Genocide
Journey Native Americans were forced to take after lost homes
What is the Trail of Tears?
Enormous Southern farms that produced cash crops with slave labor.
What are plantations?
Popular pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to persuade Americans to support Revolution.
What is Common Sense?
Powers divided between 3 branches of central government (legislative, executive, and judicial)
What is the separation of powers?
Cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
Killer of the most Native Americans.
What is disease?
Smallpox, influenza, measles
War fought partially to expand slavery.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Famous phrase in the Declaration of Independence taken from John Locke.
What is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?
Also: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal"
Keeps power separated in the 3 branches federal government.
What are checks and balances?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
President who strongly supported Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Invention that led to western expansion of slavery
What is the cotton gin?
British decision to separate Americans and Native Americans after the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Compromise between the North and South over how African slaves would be counted for states' population (representation).
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
People infamous for hatred of immigrants and other minority groups
Who are nativists?
Know Nothing Party (KKK)
Native Americans forced to live here after Trail of Tears
What is a reservation?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
British laws to punish American Patriots for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Also accepted: Coercive Acts
Compromise between the Virginia Plan (big states) and New Jersey Plan (small states) over representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
Also accepted: Connecticut Compromise
Letting territories vote on whether to have slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Also: Kansas-Nebraska Act
Most powerful Native American group in the Northeast.
Who are the Iroquois?
Business of buying, kidnapping, and transporting Africans across Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Aka Middle Passage of Triangular Trade
Chief Justice John Marshall's decision establishing judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
John Marshall = early 1800s = fed power
Group who opposed the Constitution and demanded a Bill of Rights be added.
Who are the anti-federalists?
Infamously racist Supreme Court decision.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?