Really Early America
Spread of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Name of the document, inspired by Common Sense and Enlightenment ideals, which also inspired France and countries in Latin America to experience revolutions.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Name of the seller and the purchaser of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
Who are Napoleon Bonaparte and Thomas Jefferson?
This abolitionist and religious zealot was responsible for the Potawatamee Creek Massacre and the raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
Name three reasons for manifest destiny.
What are natural resources, religious freedom, and economic opportunities?
Spanish system of granting land to colonists in the New World. This system exploited Native Americans and resources. Eventually, Native American labor was replaced with African slave labor.
What is the encomienda system?
Name of the first government of the US that was characterized by weak central authority and no power of taxation.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The spinning jenny, the cotton gin, the steamboat, the mechanical reaper, the steel plow, canals and steamboats are all examples of this.
What are technological innovations of the Market Revolution?
The spinning jenny, the cotton gin, the steamboat, the railroad, and the canal system were all examples of this.
What were technological innovations of the market revolution?
Define manifest destiny and name the newspaper editor who first coined the phrase.
What is America's god-given right to expand from coast to coast, our justification for territorial expansion. Who is John O'Sullivan?
Time period that focused on reason and knowledge and promoted new ideas about government (natural rights, consent of the governed, separation of powers). These ideas helped influence the American Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?
Name of the battles that began the Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Name of the Supreme Court Chief Justice who was responsible for many early landmark cases which established the primacy and oversight of the judicial branch.
Who is John Marshall?
Name several leading women's rights activitists.
Who are Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, the Grimke sisters...
Name two ways that American acquired territory during the time period of manifest destiny. Give one example of each.
What are war (Florida, Mexico) and negotiations (Oregon, Gadsden purchase)
Economic policy that focuses on making money for the mother country. This policy favors a positive balance of trade for the mother country and the accumulation of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
The purpose of the Bill of Rights.
What are the compromises to the Federalists to allow for ratification of the Constitution? What are guarantees that Congress will not step on individual liberties?
President Monroe's message to Europe to NOT colonize any new land in Latin America. The US would stay out of European affairs.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Name at least 3 of the 5 parts of the Compromise of 1850.
What is...
- California enters Union as free state
- abolish slave trade in DC
- harsher fugitive slave laws
- popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession
- Texas pays for border dispute
This state entered the Union in 1818, after a soon-to-be-president chased Indians into Spanish territory and executed a few Brits.
What is Florida?
Name of the region of colonies founded by mostly Puritans, a group of like-minded individuals. These colonies tended to be close-knit and had longer life expectancies than other English colonies. The economy was a mix of farming and trade.
What is New England colonies?
This party favored the creation of the first National Bank of the United States (BUS).
Who are the Federalists?
Name two important elements of the Northwest Land Ordinances.
What is they prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territories and they allowed for a path to statehood?
The consequences of the Dred Scott decision.
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What was the sectional split in the Democratic party?
What was the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional?
What was slavery was allowed in all the territories of the US?
The main reason why James K. Polk won the election of 1844.
What is he supported the annexation of Texas and America's manifest destiny? What is Henry Clay was wishy-washy and kept changing his mind?