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Columbian Exchange (Grand Exchange) |
refers to the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries |
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Hernando Cortes |
Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire. Was in a generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of spanish colonization in the Americas |
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conquistators |
spanish conquerors |
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Enocomienda system |
a system by which the spanish crown defined the status of the indian population in its colonies.It consisted of a grant by the crown of a specified number of indians living in a certain area. |
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Mestizo |
half European, half Native American aC |
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Cash Crop |
a crop produced for money rather than for use by its owner. G |
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Great Awakening |
The series of religous revivals among Protestants in the America colonies, especiall in New England from about 1725 to 1770. |
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mercantilism |
belief in the benifits of profitable trading. The belief that trade generates wealth. agin |
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Navigation Acts |
a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Great Britain and its colonies. |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalacian Mountains. This was to make the Indians happy. |
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Alien and Sedition Acts |
A series of laws passed during the presidency of John Adams that sought to restrict the public activities of political radicals why sympathized with the French Revolution and criticized Adams Federalist policies. |
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Common Sense Author |
Thomas Payne |
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Intollerable Act results |
Because parliments was punishing the colonists for dumping tea into the harbor, the first Continental Congress was called for a Boycott of all British goods. Coloinies unified and pushed them toward war. |
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Shay's Rebellion |
an armed uprising that took place in Massacusetts (mostly in and around Springfield). It is felt to have altered the course of United States History. |
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Whiskey Rebellion |
A tax protest in the US begining in 1791during the presidency of George Washington.First tax imposed in new government. It was intended to help reduce the national debt. There was much violent resistence, but the government was able to show that it would able to supress violent revolts. |
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Marbury v Madison |
The decision helped define the boundry between the constitutionally seperate executive and judicial branches of government. |
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Monroe Doctrine |
Origionated by James Monroe , says that any intervention by external powers in the polotics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US. |
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"Trail of Tears" |
The route along which the United States government forces several tribes of native americans to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River. T |
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Treaty of Guadalup Hidalgo - land |
added 525,000 square miles of land to the US territory including present day Arizona, California, Colordo, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. |
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Compromise of 1850 |
consists of 5 laws that delt with slavery. Created to try to divert a crises between the north and the south in regards to new states coming in to the union as "free" or slave states. |
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Dred Scott decision |
Dred Scott claimed that he was free because he moved to a free state with a new owner who was going to free him. The Supremem Court ruled that he was still a slave because he was black. |
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Gettysburg - Why a turning point? |
because it was a major Union victory in the war. |
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popular sovereignty |
the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people through their elected representitives |
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Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
divided the south into 5 military districts in which the army commander was supreme |
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southern advantages in Civil War |
1. It was fighing a defensive war 2. It was defending its home against invaders (soldiers were devoted to preserving the southern way of life) 3. best military minds came from the south |
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Dawes Act |
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and land owner by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming and 320 acres for grazing |
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exodusters |
name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century. |
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Homesteader |
someone who owns and lives off of their own land. |
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Morril Act |
provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member in their Congressional delegation to provide colleges for the benifit of agriculture. |
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soddy |
Dirt or sod house |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
inventor of the telephone |
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Henry Bessemer |
known for the processes of manufacturing steel |
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Edwin L. Drake |
Credited for being the first to drill for oil in the United States |
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Thomas Alva Edison |
Invented the phonograph, movie camera and practical electrical light bulb |
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Christopher Sholes |
Invented the typewriterredC |
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Credit Mobilier |
a joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works |
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Interstate Commerce Act |
a law designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopoly practices |
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Social Darwinism |
the theory that individuals, groups and peoples are subject to the same Darwin laws of natural selection as plants and animals. |
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Sherman Anti-trust Act |
First act that outlawed monopolistic business practices |
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Triangle Shirtwaist fire - result |
Help to create labor laws and fire safety regulatoins in buildings |
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Vertical integration |
an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company. |
