Period 1
The transference of goods, foods, disease, animals, etc. between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A philosophical movement originating in Europe that expressed ideas of reason and science and sparked new thoughts in the British colonies
What is the Enlightenment?
The idea that women should be educated so they can educate their sons on democratic values
What is Republican Motherhood?
The religious revival that sparked a series of reform movements like abolitionism, education, and women's rights
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Laws passed in the Reconstruction South to limit the social, political, and economic freedom of newly freed Blacks
What were black codes?
The Spanish labor system that required Natives be converted to Catholicism in exchange for their enslavement
What is the encomienda system?
The 1676 event led by frontier farmers who were upset by the policies of Jamestown's governor; ultimately led to a shift toward slavery
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The two warnings Washington delivered in his Farewell Address (must name both)
What is avoiding entangling foreign alliances and avoiding political parties?
What is the Embargo Act (1807)?
1846 proposal that tried to outlaw slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The Spanish priest who criticized the encomienda system and recommended slave labor be shifted to Africans
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
A governing document for Plymouth Colony signed by 41 men; the first agreement for self-government in America
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The end of this war led to the beginning of a negative relationship between the colonists and Great Britain
What was the French and Indian War?
The system designed to modernize the economy through tariffs, the National Bank, and internal improvements.
What is the American System?
The election of Rutherford B. Hayes that was part of a decision to allow Republicans to take office and in turn end Reconstruction
What is the Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877?
The Native American tribe in the Northeast that built long houses out of the rich forests
Who are the Iroquois?
One of the ministers who led the First Great Awakening
Who were George Whitefield or Jonathan Edwards?
The acts that were passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, which shut down the Boston Harbor
What are the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)?
The Supreme Court case that gave the Judicial branch the power of judicial review (determine constitutionality of law)
What is Marbury v Madison?
The 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican American War and granted much of the American Southwest to the US
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The Native American tribe in the Southwest that built cliff-dwellings for protection from invaders
Who are the Pueblo?
Laws that required colonists to ship certain products exclusively to England
What were the Navigation Acts?
The United States' first two political parties and their respective leaders
What are the Federalists (Hamilton) and the Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)?
Three events that President Jackson made decisions about state vs federal power
What are the nullification crisis, destruction of the Bank of the U.S., Indian Removal Act?
Three parts of the Compromise of 1850
What are CA as free state, MX cession open to pop. sovereignty, Fugitive Slave Act, DC abolishes slave trade, fed gov't assumes TX war debt