Period 1
The blending of different European cultures and indigenous beliefs
What is Syncretism?
European settler in a contract of service for a defined amount of time
What is indentured servant?
British practice of permissive governing over the American colonies
What is Salutary Neglect?
This political party advocated for a strong central government and an American economy that favored manufacturing
What is the Federalists?
The exchange of goods, crops, ideas and disease between the Europe and the Americans
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first permanent English settlement
What is Jamestown?
Military conflict between France and Great Britain that left G.B. with war debt
What is the French and Indian War/ Seven Years War?
Americans who fierce opposed and were hostile towards immigrants arriving to the United States due to industrialization
What is Nativists?
Spanish tool for “civilization” or education of the Native American peoples
What is the mission system?
Economic philosophy that states colonies are meant generate wealth for the mother country
What is mercantilism?
The American Patriots’ claim against British policy and heavy taxation
What is "no taxation without representation"?
This declaration established political authority over the Americas and excluded European influence
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Spanish colonial social hierarchy in the Americas
What is the casta/caste system?
The transportation of goods and enslaved Africans between North America, Africa and Europe
What is the Transatlantic Trade/Slave Trade?
Revolutionary War battle that changed the course of the war by convincing the French to support Americans
What is Battle of Saratoga?
Andrew Jackson enacted this policy that displaced Native Americans
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Motives for European exploration
What is god, gold, glory?
Labor system that granted Spanish colonizers plots of land and forced indigenous labor
What is the encomienda system?
Economic policy that regulated trade, generated maximum wealth for England
What is the Navigation Acts?
The court case of Marbury v. Madison established this procedure in which the Supreme Court can decide the constitutionality of a law
What is Judicial Review?