Government
This form of government requires representatives that are elected by the people to make and vote on legislation
What is a Republic?
Chinese, Swedish, Dutch, English, and Irish
Puritan, Protestant, Catholic, Quaker
What are racial, ethnic and religious groups that settled in the United States?
Founded in 1607 and 1620, these were the first British colonies established for economic and religious reasons respectively
What is the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth?
What are the economic differences between regions of the United States?
Louisiana Purchase, Florida, Texas, Oregon Territory, Mexican Cession
San Francisco, St. Louis, Fort Mandan, Sutter’s Mill
What are places of importance in the United States?
What are territories obtained during Westward Expansion?
This court case established the authority of the Supreme court to review if a law would be declared unconstitutional; judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
German sausage, Indian curry, Mexican burritos
Muslim Americans observe Ramadan, a month of fasting (giving up food) and prayer.
Jazz, tango, and the Opera
What are contributions of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups?
This time period is described as an argument over how much federal government power should be allowed resulting in agreement in the year 1787
When was the Constitutional Era?
Started in the British West Indies or West Africa with enslaved people being transported to provide a labor for the sugar plantations; as the plantation system expanded in the American South trade expanded to meet the demand for enslaved people to labor in American colonies that produced significant cash crops
What is the Transatlantic slave trade?
New Orleans and Boston were founded as port cities just as Former Spanish Colonies California and Florida
Texas and the West had opened to settlement with the construction of roads, and canals; economy was based on agricultural production
What are the human/physical characteristics of regions in the United States?
Starting with an argument over how much federal power there should be, two groups emerged with Alexander Hamilton and John Adams leading one and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in charge of the other
What are the first two political parties?
What are the Federalists and Democratic Republicans?
Competition for limited resources, city services, and jobs in urban areas heightened differences among culture groups and sometimes resulted in conflict such as the New York race riots of 1863, anti-immigration sentiment, anti-Catholic sentiment, and nativist policies such as the Know-Nothing Party
What is the relationship between urbanization and conflicts?
Written in 1776, this document would be the first constitution to create a separate framework from Britain with one branch of government a Congress that had little power to regulate commerce, taxes, or a federal authority to enforce laws made
What is the Articles of Confederation?
longer growing seasons, fertile soil, and mild climate conditions facilitated the agriculture economic development of the region that was characterized by large plantations
What is the South?
What is the cause of economic differences in the United States?
This Location was the final destination of relocated Native Indians after being removed by force from their land with the Indian Removal Act under the presidency of Andrew Jackson
Where is Oklahoma?
No clause or law can be found in the U.S. Constitution related to this group but the precedent for creating these positions was established by the first president of the United States
What is a presidential cabinet?
Throughout early American history the fine arts have illustrated a national spirit and pride
The fine arts in America also demonstrate the development of a pluralistic and industrialized society, evidenced especially by musical styles influenced by both Europeans and Africans
What is the relationship between the arts and the American Way of life?
This time period is described as industrial growth, immigration, urbanization, and the religious movement of the Second Great Awakening
When was the Industrial Revolution?
When was the Industrialization Era?
As a result of the interruption of trade brought about by a British blockade, Americans had to rely on U.S. manufactured goods in place of those they had previously imported; U.S. manufacturing expanded
What are economic changes after the war of 1812?
This location was the first convening of women in the United States is considered to be the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Where is Seneca Falls, NY?
Distance from England, Salutory neglect of colonial affairs, colonies that were self-governing, and accustomed to parliamentary conditions
What were the reasons for growth of representative government in Colonial America?
served as a nurse to Union troops in the American Civil War and nicknamed “the angel of the battlefield” founded the American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
What were contributions of women to American Society?
This time period is described as a conflict over states' rights and economic differences resulting in the addition of amendments to the constitution and increased expansion west
When was the Civil War?
What were the reasons for rapid Industrialization and Urbanization?
Cities grew and were more densely populated
Railroads facilitated westward migration
Mechanization of agriculture greatly expanded productivity and the demand for enslaved labor.
What is the connection between industrialization and sectionalism?