European Exploration
Reasons for European Exploration
God Gold and Glory
Religion, Wealth, Fame, Landownership, Trade Routes
A crop that can be easily sold for profit, such as tobacco, sugar, or cotton,
Cash Crop
The law that places taxes on all paper goods
The Stamp Act
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
The Bill of Rights
An interpretation of the constitution that believes that it only gave powers specifically listed in the constitution
What is Strict Construction?
The policy of not choosing side in a conflict or war between other countries
A strong sense of loyalty and devotion to one’s nation
What is Nationalism?
The idea that common people should control the government
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
The nation that funded and sent Christopher Colombus overseas to Explore
Spain
A formal document that outlined a colonies geographic boundary and specified how it would be governed
A Charter
The British American conflict that resulted in the shooting and killing of American colonists
The weak and unsuccessful first written government of the United States
What are The Articles of Confederation?
To refuse to enforce a Federal law
What is Nullification?
The act of forcibly recruiting people, especially sailors, into military or naval service against their will
What is Impressment?
The Unexplored Wilderness
What is the Frontier?
The Conflict between Jackson and South Carolina about the legal power for state and federal government
What is the Nullification Crisis?
a great exchange of plants, animals, and diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.
The Colombian Exchange
The first successful English colony
Jamestown, Virgina
The pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that used logical arguments to convince colonists that Independence was necessary
Common Sense
The meeting held to revise the Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Convention
The political party that supports a mercantilist economy, a strong national government, and the national bank
Agreement between the United States and Great Britain that avoided war by establishing trade rules
The Jay Treaty
The minstrel character that is a stereotypical depiction of African Americans and of their culture.
What is Jim Crow?
The law that authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The brutal, deadly forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas
The Middle Passage
A regional colony that was culturally and religiously diverse.
The Middle Colony
The purpose of the Declaration of Independence
To explain to the world why Americans were separating from Great Britain.
The armed uprising of farmers against the state for threatening to take their land due to their unpaid debts
Shay's Rebellion
It's purpose is to advise the President on any subject relating to the duties of the executive branch.
What is the president's cabinet?
Failed peace negotiations between the U.S and France
What is the XYZ Affair?
an economic system based on private ownership, where individuals and companies produce and distribute goods for profit.
What is Capitalism?
The forced removal and journey of Native nations (Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole) to Oklahoma
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Italian man whose book about the riches in china inspired European Exploration
Marco Polo
The Regional colony that provided public school to teach students to read and write
The English Colonies
The conflict between countries over the ownership of the Ohio Valley.
The French Indian War
The Division of Power between the Federal Government and State Government
What is Federalism?
The four laws passed by the federalist party to protect against foreign threats.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Created a separate ballot for President and Vice president that would prevented future ties in elections.
What is the 12th Amendment?
The intense loyalty to one region over the other
What is sectionalism?
The act of only appointing loyal supporters to government positions
What is the Spoils System?
The three main ways European Exploration and Colonization affected Native Americans
Loss of Life, Loss of Tradition, Loss of Land
Elected members of their community which made their laws.
Colonial Assembly
Which battle convinced France to support the Americans
The Battle of Saratoga
The compromise that resolved a major dispute between large and small states by providing representation based on population in the House of Representatives and equal representation in the Senate (two senators per state).
The Great Compromise or The Connecticut Compromise
The theory that states have the right to nullify unconstitutional laws
States Rights Doctrine
A result of the War of 1812
What is the Federalist party collapse?
What is the weakening of native Resistance?
What is the increase in national pride?
This system called for taxes on imported goods, federal spending on transportation projects and a new national bank.
What is the American system?
a political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States
What is the Bank War?