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Colombian Exchange

1

Fur Trade

1

Spanish Catholic Missions

1

Pueblo Revolt

1

John Smith

2, Jamestowm Colony

Virginia Company

2 joint-stock company that established the Jamestown Colony in 1607, aiming for profit through colonization.

Indentured Servants

2

Headright System

2

a land grant program that incentivized settlement in the Virginia colony by giving settlers land for each indentured servant they brought.

House of Burgesses

2 the first elected legislative assembly in the American colonies, established in Virginia in 1619, allowing settlers to create local laws.

Tobacco

2

West Indies

2 a region in the Caribbean that was a major center for sugar and tobacco production during the colonial era, relying heavily on slave labor.

Sugar

2

New England

2

Mayflower Compact

2

Puritans and Pilgrims

2

Massachusetts Bay

2

a notable colony established in 1630, known for its Puritan settlement aimed at building a "city upon a hill" as a model for Christian living.

Pequot War

2

a conflict between trade and territory

dissenters

2 those who disagreed with the established Church of England, often seeking religious freedom and forming their own communities.

Half Way Covenant

2 allowed the children of parents who had not attained full church membership to be baptized, creating a new class of church members known as partial members, boost church membership.

Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

2

King Philips War

2

Bacon’s Rebellion

2

Mercantilism/Navigation Acts

2

Atlantic Slave Trade, triangle trade, middle passage

2

Stono Rebellion

2 largest slave uprising in 1739, driven by the quest for freedom.

John Locke, Enlightment, Great Awakening

2

Battle of Saratoga

3 turning point, french ally

Battle of Yorktown

3 final battle of the Revolutionary War, leading to British surrender.

Abigail Adams

3 early advocate for women's rights, wife of John Adams.

Loyalists

3

Free blacks

3

coverture

3 legal doctrine limiting women's rights

Treaty of Paris

3 significant agreement ending the Revolutionary War (1783)

Republican Motherhood

3 the idea that women's primary role was to instill civic virtue and morality in their children.

Articles of Confederation

3 first constitution of the United States, established a weak central government and was later replaced by the Constitution.

Shay’s Rebellion

3 showed how weak articls of confed were

Land Ordinance of 1785

3 a law establishing a structured system for surveying and selling the land

Northwest Ordinance 1787

3

a law that provided a method for admitting new states to the Union and established a government for the Northwest Territory.

Constitutional Convention

3

James Madison

3

Virginia & New Jersey Plan

3

Separation of powers/checks and balances

3

3/5 clause

3

Federalist Papers

3

A series of essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.

Bill of Rights

3 added for anti feds to protect individual liberties and limit government power.

strict contructionists/loose

3

Bank of US

3

Whiskey Rebellion

3

Alien and Sedition Acts

3 laws passed in 1798 that allowed the government to deport foreigners and make it harder for new immigrants to vote, curtailing free speech

Washington’s Farewell Address

3

French Rev

3

Impressment

3

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

3 political statements that argued states could nullify federal laws deemed unconstitutional, response to alien and sedition acts

Jay’s Treaty

3 settled unresolved issues from American Rev w Great Britain

Revolution of 1800

4 peaceful transfer of political parties

12th Amendment

4 election process for President and Vice President, establishing separate ballots for each to prevent ties

John Marshall and Marbury v Madison

4 midnight judges

Louisiana Purchase 1803, Louis and Clark

4

Barbary Wars

4

Embargo Act 1807

4 prohibited all American ships from trading with foreign ports, hurt US economy

War of 1812

4 conflict between the United States and Great Britain, mainly over maritime rights and issues of national sovereignty.

Market Revolution (lowell textile mills, mill girls, steamboats, eerie canal, railroad, telegraph)

4

irish and german immigrnats and Nativism and Know Nothing Party

4

Jacksonian Democracy

4 a political movement that championed the rights of the "common man," emphasizing universal white male suffrage and the opposition to elite privilege.

utopian societies

4

Indian Removal Act 1830 and Trail of Tears

4

McCulloch v Maryland 1819

4 established the principle of national supremacy and upheld the constitutionality of the Second Bank of the United States, reinforcing federal authority over state laws.

SC nullification Crisis and Tariff of Abominations

4

corrupt bargain

4 with henry clay

missouri compromise 1820

4

monroe doctrine

4

nat turner’s rebellion

4

transcendentalists, henry david thoreau

4

temperance, abolitionist movement

4

Uncle tom’s cabin

4

elizabeth cady stanton, seneca falls convention, grimke sisters

4 leading figure in women’s rights, organized seneca falls convention

manifest destiny

6

oregon trail, cali gold rush

5

“Remember the Alamo”

5

Texas Independence

5

Mexican American War

5

Oregon Treaty 1846

5 formalized the border between the United States and British North America west of the Rocky Mountains.

Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo 1848

5 ended the Mexican-American War, ceding substantial territory to the United States.

Mexican cession

5 territory given to US from treaty of hidalgo

Compromise of 1850

5 Cali enters as free state, ban slave trade in DC, stricter fugitive rule, est official territories

popular sovereignty, kansas nebraska act 1854, bleeding kansas

5

Dred Scott v Sandford 1857

5 Supreme Court case affirming that African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not regulate slavery in territories.

lincoln douglas debates

5

civil war

5

john brown raid 1859

5 Harpers Ferry aimed to initiate a slave uprising and challenge the institution of slavery.

fort sumter

5 site of the first battle of the Civil War, Confederate forces fired upon Union troops in April 1861.

emancipation proclamation

5

13th amendmetn

5

anaconda plan

5 Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy by blockading ports and controlling the Mississippi River.

freedmen’s bureau

5

reconstruction era/acts

5

KKK, black codes

5

15th amendment

5 Prohibits denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

enforcement acts

5 laws aimed at combating KKK violence and protecting voting rights for African Americans.

carpetbaggers

5 Northerners who moved South after the Civil War, often seeking economic opportunities or political power.