Ch. 1-2
This Italian man is famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 looking for a trade route to India, but instead stumbled upon the Caribbean and South America. This led to Spanish colonization of the "New World"
Christopher Columbus
Trade between Europe, the Americas, and Africa was known as the?
Triangular Trade
Why was the Constitution created?
The Articles of Confederation were too weak
The general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and first U.S. President was?
George Washington
The movement to end slavery
Abolition
To attack someone because of their personal beliefs is to do what to someone?
Persecute
The refusal to buy certain goods
boycott
A restriction on trade
embargo
The U.S. bought a large sum of land for a great price from France in 1803.
Louisiana Purchase
Nat Turner
This event in 1517 caused division in the Christian Church led by Martin Luther and gave way to the formation of many other Christian denominations besides Catholicism
Protestant Reformation
Who were the two major European powers fighting over territory in N. America during the French & Indian War?
Great Britain and France
This Supreme Court case set the precedence for judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
Religious movement in America during the early 1800s
Second Great Awakening
A system where people vote to decide what to do on an issue
popular sovereignty
Thousands of English settlers moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 became known as the what?
Great Migration
What was the document with the list of grievances the N. American colonies said Britain was guilty of leading up to the Revolutionary War known as?
Declaration of Independence
Group of people who seek to win elections and hold public office to control government policy
political party
Former slave who became a famous abolitionist speaker and writer
Frederick Douglass
South Carolina thought they could refuse to recognize federal law after the Tariffs of 1828 hurt farming in the South, which led to the?
Nullification crisis
What was the economic and political system in Europe where Lords controlled serfs?
Feudalism
British policy where they didn't enforce their laws strictly on American colonies to keep them happy and obedient to the crown
Salutary neglect
This was the first major financial depression in the U.S. outside of wartime
Panic of 1819
America's war with Mexico was sparked in 1845 after the U.S. did what?
Annexed Texas
The concerns of a region become more important that the concerns of the country as a whole
sectionalism