Explain the phrase
Stamp act
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency.
Abolition movement
The movement to end slavery
Where were most of the states that allowed slavery located in the colonies?
Southern States
Officer Thomas Preston
Trail of tears
The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government
Annex
Acquisition on a territory by another country
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Native Americans were forced out of their homes and had to move to the West
a slave who led the most successful slave rebellion in 1831, but was eventually captured and killed.
Nat Turner
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.
Jamestown
The first British colony in America, founded in 1607
Who were the main two countries fighting in the French and Indian war?
Bonus points if you explain who won, and how it affected the Americas
Britian and France
Britian won causing even more turmoil with the colonist and Native Americans
an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Frederick Douglas
What was the significance of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"?
A) It argued for the rights of enslaved people.
B) It inspired widespread support for American independence.
C) It called for reconciliation with Britain.
D) It advocated for the expansion of British control in the colonies.
B
Indentured servant
A person bound by contract to work for someone else for a period of time in return for passage, lodging, and food
This person led lewis and clark on an expedition to map out the rest of the Louisiana territory
Sacagawea
What caused the annexation of Texas from Mexico, and why were the Texians upset with the Mexican government?
Texians revolted agaisnt the Mexican governemt due to the fact that they felt that the Constitution that the government crafted was unconstitutional. One of the major disconnects was in terms of slavery. Mexico wanted slaves to be free in Texas, but Texians felt that there should be slavery allowed in Texas.
Explain the Declaration of Independence in simple terms?
Essentially a list of reasons why the colonies should be independent from british rule
encomienda system
a form of forced and unpaid labor used by Spanish authorities and settlers in the colonies of the Spanish Empire
What was the most lucrative product of the Chesapeake colonies (around the Virginia area)?
Tobacco
Explain the Articles of Confederation?
*200 bonus points if you can explain why it failed
The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
It failed because it had a weak centralized goverment and gave the states too much power.