Period 1: 1497-1607 Exploration
The exchange of plants, animals, cultures, resources, languages, diseased and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is the reasons that New England established and who was it established by
What is that New England states, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, were established by Puritans seeking religious freedom.
A tax that the British Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies
What is the Stamp Act?
Wrote three documents outlining his economic plans which he then presented to Congress. helped write federalist papers.
What is Alexander Hamilton?
honest frontiersman from IL; the "rail-splitter" officially joined politics after the KS-NE act; challenged Douglas for the IL senate seat and although he put up a good fight, lost; won the election of 1860 as 1st successful Republican
-president thru civil war
What is Abraham Lincoln?
Native American labor was marshaled (arranged, assembled) on plantations or in mines. It was later replaced by African slave labor.
What is the Encomienda System?
This is the results of the Navigation Acts?
What is the Navigation Acts resulted in resistance from both the Dutch and American Colonies and caused three commercial wars between the Dutch and the British?
An idea linked to republicanism that elevated the role of women. It gave them the prestigious role as the special keepers of the nation's conscience Its roots were from the idea that a citizen should be to his country as a mother is to her child.
What is Republican Motherhood?
an incident of the late 1790s in which French secret agents demanded a bribe and a loan to France in lieu of negotiating a dispute over the Jay Treaty and other issues
What is XYZ Affair
an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.
What is Missouri Compromise?
This is the structure of the slave trade in colonial American.
What is the Triangle Trade?
an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part
What is Bacon's rebellion?
(1775) initiated the Revolutionary War between the American colonists and the British. British governor Thomas Gage sent troops to Concord to stop the colonists who were loading arms. The next day, on April 19, 1775, the first shots were fired in Lexington, starting the war. The battles resulted in a British retreat to Boston
What are the battle of Lexington and Concord?
1804, This amendment states that if no presidential candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes then the House of Representatives decides among the top three.
What is the 12th Amendment?
notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery. Seemingly a compromise, it was largely opposed by Northern abolitionists who feared it would promote the spread of slavery to the territories.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
These were some of the motivations of bringing African slaves into the Americas.
What is cheap labor?
The first joint-stock company in the colonies; founded Jamestown; promised gold, conversion of Indian to Christianity, and passage to the Indies
What is the Virginia Company?
A pamphlet written in 1776 that was one of the most potent publications ever. It called for the colonists to realize their mistreatment and push for independence from England. Paine introduced ideas such as the fact that nowhere in the universe did a smaller heavenly body control a larger, which was why there was no reason for England to have control over the vast lands of America. The pamphlet was high-class journalism as well as propaganda and sold 120,000+ copies within a few months.
What is Common Sense?
The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789).
What is Marbury vs Madison?
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Treaty between Spain and Portugal defining the Spanish claim on exploration and settlement west of the Cape Verde Islands in 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wampanoags, led by Metacom, a chief also known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.
What is King Phillip's War
October 19, 1781; Last major battle of the Revolutionary War) American troops under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau trapped British troops under Charles Cornwallis and his troops in the Chesapeake Bay, with the help of Admiral de Grasse and the French fleet. Cornwallis was forced to surrender. Significance: although not the last of the fighting, this signified the end of the war.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
the years of Monroe's presidency, during 1817-1825 people had good feelings caused by the nationalistic pride after the Battle of New Orleans and second war for Independence with British, only one political party was present, on the surface everything looked fine, but underneath it all everything was troubled, conflict over slavery was appearing and sectionalism was inevitable, Missouri Compromise had a very dampening effect on those good feelings
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
divided the Confederate states except for Tennessee into five military districts. Military commanders in the districts were appointed to oversee constitutional conventions in the districts and the creation of state constitutions. This military occupation would last until the states created new constitutions that included black suffrage, the permanent disfranchisement of Confederate leaders, and ratification of the 14th Amendment.
What is the Reconstruction Act (1867)?