Vocabulary
This term describes the exchange of goods, people, and disease after 1492
What is the Columbian Exchange
This European nation established the first permanent settlements in the Caribbean
Who is Spain
This period attempted to rebuild the South after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
He wrote Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
This war ended French power in North America
What is the French and Indian War?
This labor system dominated early Chesapeake (Virginia area) colonies, but was made up of Poor Europeans
What is Indentured servitude
This 18th-century religious movement emphasized emotional preaching
What is the First Great Awakening?
This Supreme Court case declared Congress could not ban slavery in territories
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This formerly enslaved abolitionist used speeches and publications to pressure the federal government to link the Civil War to emancipation and Black enlistment.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This economic system guided Britain’s colonial policies
What is mercantilism?
This belief argued political power comes from the people. It was especially used when arguments were made about slavery in new territories
What is popular sovereignty?
This policy forcibly removed Native Americans west of the Mississippi
What is Indian Removal?
This political leader defended slavery and sectional interests during the antebellum period and helped articulate Southern opposition to federal limits on slavery’s expansion
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This era saw rapid urbanization and industrial growth
What is the Gilded Age?
This belief justified wealth inequality during the Gilded Age
What is Social Darwinism?
This document created a weak national government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Political party which extended the right to vote to more white men between 1820-1830 (Must be specific)
Who are the Jacksonian Democrats?
This Progressive Era journalist exposed monopolistic practices in the oil industry, helping build public support for antitrust reform.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This political party emerged in the 1850s opposing slavery’s expansion
What is the Republican Party?
This business structure exists when a single firm achieves sufficient market dominance to suppress competition and set prices largely independent of market forces
What is a monopoly?
This development most directly weakened colonial loyalty after 1763
What is British taxation and imperial control after the Seven Years’ War?
This factor most limited the success of Reconstruction by 1877
What is the lack of federal enforcement
This industrialist built the first large-scale corporate monopoly in the United States by using horizontal integration, price wars, and railroad rebates to dominate the oil industry during the Gilded Age.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This reform movement exposed urban poverty through journalism
What are muckrakers?