Period 2
Difference between northern, southern, and middle colonies.
Northern - Rocky and cold terrain, fishing, shipbuilding, manufacturing, religion (puritans)
Middle - Fertile land, temperate climate, wheat corn livestock, some manufacturing, religious tolerance and minimal slave ownership, Quakers, Anglicans, Catholics
Southern - Warm and humid climate, very fertile soil and long growing seasons, cash crops like tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton, slave-trade economy, aristocracy and plantation owners
The "buffer colony" established to separate south Carolina from Spanish ruled Florida.
The colony of Georgia
French plus Indians allied against Britain and Colonists. French lose and cede land in North America. As a result, colonists taxed for money because of British war debts.
French and Indian War(Seven Years War)
Core values of the New Right.
What are religion, free markets, Anti-New Deal beliefs, Anti-Communistic beliefs
This epidemic arose in the early 1980's and continued into the early 1990's.
What is the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Exchange of foods, resources, animals, plants, and disease between Europe, Africa, South America, North America, and Caribbean
Colombian Exchange
What happened as a direct result of Britain limiting colonial involvement in foreign trade.
Smuggling by colonials.
Ended Seven Years War, Britain gains a significant amount of North American continent.
Treaty of Paris 1763
US selling weapons to Iran and using money to support a Pro-Democracy Nicaraguan group in order to free hostages in Iran and promote democracy in Civil-War Nicaragua.
What is the Iran-Contra affair
What happened as a direct result of the Iranian Shah being overthrown following his cancer treatment in New York?
What is 66 US embassy members were held hostage
Define Salutary Neglect
Essentially England would leave the colonies alone and relax regulation as long as the colonies were profitable and "behaved."
Political alliance and cultural community of Native American tribes inhabiting the region of the Great Lakes
Iroquois Confederation
Disputes of claims over this region of America led to the French and Indian War.
Ohio River Valley
Term for increasing prices correlated to an economic stand still (decreasing employment and economic decline)
Stagflation
Computer companies who were popularized during the wealth revolution of the 80's.
What are Apple, IBM, and Microsoft
First democratically elected legislative assembly in the North American colonies in Jamestown, Virginia
House of Burgesses
Colonial grievances over land ownership and restriction on attacking Native Americans for land. Led to the Burning of Jamestown
Bacon's Rebellion.
This general was defeated in the forests near Pittsburgh in 1775 during the French and Indian War and led to the uprising of young George Washington.
General Braddock
Country that Saddam Hussein Invaded.
Kuwait
The first female Supreme Justice.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor
Impact of Great Awakening on the north v. south
North - Religious beliefs led to an increase in morally acceptable values like involving women and minorities with certain rights.
South - Led to white supremacy with a belief that God made white people above all other races, increased desire for slavery.
Individuals who were shipped to the Americas by the Virginia Company; had to serve years of debt in the form of labor for freedom.
Indentured Servants
These acts forced colonists to manufacture and trade through ONLY British companies.
Navigation Acts (1661-1670
Explain Reaganomics.
Lowering taxes and investing in businesses, this would allow businesses to spend more on improving the business as a whole leading to more production for the economy.
One of Gorbachev's policies allowing more freedoms and openness for citizens of the Soviet unions.
What is Glasnot