Unit 1 (1491-1607)
What Is the Columbian Exchange?
The Massive Transfer of plants, animals, culture, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Old world and the New World
What impacts did the Great Awakening have
It challenged religion beliefs, forming unity, and promoted individualism.
What is the American Revolution?
A war for U.S. Independence
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
A movement that emphasized personal salvation, emotions, and ideas of a perfect society.
What is Black Codes?
Laws that were created to discriminate, restrict and control Black people after the civil war.
What was the most important crops in the Americas?
Maize (corn), Beans and Squash
often known as the 3 sisters.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
An agreement signed by the passengers in the ship that established self-governing in the colonies.
What caused the 1812 war? what other name would this war be called?
A war between the U.S. and Great Britain over trade restrictions, impressment of American sailors, and the British supporting the Native Americans.
The Second War of Independence.
Who was Andrew Jackson? What is the name of the political party he was part of?
He was a Democratic-Republican president
What caused the Civil War? What was the final trigger for the Civil War?
The North and South's different views towards slavery and Economic differences.
The election of Abraham Lincoln.
What was created to navigate faster and more accurate to travel the the Americas?
The Magnetic Compass
What are Indentured Servants?
Poor Europeans who signed contracts to work under a master for a certain number of years
name two people that helped write the US Constitution?
James Madison (founding father of the Constitution), Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouverneur Morris
What is the market Revolution?
What is the Manifest Destiny?
The belief that the Americans deserves to expand westward.
Name one of the main Native American society before US colonization
The Cahokia, The Pueblos, The Iroquois, The Comanche, The Sioux, The Chinook, The Tlingit
What is the 7 year war?
A war between the colonies and Great Britain vs The French and Native Americans to have control in the Americas.
Why did England pass the Intolerable Acts on the Colonies? Name one act out of the four that came from the Intolerable Acts
To Punish the Colonies after the events of the Boston Tea Party
The Boston Port Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, The Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
A document that established European powers can not interfere with the western hemisphere.
Who gave the Gettysburg Address speech? Why was it important?
President Lincoln
It established the civil war was about freedom and equality
What is Encomienda?
A system that granted Spanish settlers to use Indigenous forced labor
Name one reason that caused the Bacon Rebellion
The Bacon Rebellion was caused due to the falling prices of Tobacco, increase of taxes and prices of goods, lack of protection from Native American attacks, and the unfair Berkeley policies that favored the wealthy.
What is the articles of confederation
The First U.S. Constitution with a much weaker federal government.
What new Amendments did the Reconstruction Plans create?
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment