Indigenous America
What devastation did Europeans bring to the Native Americans? What effect did it have?
illnesses and diseases like smallpox that the Natives were not immune to so over 90% of Natives died as a result
What was the first cash crop in the colonies
Tobacco
List 2 of the original 13 colonies
VA, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, NC, SC, GA
What document replaced the Articles of Confederation?
Constitution
What was the Indian Removal Act
passed by Jackson to remove/relocate Cherokee Nation & other tribes - caused Trail of Tears
What is assimilation in regards to the Native Americans?
Natives being forced to give up their culture to become “American”
What region relied heavily on slave labor and exacerbated the slave trade?
Southern Colonies
What was one cause of the American Revolution?
Stamp act, coercive/ intolerable acts, Boston tea party, Boston Massacre
List one problem with the Articles of Confederation
No president, each state had own money, congress had no power to tax, no national courts, no power to enforce laws, laws must be approved by all 13 states
For 15 million dollars, the United States was able to purchase this territory, doubling the size of the nation
The Louisiana Territory
What were most of the Native American Tribes religions like?
Spiritual, animism, ancestor worship, polytheism,
What is an indentured servant?
Someone who agrees to work without pay for a pre-determined amount of time in exchange for a boat ticket to America and the eventual opportunity to own land
Which event FIRST showed that tensions between the British and colonists would turn violent?
The Boston Massacre
The _____________________ combined both of the plans proposed at the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan, and created a two house Congress. One with equal representation and one based on population.
The Great Compromise
idea that US was meant to grow and spread democracy and freedom from Atlantic to Pacific (whole continent).
Manifest Destiny
True or False: Native Americans did NOT have any class distinctions
False
The economic system in which colonies supply raw materials to the mother country, and the mother country exports finished goods
Mercantilism
What were two effects of the revolution?
Treaty of Paris-expanded territory, 13 independent states (a new nation), Articles of Confederation,
Checks and balances refer to…
The institutional checks of power between the three branches of government
List two reasons why people wanted to move West
wealth (gold), own land, Manifest Destiny, civilize an untamed land, spread religion, etc
List 4 Native American Tribes in the region that would become the United States of America
Shoshone, Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, Sioux, Lakota, Yakima, Chumash, Navajo, Mojave, Nez Perce, Iroquois, etc.
What region was least tolerant of other cultures/religions?
New England Colonies
How did the French & Indian War (Seven Years War) play a part in leading up to the Revolution?
The British had a lot of war debt and decided to set new taxes for the colonists.
How is the Constitution different than the Articles of Confederation? (list at least 3 ways)
President, 9/13 states approve to ratify laws, Fed control of interstate and international trade, state and federal courts, power to collect taxes
List two affects of the Westward Expansion on Native Americans
Indian Removal act-Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people were forcibly removed from their traditional homelands to reservations west of the Mississippi River, where last was rougher.
Thousands of indigenous people died on the Trail of tears, many from exhaustion due to having to walk for hundreds and hundreds of miles.
Many indigenous were forced to assimilate to American/European ways of life (loss of indigenous culture)
Disease killed even more Indigenous
Brutal fighting broke out between Natives and Americans-more death
etc