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French Treatment of Native Americans
Formed alliances, traded, intermarried, adopted culture, and converted to Christianity.
Spanish Treatment of Native Americans
Sought conquest, enforced rule through force, exploited, mistreated, and aimed for Catholic conversion.
English Treatment of Native Americans
Initially traded, later confiscated land, pushed off lands, viewed as obstacles, sought assimilation or eradication.
New England Colonies
Consisted of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, attracted Puritans, craftsmen, merchants, and farmers.
Middle Colonies
Included New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, attracted Quakers, Dutch, English, seeking economic opportunities and religious tolerance.
Southern Colonies
Comprised Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, attracted planters, indentured servants, and enslaved Africans for plantations.
Effects of French and Indian War on British Colonists
Economic strain, increased British control, expansion of territory, and colonist unity.
Shot Heard Around the World
First shot of the Revolution; major battle was Lexington and Concord.
Problems Faced by Washington Leading Continental Army
Low supplies, untrained volunteers, and food shortages.
Articles of Confederation
First constitution regulating 13 colonies, weak central government, allowed state independence.
Virginia and New Jersey Plans and Connecticut Compromise
Proposals for representation at Constitutional Convention, resolved through the Connecticut Compromise.
Bill of Rights
Guarantees individual rights against government, empowers people.
Election of 1800
Peaceful power transfer, Jefferson's presidency, political shift, and electoral system reform.
War of 1812
Defended American sovereignty, fostered unity, strengthened military, and ended with the Treaty of Ghent.
Andrew Jackson
7th president, ran on democratic principles, disliked National Bank, events included Indian Removal Act and Nullification Crisis.
Reconstruction
Controversial period post-Civil War, impacted by corruption and resistance to change.
Teddy Roosevelt
US president, major accomplishments include National Park System and Panama Canal construction.
W.E.B
African American leaders, differed in direct action vs. economic improvement approaches.
Muckraker
Journalist exposing societal issues.
WW1 Impacts on Homefront
Increased women in workforce, African American migration for job opportunities.
Consequences of Prohibition
Rise of illegal organized crime for alcohol supply.
US Return to Isolationism after WW1
Due to debt and focus on domestic issues.
Causes of Great Depression
Overproduction, economic problems, nature, and Hoover's policies.
Hoovervilles
Living spaces by homeless during the Great Depression.
Alphabet Soup
Policies to aid businesses post-Depression, significant agencies like FDIC, HOLC, PWA, AAA, CCC.
US Entry into WW2
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Treatment of Minorities in WW2
Japanese internment, African American military service and job opportunities.
Brown v Board of Education
Ended school segregation.
Containment
US foreign policy to stop Communism post-WW2.
Nixon
Continued Cold War, lost trust, expanded war, Salt 1, Watergate scandal, resigned.
Iran Contra
Illegal arms trade involving Iran, Nicaragua, and Iraq.
Reagan-Gorbachev Meetings
Ended Cold War, significant for US-Russia relations.
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act signed by George H.W. Bush.
Globalization and Clinton
International business development under Clinton.
2000 Election Controversy
Close vote in Florida, Congress involvement.
2008 Financial Crisis
Housing market crash.
George Washington, Ben Franklin, James Madison, Upton Sinclair, John Brown, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Carnegie, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin D
Notable figures in American history.