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Bering Land Bridge
Land connection between Siberia and Alaska that allowed early people to migrate to the Americas.
Contact Period
The time from Columbus's arrival in 1492 until 1607 when sustained contact began between Europe and the Americas.
Brown v. Board of Education
The 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
The Columbian Exchange
The period of widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, and diseases between the Americas and Europe after 1492.
Mercantilism
An economic theory that emphasizes the importance of accumulating wealth through exports and trade regulation.
Encomienda System
A Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of specific groups of people.
Middle Passage
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the Americas.
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
The Great Compromise
An agreement that established a two-house legislature in the United States, balancing the needs of both large and small states.
Jim Crow Laws
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern United States.
Bering Land Bridge
Land connection between Siberia and Alaska that allowed early people to migrate to the Americas.
Contact Period
The time from Columbus's arrival in 1492 until 1607 when sustained contact began between Europe and the Americas.
Brown v. Board of Education
The 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
The Columbian Exchange
The period of widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, and diseases between the Americas and Europe after 1492.
Mercantilism
An economic theory that emphasizes the importance of accumulating wealth through exports and trade regulation.
Encomienda System
A Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of specific groups of people.
Middle Passage
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the Americas.
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
The Great Compromise
An agreement that established a two-house legislature in the United States, balancing the needs of both large and small states.
Jim Crow Laws
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern United States.
The idea that states