Period 1
Practice of growing beans, corn, and squash together for maximum crop yield
Three-Sister Farming
Investors pool their money to fund commercial enterprises [colonies in this case]
Joint-Stock Company
Colonial meeting to keep Iriquois loyal and achieve greater colonial unity
Albany Congress
The war ignited between Britain and the U.S. because of impressment and trade
War of 1812
1849 influx of thousands of miners to Northern California after news of discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill
Gold Rush
A Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob; corn
Maize
The dominant credo of Puritans with the central idea of predestination
Calvinism
Delegates wrote a statement of their rights/grievances and begged Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
Louis and Clark’s entourage sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana territory
Corps of Discovery
Series of reforms widely opposed in both North and South that failed to quell the intensifying slavery dispute
Compromise of 1850
Spanish system of legal slavery
Encomienda System
Religious revival emphasizing emotive, direct spirituality
Great Awakening
Insurrection of Pennsylvania whiskey distillers to protect the excise tax
Whiskey Rebellion
The federal judges appointed by Adams at the very end of his presidential term
Midnight Judges
A federal law that granted settlers land at low prices
Homestead Act
Pueblo rebels destroyed churches and killed hundreds of Spaniards
Pope’s Rebellion
Metacom attacks New England with his united tribes, colonists won
King Phillip’s War
Every Parliament member represented all British subjects, America rejects this
Virtual Representation
Stanton reads her “Declaration of Sentiments” to a group of feminist activists which launched the ensuing female rights movement
Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
Divided the South into 5 military districts, disenfranchised former Confederates, and required Southern statesto ratify the 14th Amendment
Reconstruction Act
Night during which the Aztecs attacked and drove Cortes and the Spanish away from Tenochitlitan
Noche Triste “Sad Night”
Libel case which established the freedom to print true statements about public officials
Zenger Trial
Spain allows the Americas to freely navigate the Mississippi and Florida Area
Pickney’s Treaty of 1795
Mandated that no more slaves be transported to Missouri and provided for gradual freedom of children born to slave parents
Tallmadge Amendment
Extended federal protection to slavery and ruled that Congress did possess the right to prohibit slavery
Dred Scott v. Stanford