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This group viewed Native Americans as potential fur trading partners, as well as military allies.
Le French
This system is a form of labor trade in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.
Indentured Servitude.
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which argued for the independence of the American colonies from the British Empire.
Common Sense
The practice of giving out government jobs in exchange for government loyalty.
Spoils System
"Remember the ___!" was the battle cry of Texans fighting for independence from Mexico. Also the sight of a battle that ended in the death of every Texan soldier participating in the battle.
Alamo
What region of Native Americans largely relied on their hunting of bison?
The Great Plains Tribes
This period is characterized by its fervent religious changes and practices within the colonies as well as how it changed how colonists viewed authority and unity.
The Great Awakening
This Proclamation prevented Americans from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Proclamation of 1763
The Missouri Compromise
SCOTUS case which occurred when a runaway slave argued that because he lived on free soil, that he was a free slave. He lost the case, when the courts declared that he was still a slave regardless.
Dred Scott Decision
This act was a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians; it tried to end tensions between Protestants and Catholics.
Act of Toleration
This economic policy viewed the colonies and money as political power.
Mercantilism.
This plan, developed by Benjamin Franklin, called for the unification of the colonies militarily and economically.
The Albany Plan of Union
This Supreme Court case established the powers of judicial review. Occurred due to John Adams' midnight appointments.
Marbury v Madison
This law, created by the Compromise of 1850, had the purpose of tracking down, catching, and returning runaway slaves who had escaped North.
Fugitive Slave Law
What best explains why Native American efforts to unite were rare?
A) Isolation
B) European Discouragement
C) Cultural Differences
D) Tribal Traditions of Independence
C) Cultural Differences
What uprising took place in Virginia in response to the slaying of colonists by Native Americans?
Bacon's Rebellion.
This plan developed a bicameral congress, one congress with representation based on population, and one with a set number of representatives for each state.
The Great Compromise (or the Connecticut Plan)
Invention created by Eli Whitney, which promoted the mass expansion of slavery, by allowing farmers to make cloth out of cotton cheaply.
The Cotton Gin
Occurred when violence broke out between abolitionists and border ruffians (proslavery Missourians) in Kansas over the state legislation's slavery position.
Bleeding Kansas
This group seized Constantinople, causing European countries to search for alternate routes to Asia.
The Ottoman Turks.
This person played a key role in the Enlightenment with his book, "Two Treatises of Government", which argued the philosophy of Popular Sovereignty.
John Locke
This speech advised Americans not to get involved in the politics of Europe and not to form political parties lest they divide.
Washington's Farewell Speech
First women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York where the document "Declaration of Sentiments," which argued for the equality of men and women, was written.
Seneca Falls Convention
Book written by Harriet Stowe in 1852 which told a story about a slave and his brutal master. Drove many Northerners to view slavery as an evil and cruel system.
Uncle Tom's Cabin