Unit 1
Groups who gathered materials by navigating the land and water for their resources (hunting, fishing, berries…).
What are hunter and gatherers?
Someone who supported the American revolution
What is a patriot?
Led by Hamilton and supported a loose interpretation of the Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
Americans move west through divine right to control land “from sea to shining sea.”
What is Manifest Destiny?
Party of Lincoln, was focused on the issue of stopping the spread of slavery (and later abolishing it)
What is the Republican Party?
Trade of food and diseases between the Americas and Europe
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Colonists could not move past the line to prevent fighting with the Native Americans.
What is proclamation line of 1763?
Doubled the size of the United States, played a role in the idea of Manifest Destiny
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Meeting of reformers that focused on expanding Womens rights, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A series of conflicts between the French (with the aid of Native Americans) & the British (eventually getting some Native American support) over lands they desired to control.
What is the French and Indian War?
Relaxed enforcement of laws
What is salutary neglect
Putting ones regional interest over that of the nation
What is Sectionalism?
Led an unsuccessful slave uprising that led to increased violence against black Americans in the South
Who is Nat Turner?
The first state to secede
What is South Carolina?
The economic policy where you want a favorable balance of trade (more exports than imports)
What is mercantilism?
Writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Preserves balance of free and slave states, outlawed slavery above the 36 degree line
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Treaty that ends the Mexican American War, and gave the US land in the South and Southwest
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Ended slavery in the United States
Laws that forced the colonies to only trade with England
What are the Navigation Acts?
A tax on paper that angered the upper classes of society. Led to widespread protests
What is the Stamp Act?
Political agenda that warned Europe to not get involved in affairs in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Religious movement that focused on the individuals ability to gain salvation, helped led to the reform movements of the 19th century
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Ended Slavery in states in open rebellion
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?