Period 1
the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Old World and the New World
Columbian Exchange
System where each person got 50 acres for coming to the New World
Headright system
What caused fighting in the French and Indian War?
French soldiers building forts on the App mt boundary
The peaceful transfer of power between rival parties solidified faith in America’s political system. (Adams to Jefferson)
The Revolution of 1800
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
Which part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade was the deadliest?
Middle Passage
Time period where Britain left colonists alone
salutary neglect
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
doubled the size of the US for $15million
Louisiana Purchase
What is the name of the idea that Americans were called to expand borders to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
Where did Starving Time take place?
Jamestown
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
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
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri=slave state
Maine= free
Slavery prohibited north of 36' 30.
Name 1 advantage of the Union during the Civil War
Transportation, more population, more manufacturing, more soldiers
Who created Rhode Island as a heaven for all faiths?
established the first governing document of Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact
Battle in American Revolution where Cornwallis surrenders (ie END of Revolution)
Yorktown
Indian Removal Act
attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. (hint: john brown)
Harpers Ferry
The first elected legislative assembly in the colonies. 2 elected representatives from each county established laws and taxation
VA House of Burgesses
What was it called when people were captured, enslaved, and taken from Africa to the New World?
Transatlantic Slave Trade
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
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
List 1 achievement and 1 failure of Reconstruction
Achievements: Freedman's Bureau, 13/14/15 amendments, Union reunited
Failures: Rise of KKK, black codes, sharecropping