Exploration & Colonization
Explorer Who reached the Americas in 1492
Christopher Columbus
Tax that caused protest and the Slogan " No taxation without Representation"
What is the Stamp act
Belief that the US was destined to expand west
Manifest Destiny
Growth of Factories and mass production
Industrialization
War fought between the Union & Confederacy
Civil War
River that made Louisiana Valuable
Mississippi
Event where the colonist dumped tea into the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party
Purchas that doubled the size of the US
The Louisiana Purchase
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems
muckrakers
President during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
European country that controlled Louisiana first.
France
Main Aurthor of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Law that forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River
The Indian Removal Act
business leader associated with the oil monopoly
John D. Rockefeller
Order freeing enslaved people in confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
How did new technology help exploration expand
faster travel, navigation accuracy
Turning point battle that convinced france to support the colonies
Saratoga
Migration route Settlers traveled to reach the west
Oregon Trail
Amendment allowing citizens to vote directly for senators
17th Amendment
Amendment that ended slavery
13th Amendment
How did colonization change Native American Societies
Land loss, disease, cultural disruption and conflict
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary war
Treaty of Paris
War with Mexico that gave the US large Western Territory
Mexican-American War
law used to break up monopolies
Sherman Antitrust Act
Southern laws that limited the rights of freedmen