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The first English settlement
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
Extra info: 1607; 100 years after Columbus; by 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sons of aristocrats (1st borns inherited everything)
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
The only successful revolt against European settlers
Resulted in the Spanish becoming more accommodating to the Natives:
-Stopped forcing their language and religion on them
What was the problem with the articles of confederation?
Weak central government and states held too much power
Extra info:
-federal gov couldn't tax and install a national currency
-states could make their own laws
The leader of the Trail of Tears. (The Presiden at the time)
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The women in the American Progress Painting.
Who is Columbia?
Europeans brought diseases to America that the Natives had no immunity to.
They didn't do it intentionally as they didn't understand how germs were spread.
What was Salutary Neglect?
British attitude towards the colonies in the 1600s and 1700s where they loosely or didn't enforce the laws on trade
What are the three branches and levels of government?
Branches: executive, legislative, & judicial
Levels: national, state, & local
The inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whiney?
The cause of Manifest Destiny.
What is the desire to annex Texas and remove the British from the Oregon County?
What is an Indentured servant?
Poor people who tried to escape their country came to the colonies
7 year contract with no pay but were given food and clothes (plus their travel expenses were covered)
What was the French and Indian War?
War between French and British over land in the Ohio River Valley
Between 1754-1763
French allied with the Natives
What are the 3 types of power for law making?
reserved (state)
delegated/enumerated (federal)
concurrent (shared)
The reason more people attended the meetings for the second great awakening.
Poor people were invited: they served food and provided entertainment(music & dancing) to drive them to attend
People working on farms could see their neighbor: They lived miles apart and these were their chances to see their neighbors
The modern music and less coverage/modest clothing attracked young people to join the church
The unsuccessful battle for the independence of Texas.
What is the Alamo?
What happened at Roanoke?
Lost colony in Virginia
People returned to the colony and found no remains
Historians believe they intermarried with the Natives
What happened at the Boston Tea Party?
The colonist disguised themselves as Natives, snuck on board of British East Indian Tea Company ships and threw 342 chest of tea overboard
Extra info(cause): Tea Act of 1773: Colonist could only purchase British tea (cheaper but taxed)
List some of the court cases and what they accomplished under Chief Justice John Marshall.
1. Marbury v. Madison (1803): Judicial Review
2. McCulloch v. Madison (1819): Congress has power to establish a national bank (+ necessary and proper clause)
3. Cohens v. Virginia (1821): Judicial Review for state laws
4. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824): Congress has power to regulate trade
The difference between Native American Society and Colonist Society in terms of women.
Native American Society: complete control over their lives and maintained economic independence after marriage, had rights, sat on war councils and held positions of power, matriarchal society
Colonist Society: coverture, no civil rights, no power or jobs, patriarchal society
The Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is Missouri joining as a slave state and Maine joining as a free state?
Extra info: Slavery could not spread above the Missouri Compromise Line
The difference between the Pilgrims and Puritans.
Puritans: middle-upper class english people, arrived 10 years after the Pilgrims, hostile and forced religious beliefs onto Natives
For what reason(s) were the Americans able to win against the British in the American Revolution?
1. The British generals underestimated the Americans
2. Patriot leaders were able to inspire many soldiers and civilians to join their cause
3. General George Washingtons choosing a war of attrition (fleeing and wearing out opposing army)
4.French finacially supported the American Patriots
The "Father of the American factory system."
Who is Samuel Slater?
Extra info:
Illegally brought knowledge of textile technology from Britain to the US
The name of the first womens rights convention.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
What were both sides of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate?
Lincoln: believed slavery was immoral and it shouldn’t soread into new territories
Douglas: believed forcing abolition was undemocratic and would lead to war; he favored popular sovereignty