Period 1
Infectious disease brought to America by the Spanish
that affected the native population.
What is small pox ?
The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony founded in May, 1607.
What is Jamestown ?
The first American Constitution that established the United States .
A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American Sailors by the British.
What is The War of 1812?
Won the election of 1860 as the 1st successful Republican (was the president through the Civil War).
What is Abraham Lincoln ?
Spanish System to regulate and control Native Americans.
What is Encomienda System ?
A Practice where plantation owners in the colonies payed for people's voyages in exchange for a certain amount of year's work .
What is Indentured Servitude ?
A created Policy for administering the Northwest Territories
What is the Northwest Ordinance ?
Inspired in part by the rapid influx of immigrants which made Americans feel close ties to their country and therefore showing racist and persecution traits towards the Immigrants.
What is Nativism?
Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War.
What is Wilmot Proviso?
A term used by the Spanish that referred to a people whose ancestors were both European and American Indian.
What is Mestizo ?
The first document to establish self-government in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Patriotic groups that played a central role in agitating the Stamp Act and enforcing non-importation agreements.
What is Sons of Liberty ?
Economic Program that included support for the national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements
What is American System ?
This settled the election of 1876, troops were removed from Louisiana and South Carolina and concessions for building a southern transcontinental railroad made.
What is the Compromise of 1877 ?
Businesses owned by shareholders that invested in exploration and colonization.
What is Joint Stock Companies
Protestant movement that rejected all the sacraments and were discriminated against by other Christians.
What is Quakers ?
A designed plan to pay off U.S. war debts and stabilize economy, program included a national bank, increased tariffs and excise tax on whiskey
What is Hamilton's Financial plan ?
A philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s which emphasized living a simple life while celebrating the truth in nature, emotion, and imagination.
What is Transcendentalism ?
Form of currency used by the union during the Civil War
What is Greenbacks ?