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100

the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Old World and the New World

Columbian Exchange

100

System where each person got 50 acres for coming to the New World

Headright system

100

What caused fighting in the French and Indian War?

French soldiers building forts on the App mt boundary

100

The peaceful transfer of power between rival parties solidified faith in America’s political system. (Adams to Jefferson)

The Revolution of 1800

100

President with 4 point mission: 

  • Lower the tariff

  • Restore the independent treasury (put U.S. money into non-government banks)

  • Clear up the Oregon border issue

  • Get California

Polk

200

Which part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade was the deadliest?

Middle Passage

200

Time period where Britain left colonists alone

salutary neglect

200

Recognizing the need for coordinating colonial defense, the British government called for representatives from several colonies to meet. Ben Franklin designs this

Albany Plan of Union

200

doubled the size of the US for $15million

Louisiana Purchase

200

Ended the War of 1812

Treaty of Ghent

300

Where did Starving Time take place?

Jamestown

300

the first popular uprising in the American colonies. as an early revolt against English tyranny, which culminated in the war for independence one hundred years later. (People were not happy with the land situation)

Bacons rebellion

300
  • Close Boston Harbor

  • Cancels Massachusetts Bay Colony charter

  • Quebec Act offered toleration to French Catholics

  • Force colonists to house British soldiers

Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts

300

“Not one inch of territory ceded or lost”

Treaty of Ghent
300

Name 2 states the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave us

Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. 

400

Who created Rhode Island as a heaven for all faiths?

Roger Williams
400

established the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

Mayflower Compact

400

Battle in American Revolution where Cornwallis surrenders

Yorktown

400

Election of 1840 - slogans of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” established which major US party>?

Whigs

400

attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. (hint: john brown)

Harpers Ferry

500

 The first elected legislative assembly in the colonies. 2 elected representatives from each county established laws and taxation

VA House of Burgesses

500

Trail that occured in early colonial times over sedition and libel. The defendant was aquitted.

Zenger trials
500

Law passed to deport “dangerous foreigners” even in times of peace & silence and punish critics of the Federalists by fining or imprisoning anyone “defaming government officials” or “interfering with government policies”

Alien and Sedition Acts

500

camp meetings and tent revivals in informal settings, emphasis on feeling the presence of God -- beginning of evangelism with a more populist feel 

2nd great awakening

500

List the 4 candidates in the 1860 election

Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Brecknidge