The Colonies
Nickname of the Middle Colonies
What were the Breadbasket Colonies?
The use of currency (money), jobs, limited raw materials for the production of goods.
What is Economics?
Associated with the National Bank
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Based on large plantations exporting tobacco, rice, & cotton.
What is Southern Colonial Economy?
Supporters of Thomas Jefferson
Who were Democratic Republicans?
Required Colonists to pay a tax on public documents such as newspapers, custom documents, legal papers & licenses. (Year of 1765)
What is the Stamp Act?
Opposition of Andrew Jackson
What was the National Bank?
Forced colonists to provide housing for British Soldiers. (British could spy, and ensure that no one was breaking laws/ was an invasion of privacy) (Year of 1765)
What is the Quartering Act?
Angered Northerners who would not have been concerned with slavery. (Compromise of 1850.)
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865.
Who was Jefferson Davis?