Period 2: 1607–1754
an intellectual movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason and science over blind faith.
What is the Enlightenment?
The first ten amendments of the Constitution that was added in 1791
What is the Bill of Rights?
US doctrine that warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further intervention in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was justified and their God-given right
What is the Manifest Destiny?
agricultural system that emerged after the Civil War in which ex-slaves still worked on plantations
What is sharecropping?
colonies temperate climates and an agriculture-based economy in which cash crops like tobacco, indigo, and cotton were cultivated for trade
What are the Chesapeake colonies?
A pamphlet written in 1776 that called for the colonists to realize their mistreatment and push for independence from England.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine
war fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights (impressment of sailors).
What is the War of 1812?
passed in 1865: freed all slaves and abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States
What is the 13th Ammendment?
federal law that sold settlers 160 acres of land for cheap, if they lived on it for five years and improved the land. This helped promote Western land expansion/developement
What is the Homestead Act?
a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World in 1620
What is the Mayflower compact?
acts that put an import duty on things such as glass, lead, paper, and tea in 1767
What are the Townshend Acts?
the first women's rights convention held in New York "to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman"
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
slogan that refers to a dispute between the United States and Great Britain over Oregon Country
What is "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"
federal legislation that prohibited further Chinese immigration to the United States. This was the first major legal restriction on immigration in U.S history
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers against the colonial government in Jamestown in protest of Native Americans in the colony
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
adopted in 1787 to provide a method for admitting new states into the Union
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
widespread financial crisis in the US caused by extensive speculation of western lands
What is the Panic of 1812?
agreement made by US parties on the slavery status of the territories acquired in the Mexican–American War in order to resolve disputes
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of segregation laws, saying that as long as blacks were provided with "separate but equal" facilities, these laws did not violate the 14th Amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
system that allowed landowners to purchase fifty acres of land for every immigrant whose journey they sponsored. Helped expand the thirteen British colonies in North America
What is the Headright System
gave America free navigation of the Mississippi from the Spanish
What is the Pickney Treaty?
a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century that emphasized salvation and a personal connection with God
What is the Second Great Awakening?
United States paid Mexico $10 million for a portion of land that eventually became apart of Arizona and New Mexico
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
a spiritual movement that arose among Western American Indians to fight American westward expansion
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?