Unit 1
1492, he sailed the ocean blue
Columbus
Helped "save" Jamestown
Tobacco
belief that the United States was divinely ordained—chosen by God—to expand its democratic and capitalist institutions across the entire North American continent
Manifest Destiny
Ended Slavery
13th Amendment
exposed political, social, and economic corruption during the late 1800s and early 1900s
Muckrakers
Colonial region known as the "breadbasket"
Middle Colonies
Enlightenment rights (life, liberty & property)
Natural Rights
1849, California
Gold Rush
Defined citizenship and protected civil rights after the Civil War
14th Amendment
used the legal system, fought against unfair laws, and expand rights for African Americans
NAACP
Colonial Regions with the highest literacy rates and life-expectancy
New England
Thomas Paine pamphlet-stressed American Independence from Britain
Common Sense
Temporary agreement in Congress that kept the balance of power between slave states and free states equal
Missouri Compromise
Helped ex-slaves during Reconstruction
Freedmen's Bureau
belief that the rich were inherently better and more "fit"
Social Darwinism
First example of slavery in the American Colonies
Encomienda System
Combination of the NJ and VA Plans at the Constitutional Convention
Great Compromise
Anti-slavery movement
Abolition
made up of freedom African Americans, former Union soldiers, and businessmen after the Civil War
Republican Party
Stressed charity and action on social reforms
Social Gospel
Colonial conflict between the British and French
French and Indian War
First U.S. Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Part of the Compromise of 1850, challenged by Northerners as unconstitutional
Fugitive Slave Act
Gave all adult males the right to vote
15th Amendment
Progressive President who took actions to preserve and conserve the nation's resources
Theodore Roosevelt