Period 1 (1492-1607)
The transmission and interchange of plants, animals, diseases, cultures, human populations, and technologies between the New World and Old World
The Columbian Exchange
The name given to the journey from Africa to the New World
The Middle Passage
The 1754 war that saw the beginning of rising tensions between the colonies and their mother country
The French and Indian War
Reform movement involving alcohol
Temperance Movement
The event that led to the secession of the South
The election of 1860
What were the three stable crops that many native tribes in North America used?
Beans, Squash, and Corn (the three sisters)
The leader of the Puritans who wanted his people to be a "City Upon a Hill" and be an example for the world to follow
John Winthrop
The law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc?
The Stamp Act
This section of the US was the most industrialized
The north
Debate over this legislative decision led to violence in the West and violence in the legislature itself
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
European country that preferred trade with the Native Americans rather than settlement or conquest
France
What was the name of the group of laws that restricted the lives and freedoms of African slaves in the Chesapeake and Southern colonies?
Slave codes
The rebellion in which a group of farmers were upset and shut down the courts in Western Massachusetts due to foreclosures
Shays' Rebellion
Addressing the issue of slavery, this 1820 agreement admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
The Missouri Compromise
It freed slaves in the southern states
Emancipation Proclamation
System in which Indians provided land owners with labor tribute in exchange for legal protection and religious guidance
Encomienda System
The original source of labor for the plantations in the Chesapeake and Southern colonies
Indentured servants
What are at least three causes of the American Revolution?
French and Indian War, "No taxation without representation", Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Tea tax, Boston Tea Party, Closing of Boston, Intolerable Act, Boston Massacre
The idea that it was God’s will for Americans to expand westward
Manifest Destiny
Name at least two causes of the Civil War
Sectionalism, debate over slavery, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, Election of 1860
This colony was the first permanent, successful English colony
Jamestown
Colonial region in which freedom of religion was one of the main reasons for settlement
Middle Colonies
The group that did not support the Constitution without the Bill of Rights
Anti-Federalists
This conflict resulted in the acquisition of California for the US
The Mexican-American War
This battle was a turning point in the Civil War
Gettysburg or Vicksburg