan-Indian confederacy to resist white settlement.
Tecumseh
This labor system, where people worked for a set period for passage to America, was the precursor to slavery.
Indentured Servitude
The 1777 "turning point" of the Revolution that convinced France to join the American cause.
Battle of Saratoga
The economic theory that colonies exist to enrich the mother country through a favorable balance of trade.
Mercantilism
Intellectual movement emphasizing reason and natural rights that fueled American self-governance.
Enlightenment
This transportation innovation lowered costs and unified the Eastern and Western markets.
R.R.
The shift from temporary labor to a permanent, race-based, hereditary system of bondage.
Evolution of Slavery