Unit 1 1491-1607
What are the three staple crops that many native tribes relied on?
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Reasons for English settlement in America
What is religious freedom and wealth/economic prosperity?
The last battle of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Political struggle in the rechartering of the National Bank resulted in Andrew Jackson's defunding and shut down of the bank
What is the Bank War?
A secret network of people that offered shelter and help escaped enslaved African Americans to freedom in the North
What is the Underground Railroad?
This Spanish colonizer conquered the Aztecs in 1521
What is Hernan Cortez?
Early local government in Virginia
What is the House of Burgesses?
Term used for colonists who were loyal to the British crown
What is Loyalist or Tory?
American policy in "handling" of Native affairs in the early to mid 1800s
Indian Removal
The practice of allowing state populations decide to whether or not to allow slavery?
What is popular sovereignty?
Modern-day Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico are geographic regions referred to as
What is the Southwest?
Global trade or transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This military conflict led to the taxation of the colonists to pay off debt
What is the French and Indian War?
The United States experienced a technological and economic revolution, resulted in the creation of factories, increase in immigration and mechanization of agriculture
What is the Market Revolution?
The political event that was the last straw and pushed the southern states to seceed
What is the Election of 1860?
What is the Colombian Exchange?
British policy of governing the American colonies
What is salutary neglect?
Political conflict over the raising of tariffs, brought up the debate concerning states' rights amongst Southerners
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Activists who were committed to ending slavery
This practice in Spanish colonization of the Americas granted settlers land and access to Native American labor
What is the encomienda system?
Military conflict between English settlers and the Wampanoag, an example of Indian resistance to settlement 1675-1678
What is Metacom's War or Prince Phillip's War?
The first constitution of the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This court case established that the federal government trumped state governments
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
What is the Great Compromise of 1850?