1491-1609
This changed Pueblo Indians from hunter/gatherer society into agricultural based society, and it allowed for more development of sophisticated agricultural techniques.
What is Maize?
Reason that the Southern Colonies were established
What is to create a source of wealth for England?
Purpose of the Proclamation of 1763
What is to prevent hostilities between Indians and Land-Hungry colonists?
Central issues political parties debate over in the early 1800s (Federalists and Democratic-Republicans)
What are tariffs, power of the federal government, relations with European powers (France and England)?
Reasons for westward migration (Manifest Destiny)
What is the access to natural and mineral resources, economic opportunities for settlers, religious refuge (Mormons)?
The difference between how Native Americans and Europeans viewed land
What are that Native Americans did not believe that they 'owned' the land, but instead moved around to suit the land, while Europeans 'owned' land and treated the land to suit them.
People that established the New England area and this is what they were seeking
What is that New England was first established by Puritans seeking religious freedom.
Impact of the 7 Years' War/ French and Indian war on colonists
What is that France was removed from North America, Britain was in MASSIVE debt, ended salutary neglect, and began taxing the colonists.
Supreme Court decisions/ focus points of the early 1800s (prior to 1810) Under John Marshall
What is the primacy of the judiciary in determining the meaning of the Constitution (judicial review) and giving federal laws power over state governments (Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland)
Results of the US acquiring the Mexican land as westward territories
What is the debates over the status of slavery (Wilmot Proviso), Native Americans, and Mexicans in the newly acquired land?
This is the greatest impact of European contact in the New World
What are diseases that the Europeans brought to the New World from the Old World killed many Native Americans because their immune systems were not prepared to deal with the diseases?
Effects of the Navigation Acts on colonists
What is that it prevented the colonies from trading with other European countries?
Reasons the colonists united in resisting the British in the 1760s and 1770s
What are the various imposing acts? - Stamp, Sugar, Townshend Acts, Intolerable Acts, perceived and real constraints on economic activities and political rights (Quartering Acts).
Impact of the Second Great Awakening
What are moral and social reforms (think abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, etc.)
These were the goals of the Nativist movement
What was the desire to to limit the power and cultural influence of the immigrants (Irish and Germans)?
This is the structure of the slave trade in colonial American.
What is the Triangle Trade?
Caused the increase in slavery after Bacon's Rebellion.
What is that several of Bacon's followers were indentured servants, thus the leaders of Virginia believed that African American slaves would be much more docile, leading to an increase of the slave trade.
The impact of Common Sense by Thomas Paine
What is that it encouraged America to break away from England and helped influence the Declaration of Independence?
Market Revolution impact on production of goods
What is goods were increasingly made outside the home & Women and men began working in factories?
Ways abolitionists campaigned against slavery
What is moral arguments (such as William Lloyd Garrison/ publications), assisting slaves' escapes (such as Underground RR), using violence (such as Bleeding-Kansas and Harpers Ferry)?
Motivations of bringing African slaves into the Americas.
What is that Americas didn't have enough money to pay for all the labor that it needed to make a profit so they looked to Africa for cheap labor.
In this revolution, the English removed James II from the throne and replaced him with William and Mary, who pledge their support to a parliamentary system and thus ended the authoritarian nature of the Dominion of New England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This is the call for women to teach republican values within the family and provided educational opportunities for women.
What is "republican motherhood"?
These 3 factors: Maine was a free state, Missouri was a slave state, everything above 36 30 latitude line would be free, everything below would be slave. This applied to ONLY the Louisiana Purchase. Later overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This as the solution to the Mexican Cession - popular sovereignty would be used in the territory, the slave trade was banned in Washington D.C., California was added as a free state, a more strict fugitive slave law was created.
What was the Compromise of 1850?