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
Growth of Factories and mass production
Industrialization
River that made Louisiana Valuable
Mississippi
Event where the colonist dumped tea into the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party
What happened to cotton production and slave labor in the U.S. as a result of the cotton gin?
Cotton production increased and slave labor increased.
European country that controlled Louisiana first.
France
Main Aurthor of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
What was the purpose behind the Missouri Compromise?
The U.S. governmnet wanted to have a balance of power between free and slave states.
How did new technology help exploration expand
faster travel, navigation accuracy
Turning point battle that convinced france to support the colonies
Saratoga
What was the Cotton Gin
A mechanical device that separated the seeds from cotton
How did colonization change Native American Societies
Land loss, disease, cultural disruption and conflict
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary war
Treaty of Paris
What state wanted to be a slave state in the Missouri Compromise
Missouri