1492-1700
Widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, and cultures between Europe & the New World
Columbian Exchange
Three groups who fought along the American frontier during the Seven Years War.
English, French, Iroquois
This individual delivered an impassioned speech to the House of Burgesses against the Stamp Act, sometimes called the "Treason Speech."
Patrick Henry
__________________ was the act of giving government jobs to political allies
Idea that people would get to vote for or against slavery.
Popular sovereignty
The introduction of this from Europe, along with guns, increased the intensity of warfare among Native Americans.
The Horse
George Washington inadvertently started the French & Indian War by ______________________.
Attacking a group of Frenchmen in the Ohio Country.
This pamphlet championed the idea of independence from Great Britain.
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
The last attempt to unite many Native tribes against White Europeans was made by this man.
Tecumseh
Purpose of the U.S. Sanity Commission.
Nurses providing relief and support to sick & wounded soldiers.
Bloodiest war between the English colonists and Indians during the 17th Century
King Phillip's War
This region had the greatest concentration of slaves during the 18th Century.
Coastal Virginia
Political party that emerged in the 1790s and advocated for a strong central government.
Federalist Party
Rural women
Political act that changed the Civil War into a battle to end slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
Theory that free trade is good for the nation's economy.
Mercantilism
Attempt to unite the Thirteen Colonies into a collective government.
Albany Congress/Albany Plan of Union
Scandal that occurred when French diplomats attempted to get bribes from American diplomats.
XYZ Affair
Many White people made this argument AGAINST the removal of Native tribes from their land.
The "civilized tribes" had adopted White European culture & lifestyles.
To prevent MORE states from seceding, President Lincoln sometimes resorted to this tactic.
Suspend civil liberties.
Division between politically powerful people on the Virginia coast and farmers on the western frontier prompted this conflict.
Bacon's Rebellion
Union between six Native tribes in the Great Lakes region.
Iroquois Confederacy
Attempt made by New England to secede from the Union
Hartford Convention
Abolitionist newspaperman from Massachusetts whose rhetoric prompted pro-slavery people to use violence against anti-slavery people.
William Lloyd Garrison
Compromise of 1877