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30,000 BCE is when this class began....
#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 The ______________ refers to the biological exchange after 1492 that radicly altered the ecosystems and human popuatins of the world Colombian Exchange
#4 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
#5 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
Brits becoming Americans
#1 published in 1776 this pamphlet criticized hereditary monarchy and changed the aims of the American Revolution Common Sense
#2 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
#3 created by the King as a reaction to the high cost of fighting the French and Indian War. He was hoping to reduce the conflict between Native Americans and English Settlers by stopping whites westward movement Proclomation line of 1763
#4 Which 17th century colony do the following characteristics describe: Labor system based on white indentured servants and African chattel slavery, Most settlers were young poor men, extreemly high mortality rates, focused on exploitation of cash crops such as tobacco and rice Chesapeake
#5 These Taxes hoped to quell protest over the Stamp Act with the justification that it was an external vs. internal tax Townshend Duties
The Early Repblic
#1 The _______________________wanted a stronger federal government. Believed in Implied powers in the constitution and wanted to establish a national bank and set higher tariffs to protect American manufactures. Associated with John Adams and Alexander Hamilton Federalists
#2 This group was led by Thomas Jefferson and demanded protections for the individual and the states from a potentially tyrannical national government Democratic- Republicans
#3 Acts past under John Adams to restrict the freedom of speech of political opponents Sedition Act
#4 established the principle of judicial review, or the right of the Supreme Court to establish the constitutionality of laws Marbury V Madison (1803)
#5 The First Party System Collapsed at this convention in 1815 Hartford Convention
Jackson
#1 This Presidential Candidate was said to have take office in a Corrupt bargain in 1824 John Quincy Adams
#2 This state threatened to secede in protest of the 1832 tariffs. Jackson threatened to hang the governor. S. Carolina. Nullification Crisis
#3 This political party mobilized on the 'American system' opposing Jackson during the 1832 election Whigs
#4 This Court Case ordered Jackson to not remove Native Americans from their Georgia Lands. Jackson ignored it Worcester V. Georgia
#5 What is Jackson Famously vetoing with this statement? 'In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society--the farmers, mechanics, and laborers--who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government' The Second Bank of the United States
Manifesting Destiny (and failing at compromise)
#1 This American author went to jail for refusing to pay his taxes which would support the Mexican American war Henry David Thoreau. 'Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.'
#2 1854. This act of congress attempted to establish a principle of popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in the territories Kansas Nebraska Act
#3 1820. This was the first Act of Congress to attempt to create compromise between slave state and free states. Later overturned by the Supreme Court in 1857 Missouri Compromise
#4 This Supreme Court Case overturned Congresses ability to regulate slavery in the territories Dred Scott
#5 This Senator attempted (and failed) to hold the Democrat party together as presidential candidate by still proclaiming the principle of Popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in the territories despite a Supreme Court ruling declaring this unconstitutional Stephen Douglas
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