Age of Discovery & the 13 Colonies
The first British colony in the New World was this colony, founded in Virginia in 1607 by John Smith
What is Jamestown?
This popular phrase emerged in the late 1700's in response to the British imposing unfair taxes and penalties against colonists without their say
What is "no taxation without representation?"
What is manifest destiny?
This term refers to loyalty to one's own region of the country (i.e. north and south) than the country as a whole
What is sectionalism?
Industrialization and increased immigration in the Northern U.S. in the late 1800s resulted in this, where cities grew exponentially
What is urbanization?
The 13 Colonies were divided into these three regions, each with their own cultures, religions, and systems of self-governance
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated for years over the inclusion of this in the United States Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson acquired 879,000 square miles of North American territory from France in a transaction known as this
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The network of secret routes and safe houses used by abolitionists and enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada was known as this
What is the Underground Railroad?
People who gained wealth at the expense of others are called this, a term usually directed towards Rockefeller and Carnegie
What is a robber baron?
The cross-Atlantic triangular trade that developed between the New World, Africa, and the Old World was known as this
What is the Columbian Exchange?
As president, Washington set many of these, which included serving for only 2 terms, opposing the formation of political parties, and isolating the U.S. from foreign affairs
What are precedents?
Breaking the precedent of isolationism, the United States declared war on this country to expand westward, particularly over the issue of Texas Annexation
What is Mexico?
Abraham Lincoln's defining act as president during the Civil War was this, proclaiming all slaves in the Confederacy free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This muckraker wrote How the Other Half Lives, detailing poor living conditions in New York City's tenement buildings
Who is Jacob Riis?
While the Southern colonies practiced slavery, Northern colonies utilized these laborers who were contracted for a time to live, work, and serve wealthy business owners
What are indentured servants?
This document refers to the first and unsuccessful experiment in American democracy, granting more power to the states and severely limiting the federal government's ability to raise a military and collect taxes
What are the Articles of Confederation?
When Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, many Native Americans were forcibly removed and embarked on this brutal and deadly journey to their new reservations
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California and Texas into the union as free and slave states respectively while also enacting this, mandating that runaway slaves be returned to the south by federal law
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
In 1848, women at this convention declared the rights of women, setting the agenda for women's suffrage in the century to come
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The colony of New Spain established this caste system, creating a hierarchy between Spaniards, Native Americans, and mixed peoples
What is the encomienda system?
With an ongoing revolution in France, President John Adams signed these acts to protect Americans, restricting the rights of French immigrants and refugees
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Manifest destiny and the abolitionist, temperance, and women's suffrage movements were all created from this Protestant religious revival movement in the early 1800s
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Following the Civil War, the U.S. government ratified these three amendments to begin the process of Reconstruction in the South and enshrine the rights of African Americans in the Constitution
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
As president, Theodore Roosevelt enacted the Square Deal, a piece of progressive legislation that aimed to address these 3 "C's"
What is control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources?