Colonization and Settlement
A system of economics where countries need to sell more than they buy; colonies help
What is mercantilism?
Shays' Rebellion shows the country that the Articles of Confederation are
What is weak?
An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example
What is a precedent?
People decide whether they wanted the state to be free or slave
What is popular sovereignty?
Granting heads of families 150 acres of surveyed public lands
What is the Homestead Act?
The region of the United States that a lumberer or a shipbuilder would live in
What is New England Colonies?
Declaration of Independence tells the King this
What is the wrongs he did to the colonies?
Not helping or aiding either side in a conflict
What is neutrality?
Ex-slaves worked on plantations and paid rent in crops
What are sharecroppers?
To assimilate the Native Americans into American society
What is the Dawes Act?
British and Native American tensions during the period of colonialism were caused by (3 answers)
What are tramping of land, stealing land, and westward expansion
The reasons the Anti-Feds wanted a Bill of Rights (2)
What are individual rights and protection from government?
U.S. merchants could not trade with any other nation
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
This type of person helped Andrew Jackson get elected in 1828
What is the common man?
American mining and massive hunting of the buffalo
What is the cause to the Battles of Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn?
Outcome of the French and Indian War that caused tension between the Colonies and British
What is the huge debt that the British had to pay off
Challenges of the newly independent U.S. (3)
U.S. merchants couldn't trade with France or Britain
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
Congress tried to balance the power of free states and slaves states by letting Maine in as free and Missouri in as slave
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The response to child labor, long working hours, low pay, and dangerous working conditions
What is the Progressive Movement?
Society-wise how did the Middle Colonies compare to the New England and Southern colonies
What is more diversity?
Soldiers cannot stay in a citizens home
What is the third amendment?
The rebellion that proved the federal government was strong enough
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Reconstruction Plan that divided the South into 5 military districts
Industrialization, Social Darwinism, and Nationalism caused
What is imperialism?