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Am.History
Unit 1 Review Part 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| trade between Americas, Europe & Africa | Trianglular trade |
| officially ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris |
| Forbid slavery in Northwest Territory | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
| invented the Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney |
| turning point in the American Revolution | Saratoga |
| Placed duties on certain imported goods | Townshend Acts |
| treaty in which Spain gave up Florida | Adams-Onis Treaty |
| created first textile mill in the US | Samuel Slater |
| First battles of the American Revolution | Lexington & Concord |
| First permanent English Settlement | Jamestown |
| Work stoppage | strike |
| all parts made to an exact standard | interchangeable parts |
| making product by machinery | manufacturing |
| First President of Texas | Sam Houston |
| closed the region West of Appalachain Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
| statement of reasons for separation from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| where Gen. Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. Washington | Yorktown |
| pamphlet encouraged colonists to break from Britain | Common Sense |
| change way Americans made, bought & sold goods | Mayflower Compact |
| used steam to power the Clearmont | Robert Fulton |
| Declared himself dictator of Mexico & stripped Texas of it's rights to self-government | Santa Anna |
| made travel between the Atlantic & Great Lakes easier | Erie Canal |
| agreement in which settlers in Plymouth colony agreed to obey their governments laws | Mayflower Compact |
| War in which the French & Indians fought against the British & American colonists | French & Indian War |
| Transatlantic trade between America,Europe,Africa & Asia that began around 1492 | Columbian Exchange |
| Political jobs, for political friends, for political loyalty | spoil system |
| March 1765, Parliament placed a tax on newspapers, legal documents & other printed material | Stamp Act |
| Economic theory that a country should try to get & keep as much bullion, gold, or silver as possible, by exporting more than importing | mercantilism |
| Radical abolitionist - published the Liberator | William Lloyd Garrison |
| movement to end slavery | abolition |
| leader in prison reform | Dorothea Dix |
| "Black Moses" | Harriet Tubman |
| Most influential African American abolitionist | Fredrick Douglass |
| campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption | temperance movement |
| Lecturer/writer who became one of America's greatest thinkers | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| network of escape routes for slaves fleeing North to freedom | Underground Railroad |
| New England transcendentalist Walden or Life in the Woods | Henry David Thoreau |
| founder of a Utopian community, New Harmony, Indiana | Robert Owens |
| emphasized spiritual discovery & insight rather than reason | transcendentalist |
| organizer of Seneca Falls Convention, supporter of women's suffrage | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| National road financed by federal government | Cumberland Road |
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