A grant from Spain that allowed colonists to use native people as laborers.
What is Econmienda
100
A war (the French and India War) ranging from 1756 to 1763 ending with the Treaty of Paris.
What is The Seven Years War
100
A time in our history when we had a sort of national unity but still had the dispersal of a political party and the splitting of another.
What is Era of Good Feeling.
100
Seen as God's will to expand.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
The time period where a few successful people changed the overall appearance of the time.
What is The Gilded Age
200
A group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship after the reformation of the Church of England
What is Puritans
200
A document declaring the US to be independent of the British Crown, signed by the Congressional Representatives of the thirteen colonies. Ratified July 4th, 1776
What is Declaration of Independence
200
a tendency to be more in favor of the interests of a certain group or religion than the problems of the nation.
What is sectionalism.
200
The war that raged between the nation over topics such as slavers and equality.
What is Civil War
200
The theory of Survival of the Fittest applied in the daily life.
What is Social Darwinism
300
Established for equality.
Established for trade.
Established for protection and agriculture.
What is New England/Middle/Southern Colonies.
300
The original constitution of the United States, ratified in 1781, replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
What is Articles of Confederation
300
the result of rising tensions between pro- and anti-slavery groups in America. Missouri petitioned to join the Union as a slave state 1819 and as a way to keep the peace between the factions. This compromise was two part which admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to balance the admission of Missouri. (36th degree parallel)
What is Missouri Compromise.
300
A strategic plan to declare free the slaves of rebel states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
The shift in an area that changes it from small scale to large scale industy
What is Industrialization
400
A wide-spread colonial revival of religion.
What is The Great Awakening.
400
Farmers in Massachusetts rebel against encroachment of powers and high inflation rates.
What is Shay's Rebellion
400
A conflict between the United States and United Kingdom that was on the land and sea.
What is War of 1812
400
Amendments that were implemented to abolish slavery, guarantee citizenship for freed slaves and give voting rights to everyone (except women)
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
400
The process where the general population is shifted from rural to urban
What is Urbanization
500
The revolution of enslaved Indians in New Mexico.
What is Pueblo Revolt
500
The collective name for the first ten amendments.
What is Bill of Rights
500
A drastic change in how manual labor was conducted in the United States that changed the stock market
What is Market Revolution.
500
A Congressional institution designed to provide the basic needs for life and to oversee the distribution of land to freed black families
What is the Freedman's Bureau
500
-a business executive whose wealth was acquired through questionable tactics
- an industrious leader who gave back to the poor and the society for beneficial reasons.