American Indians
This widely-used crop supported economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, and social diversification among native societies.
This religious group settled in the New England colonies and established small, tight-knit villages.
Who are the Puritans?
This set of laws was the predecessor to the Constitution and was the first attempt at creating a new system of government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This event solidified the power of the president to make purchases and expand the territory of the United States, and it fueled westward expansion.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This cash crop was central to the southern colonies and their economies.
What is tobacco.
This person is most well-known for being an avid abolitionist who taught himself to read and write, escaped to the North, and became started his own newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This phrase was the rallying cry of colonists who were upset about the way that Britain created laws for the colonists without their consent.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
This was a warning to European imperialist powers and states that any attempt to take over land in North or South America would be seen as "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States."
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This group of colonies attracted a wide variety of immigrants and was therefore more economically, religiously, and culturally diverse.
What are the middle colonies?
Name one of the causes of the growing opposition to slavery in the US from 1776-1852.
What were the prevalence of social reform OR the spread of anti-slavery literature?
This phrase refers to the idea that women are important to the new nation because they can raise their children to be good citizens.
What is "republican motherhood"?
This change in production and commerce led to the emergence of a larger middle class and a small but wealthy business elite, but also to a large and growingpopulation of laboring poor.
What is the Market Revolution?
This war, fought in the 1670s and also known as Metacom's War, was a conflict between American Indian tribes and New England colonists.
What is King Philip's War?
In the southern colonies, this group of people were the most powerful group.
Explain what the 3/5 Compromise was.
Is was an agreement that slaves would count as 3/5 of a person in determining the population of a state in regards to electing representatives and paying taxes.
The Federalists added this to the constitution in order to get the support of the Anti-Federalists.
What is the "Bill of Rights"?
This Act, signed and enforced by Andrew Jackson, displaced the Cherokee tribe, killing 4,000 people on the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This revolt in the Southwest led to the Spanish colonists accepting some aspects of American Indian life in this area.
What is Pueblo's Revolt?
This form of labor was later replaced by slavery.
What is indentured servitude?
This amendment legally ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
These are the three branches of the government.
What are the judicial, legislative, and executive branch?
The rise of democratic and individualistic beliefs, a response to rationalism, and changes to society caused by the market revolution, along with greater social and geographical mobility, caused the second one of these in the 1840s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?