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U.S. History S.1
terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| House of Burgesses | Legislature made up of representatives for a colony. |
| William Penn | - Received colony from the king as payment for debt. |
| Salem Witch Trials | Trials to determine to determine if the accused were “dealing with the devil”. |
| Headright System | Promise of 50 acres of land to everyone who comes to the colony. |
| Proprietary Colony | Colony granted by a king to an individual who has full governance. |
| Indentured Servitude | People who had to work for a master for a period of time. |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement made by the Pilgrims. |
| Nathaniel Bacon | Burned down Jamestown |
| Charter Colony | Colony which has received certificate from the king. |
| Joint stock Company | A group of investors who share the profits and losses. |
| Encomienda System | Required Native Americans to farm for Spaniards. |
| Roanoke Island | Founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, this colony vanished. |
| Royal Colony | Colony with a governor appointed by a king. |
| Jacques Cartier | Sailed up the St. Lawrence River. |
| Hernan Cortez | Conquered the Aztecs. |
| Great Awakening | Revival of religious feelings. |
| George Whitefield | Most popular preacher during the Great Awakening. |
| Jonathan Edwards | Preacher who wrote, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” |
| Immigration | A person entering a new country. |
| Stono Rebellion | Several dozen slaves killed 20 whites and burned down an armory. |
| Self sufficient | Ability to make everything needed to maintain oneself. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac, invented bi |
| John Peter Zenger | Publisher for a newspaper, his lawsuit established freedom of the press. |
| Salutary Neglect | Not interfering in a colony as long as it serves economic interests of the mother country. |
| Dominion of New England | Abolished colonial legislatures and replaced them with a governor. |
| Middle Passage | One leg of the Triangular Trade. |
| Navigation Act | Forced colonies to sell goods only to England, or pay a duty. |
| Mercantilism | Try to get and keep as mush bullion as possible. |
| Second Seminole War | 1835 war in which the seminoles tried to retain their landing Florida. |
| Trail of tears | The forced movement of Cherokees in 1838 to land west of Mississippi river. |
| Spoils System | System or practice of giving appointed offices as rewards from the successful party in an election; name for the patronage system under President Jackson. |
| Monroe Doctrine | Declaration by President Monroe in 1823 that the U.S would oppose efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the Western Hemisphere. |
| Gibbons vs. Ogden | 1824 case in which the supreme court ruled that states could not regulate commerce on interstate waterways. |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | 1819 case in which the supreme court ruled that congress has the authority to take actions necessary to fulfill its constitutional duties. |
| Dartmouth College v. Woodward | 1819 case in which the supreme court ruled that states could not interfere with private contracts. |
| Nat Turner | African American preacher who organized a violent up rising known as Turners Rebellion. |
| Labor Unions | Organization of workers formed to protect the interest of its members. |
| Tenements | A low-cost apartment building with health issues and is packed. |
| Investment Capital | Money that a business spends in hopes of future gains. |
| Free enterprise system | economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods. |
| Market Revolution | Shift from a home based, often agricultural, economy to one based on money and the buying and selling of goods. |
| Patent | a license that gives an inventor the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention for a set period of time. |
| Interchangeable parts | a system of manufacturing in which all parts are made in an exact standard for easy mass |
| Sojourner Truth | was first named Isabella but after being freed from slavery took the name Sojourner because she believed it was her calling to preach the truth about God. |
| Suffrage | the right to vote. |
| Irish potato famine | famine in Ireland in the 1840s that led to a surge in immigration to the US. |
| Naturalized | to apply for and be granted American citizenship. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. |
| Catharine Beecher | Took a stand to make a difference advising women on how to reform society from within their roles at home. |
| Harriet Tubman | One of the bravest slaves, she escaped from her plantation and came back the next year and rescued her family. |
| Fredrick Douglass | brilliant abolitionist writer and speaker. |
| Emancipation | freeing of enslaved people. |
| Horace Mann | big supporter of education, became Massachusetts first secretary of the board of education. |
| Henry David Thoreau | a friend and admirer of Emerson, did not have a good life and protested about paying taxes and was jailed. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | leader of the transcendental movement and one of America’s greatest thinkers. |
| Segregate | forced separation, often by race. |
| Temperance movement | an organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption. |
| Transcendentalism | philosophical movement of the mid 1800s the emphasized spiritual discovery and insight rather than reason. |
| Secessionists | person that wanted the south to secede. |
| John Brown | Brown was against slavery, he took New Englanders to a proslavery settlement and killed five men in front of their families giving the territory the title of “Bleeding Kansas”. |
| Lincoln Douglas Debates | a series of seven debates between the two on the issue of slavery in the territories . |
| Dred Scott vs. Sandford | 1857 supreme court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens, that living in a free stat or territory, even for many years did not free slaves and the Missouri compromise unconstitutional. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | 1854 law that called for the creation of those two new territories, and stated that the citizens in each territory should decide whether would be allowed there. |
| Popular sovereignty | policy of the letting the people in a territory decide whether slavery would be allowed there. |
| Nativism | a policy of favoring native born Americans over immigrants. |
| Wilmont Proviso | amendment to an 1846 bill stating that slavery would not be permitted in any territory acquired from mexico . |
| Gadsden Purchase | 1853 purchase by the US of southwestern lands from mexico. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty signed in 1848 by the US and Mexico ending the Mexican war. |
| Bear Flag Revolt | |
| Mexican War | Conflict between the US and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 ending the US victory. |
| Manifest Density | Argument that it was the undeniable fate of the US to expand across North America. |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | Patented the Telegraph. |
| Prejudice | An unreasonable, usually unfavorable opinion of another group |
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