Unit 1
First Permanent English Settlement by the Virginia Company
Jamestown
An affordable way for common people to get information, created by Ben Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac
Favored strong national governments, argued that checks and balances would safeguard people's liberty
Federalists
A canal which linked lake Erie and the Hudson river, lowering shipping costs and fueling economic boom
The belief that it is the God Given destiny for the US to expand Westward
Manifest Destiny
An agricultural enterprise which revolved around slavery or colored labor
Plantation Agriculture
Unofficial Policy of relaxed British control over the colonies
Salutary Neglect
First 10 Amendments on the US Constitution
Bill of Rights
A political party opposed to Andrew Jackson
Whigs
Widely read novel which dramatized the horrors of slavery, gathering North support
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Economic theory that trade makes wealth and that a government should encourage and protect it
Mercantilism
A rebellion in which about 100 slaves rebelled on a Sunday while everyone was at church
Stono-Rebellion
Battle between the US and British over trade and impressment, ended in a draw
War of 1812
Seventh President of the United States, got rid of the National Bank
Andrew Jackson
Civil War fought just in Kansas over slavery before the US Civil war
Bleeding Kansas
Native American revolt which drove Spanish settlers out of New Mexico
Pueblo Revolt
Thomas Paine's Pamphlet spread through the colonies to urge declaring independence
Common Sense
A political party that advocated for a limited federal governments and more states rights
Democratic Republicans
Forced march of Natives, relocating them to another territory, ended up killing thousands
Trail of Tears
11th president of the United States, wanted Jacksonian Democracy
President Polk
An armed rebellion led by Virginia settlers, also the first popular uprising in the American Colonies
Bacon's Rebellion
"Little Parliaments" or representative bodies in the American Colonies
Colonial Assemblies
Marbury vs Madison
Literary and Intellectual movement, emphasizing individualism and self reliance.
Transcendentalism
A slogan for the US to claim all territory 54 degrees, and 40 minutes or fight the Britain for it