chapters 1-5
How did geography impact Native American societies?
Normally the societies would settle near lakes rivers, and valleys.
what was the battle of saratoga?
what is the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
whats is the convict lease system?
what is a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations?
mercantilism
what is the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism?
what role did religion played in the relationship between British colonists and the Native Americans.
what is attempted to enforce strict religious observance through both colony governments and local town rules?
how did Jackson destroy the Second National Bank?
what is he ordered the Secretary of the Treasury to take the money out of the national bank and put it in pet banks, state banks that were friends of Jackson. These pet banks lent out money to poor farmers, who could not pay the money back.
How and why did federal Reconstruction policies evolve between 1865 and 1870?
what is because Radical Republicans were most dominant in Congress?
what did the 13th admendment do?
what is give freedom to all slaves?
How did Africans resist enslavement?
What is day to day resistance; Breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage
what is the monroe doctrine?
Whats is a warning to European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs?
How did westward expansion (Manifest Destiny) contribute to the growing tensions associated with the issue of slavery in the Antebellum period?
what is by raising the pressing question of whether new states being admitted to the Union would allow slavery or not?
indentured servant
what is an indentured servant or indentured laborer was a man who took out a loan, most often to pay for the cost of his transportation to a job location?
What was the Enlightenment?
what is a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority?
To what extent did the cotton gin radically alter the institution of slavery in America following the American Revolution?
While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.
To what extent did the Fugitive Slave Act increase sectional conflict between the North and South?
what is, it angered the Northern Abolitionists because they were forced to return slaves.there was an abundance of white people trying to help slaves gain freedom, this was in issue because the south felt as if the constitution did not protect the rights of the slave owners?
what is manifest destiny?
what is he 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
In what ways were Native American societies advanced, even prior to European contact?
what is nomadic, hunting and defending themselves with stone tools clubs, and spears, which were at times tipped with wellcrafted, fluted stone points?
what is Jacksonian Democracy?
what is a 19th century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institution?
To what extent did the Mexican-American War divide America?
What is the Mexican-American war changed the slavery debate. It almost doubled the size of the United States and began a debate, between Northerners and Southerners, over what to do with the newly acquired land.
what is evangelicalism?
what is evangelicalism needs to be understood not only as a religious movement, but also as a social movement. As such, it was an integral part of a broader organizational revolution that transformed nineteenth century American society?