column 1 1607-1754
First permanent English settlement (1607)
What is jamestown?
What is the French and Indian War?
War that led to British taxes on colonies
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
1803 land deal doubling the U.S.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that Americans had a God-given mission to expand westward
What is mercantilism?
trade system benefiting the mother country
Main cash crop of virginia
What is tobacco?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
document declaring U.S. independence
What is the cotton gin?
Invention that boosted cotton and slavery
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
1854 law with popular sovereignty in two territories
What is the Missouri Compromise?
1820 deal splitting free and slave areas
1676 rebellion by frontier farmers
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
the first U.S. government
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
case supporting federal power and the national bank
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
1863 order freeing leaves
What is the Democratic Party?
Jacksons political party
Who is Roger Williams?
Founder of Rhode island
What is Marbury v. Madison?
case that created judical review
What is Henry Clay’s American System?
Clay's plan for tariffs,roads, and a bank
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
case saying slaves weren't citizens
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
1848 women's right meeting
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
1754 plan to unite colonies
what did France do
allies with the U.S after saratoga
What is the Temperance Movement?
movement to reduce alchohol use
What is Radical Reconstruction?
Harsh reconstruction plan run by congress
What are the National Banking Acts?
civil war laws creating national currency