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
An agricultural system that emerged after the Civil War, in which black and white farmers rented land in exchange for giving him a certain share of each year's crop
Sharecropping
A type of radical scathing anti-communism
McCarthyism
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
Believers in the idea, popular in the late nineteenth century, that people gained wealth by "survival of the fittest". Therefore, the wealthy had simply won a natural competition.
Social Darwinism
American project to develop an atomic bomb
Manhatten Project
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
The practice perfected by Andrew Carnegie of controlling every step of the industrial production process in order to increase efficiency and limit competition.
Vertical Integration
Theory that the government should strive to increase the supply, rather than the DEMAND of services and goods
Supply-Side Economics
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
In 1894 strike by railroad workers upset by drastic wage cuts. The strike was led by socialist Eugene Debs but was not supported by the American Federation of Labor.
Pullman strike (1894)
Nixon vs. Krushchev over the effectiveness of a capitalist, consumer economy vs. a communist, state-planned economy
Kitchen Debate
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
An act that broke up Indian reservations and distributed land to individual households. Leftover land was sold for money to fund U.S. government efforts to "civilize" Native Americans.
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
The middle class group of Americans who supported the Vietnam War and the contemporary American politics
Silent Majority