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Before 1700
#1 This food product directly lead to a population boom in Europe. Over several centuries, Native Americans oin Mexico and the SW were able artificially select better strands of this produce, and essentially breed them in to how they would be recognized today Maize/Corn
#2 The idea that the Native peoples had little impact on their environment or that North America was largely untouched wilderness The Pristine Myth
#3 Published the first description of Spaniards brutality on Native Americans in vivid detail. Described torture and execution used upon native Americans by the Spaniards Las Casas
#4 1680. A rebellion of the Native Americans in New Mexico against the Spanish. They drove out the Spanish only to be taken over 12 years later. Pueblo Rebellion
#5 Go to the United states Map. Show me the approxomite location of the Spanish, French, Dutch and English in the 17th century D= hudson Valley, F+ St. Lauwrence Rvier Valley, S= SW and Florida, E= atlantic seaboard
The British Colonies
#1 An act to raise revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents Stamp Act of 1765
#2 Religious revival in the colonies in 1730s and 1740s;attempted to combat the growing secularism and rationalism of mid-eighteenth century America. First Great Awakening
#3 'The Shot Heard Round the World'- The first battle of the Revolution in which British general Thomas Gage went after the stockpiled weapons of the colonists in Massachusetts. Lexington and Concord
#4 Trading System between Europe, Africa, and the colonies; European purchased slaves in Africa and sold them to colonies, new materials from colonies went to Europe while European finished products were sold in the colonies Triangular Trade
#5 This 1651 Act required all goods shipped out of the North American colonies to be carried on British ships and go through English ports supporting mercentialism Navigation Act 1651
The Constitution
#1 An agreement among the thirteen original states, approved in 1781, that provided a loose federal government,There was no chief executive or judiciary, and no way to raise taxes Articles of Confederation
#2 plan proposed at the 1787 Constitutional Convention for creating a national bicameral legislature in which all states would be equally represented in the Senate and proportionally represented in the House. The Connecticut (Great) Compromise
#3 Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
#4 The court case which gave the courts the power to rule over this issue was unconstitutional. established judicial review Marbury v. Madison
#5 the 12th ammendment changed what in the constitution? VP and pres on one ticket
Foreign Policy
#1 This purchase tripled the size of the United States in 1803 LA Purchase
#2 The Democratic Republicans and Federalists clashed after 1787 on how to handle what events on continental Europe? The French Revolution
#3 Undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800. The Quasi War
#4 An act that forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S., was meant to force Britain and France to change their policies towards neutral vessels by depriving them of American trade; hurt the national economy. Embargo Act 1807
#5 Treaty signed in 1794 between the U.S. And Britain in which Britain sought to improve trade relations and agreed to withdraw from forts in the northwest territory Jay's Treaty
Slavery
#1 Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. It removed seeds from cotton fibers. Now cotton could be processed quickly and cheaply which led to an increase in slave labor in the south Cotton Gin
#2 this 1676 rebellion of former indentured servents convinced many southern plantation owners to increase their reliance on African slaves Bacon's Rebellion
#3 Prohibited slavery in the western lands north of the Ohio, but required the returning of slaves from this area to their masters Northwest Ordinance
#4 what are 3 direct references of slavery in the constitution and at least one direct reason the north was unable to abolish it nationally 3/5's compromise, slave trade ptotected until 1808, fugitive slaves to be returned, Senate, Ammendmnet process
#5 in 1820 _______was admited as a slave state and ________ as a free state and all other territories were divided in to free and slave along the _______________ line Missouri, Maine, Mason Dixon line
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