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| The global transfer of living things; began with Columbus' first voyage |
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Virginia Company's settlement; named for their king
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| Religious group that felt the church had kept too much catholic ritual; wanted to "purify" the church my eliminating all traces of Catholicism |
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Crop grown primarily for sale rather than livestock feed
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Slave uprising. 20 slaves gathered at the Stono River and killed planter families. This scared Southern Colonists, leading to tightening of existing harsh slave laws
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| Movement in which philosophers valued reason and the scientific method |
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| Proclamation line along the Appalachians which colonists were not allowed to cross in order to avoid conflict with that Native Americans |
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Economic system in which a nation could increase its wealth and power in 2 ways:
1. By obtaining as much gold and silver as possible
2. Establishing a favorable balance of trade (sold more goods than bought) |
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Conflict in North America that was part of a worldwide struggle between Britain and France. Ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain
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Colonies' fight for independence from Britain
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| Wandering from place to place |
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| A culture with no recognized authority figures; where all are considered equal |
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| A direct western route from Europe to Asia |
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| Spanish explorers who conquered the new lands they discovered |
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| The people who originally inhabit an area; natives |
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| A Spanish settlement built to convert Native Americans to Christianity |
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| A Spanish settlement that served both as a trading center and as a garrison to defend Spanish territories |
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| Elected officials in Puritan communities who decided such issues as taxes and land dispensation |
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| Opposition to the use of force |
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| A person who agreed to work for a set number of years in return for passage to the Colonies |
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| A tax levied on goods coming into an area, such as the tax the British Parliament imposed on sugar entering the American colonies |
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A tax levied on goods produced and consumed within an area, such as the stamp tax imposed by the British Parliament on the American colonies
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| Betrayal of one's government |
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A written document of a plan of government
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| The formal outlawing of slavery |
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| The current situation or condition |
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A British law under which a woman's inherited property belonged to her husband
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| To officially approve and accept |
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| Currency consisiting of gold or silver coins a opposed to paper |
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| The system by which each of the three branches of government prevents the others from gaining excessive power |
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| The right to be represented by delegates chosen in a free election |
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| More than 50 percent of a group |
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| A written change or addition |
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| A body of people appointed by the Prsident to lead the various departments of government and to serve as thye President's official advisers |
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| In the late 1700s, the amount of money owed to Americans and to other countries after the American Revolution; the total amount of money owed by the federal government |
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| A person who buys property, such as land or bonds, in the hope that its value will go up |
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| Not choosing a side in a confilict |
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| Forced into public service, as American sailors forced to serve on British vessels in the late 1700s |
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| A restriction or stoppage of trade |
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| The area where colonist-settled lands bordered on lands of Native Americans |
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| A flat-bottomed, square-ended craft that was typically used to transport goods along inland waterways in the early 1800s |
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Fabric, especially woven or knitted; cloth
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| A road on which travelers must pay tolls |
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| A tax or fee on imported goods |
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| An arrangement by which victorious parties or candidates reward their supporters with jobs, contracts, etc. |
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| A devotion to local interests over those of the larger group |
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| A type of music that combines the words of traditional Protestant hymns with various musical styles |
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| A person who has escaped from slavery and is running from the law |
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| The act of offically withdrawing from a group |
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Freedom from bondage; particularly, freedom of African Americans from slavery
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| A mob action in which a person is executed without a trial, often by hanging |
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| Policy of breaking the enemy's will by destroying food, shelter, and supplies |
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An act by which the government grants pardon for crimes to a large group of individuals, usually in responce to the group's acts of consolation
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| Laws adopted in the South that severely restrictecd the rights of newly freed slaves |
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| A system in which landowners provide farmers with land, seed, and supplies in exchange for a share in the crop |
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| A Northern opportunist who moved to the South and took advantage of unsettled post-Civil War conditions; scornfully dubbed carpetbagger, after a kind of homemade luggage that many of them carried |
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| Dividing voting districs in a way that increases or decreases representation by a certain group or party |
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| Act imposing a tax on documents and printed items such as wills, newspapers, and playing cards. The stamp was placed on the item to prove that the tax had been paid. It was the first tax that affected the colonists directly |
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| Indians dumped 18000 pounds of East India Company's tea into the Boston Harbor |
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| Mob gathered in front of the Boston Customs House and taunted British soldiers standing guard. Shots were fired and 5 colonists were killed are morally wounded |
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| One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty. Led the colonists to boycott British goods. I think we need more information on him so again, if anyone finds anything else important post it on the wall. |
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Paul Revere and a few others rode out to spread the word that 700 British troops were headed for Concord. When the British reached Lexington (5 miles before Concord) one of the colonists (minutemen) fired and the British soldiers began shooting. When the British reached Concord they found an empty arsenal and began their retreat back to Boston. The retreat became a slaughter between the colonists and the British.
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| European assistance during the revolution |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| Declared independence from Britain |
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Offered a two-house congress to satisfy both small and big states
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| The official approval of the constitution, or an amendment, by the states |
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| Age 88 has all of them. I'm not sure which ones we need to know so just read over all of them. |
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| Clause that stretches the power of the government. The power to "make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers that the Constitution enumerates" |
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Government in which citizens rule through their elected representatives
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| The first ten amendments to the Constitution. Consist of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms |
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The provisions in the Constitution that prevent any branch of the government from dominating the other two branches
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| Secretary of state-Thomas Jefferson, treasury- Alexander Hamilton War-Henry Knox |
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| Four measures, three of which raised residents' requirement for US citizenship from 5 yrs to 14 yrs, and allowed the president to deport or jail any alien he considered undesirable. The fourth set fines and jail terms for anyone trying to hinder the operation or who spoke out against the government. |
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| States had the right to consider void any act of congress that they deemed unconstitutional. |
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| Instead of choosing president directly, each state choose a group of electors who would cast ballots for presidential candidates. |
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| Virginia lawyer who was chosen to prepare the final draft of the Declaration of Independence. Add more to this. |
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| Court case that results in judicial review- the right for the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional. |
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| A policy of US opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the western hemisphere announced by president Monroe. |
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| Against Great Britain because they threatened American Shipping. |
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| Beat Andrew Jackson, appointed Henry Clay as Secretary of State. Conflict between Jackson and Clay tore apart the Democratic-Republican party. |
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| Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri as slave, the rest of the Louisiana Territory was split into two parts. |
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| The right for the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional. |
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| The forced march the Cherokee followed from Georgia to the Indian Territory |
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| Women's rights convention wanted women's suffrage |
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| Led a rebellion of him and 50 other slaves, they attacked 4 plantations and killed 60 whites; he was eventually captured and executed. |
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| Emphasized that truth could be discovered intuitively by observing nature and relating it to emotions and spiritual experiences. |
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| Escaped from bondage to become an outspoken critic of slavery. He began his own antislavery newspaper called the North Star. |
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| Compromise of 1850 (to please the North) |
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| California is admitted as a free state. |
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| Compromise of 1850 (to please the South) |
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| More effective fugitive slave law is put into effect |
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| Compromise of 1850 (to please both sides) |
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| Popular sovereignty in Utah territories or New Mexico. |
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| The right to vote for or against slavery |
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Not only permitted extension of slavery, but guaranteed it. Just because you are in a free state, you are not a free man. Taney argues that Scott had no grounds to go to court because he was not a citizen he was property, 5th amendment supports him.
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| Abolitionist who led a group of abolitionists into Harper's Ferry. |
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| Seize federal arsenal and start a slave uprising. Revolutionary because it was the first time white and black men were willing to die for slavery. |
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| White female author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book criticized slavery and the South took it as a criticism of their way of life. |
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| Opposed extension of blacks into the Northern territory, because they feared competition for jobs would drive down wages. |
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Government would pardon all confederated who would swear allegiance to the Union. As soon as 10% of those who had voted took this oath, a confederate state could form a new state government and send representatives and senators to congress.
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| Plan tried to break the planter's power by excluding high ranking Confederates and wealthy Southern landowners from taking the oath. He believed that white men alone must manage the South. |
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