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Dec 16, 1200
migration
Migration is the movement from one place to another. It's usually long distance and from one country to another. Europeans moved to the America's. -
Dec 16, 1200
adobe
Type of clay or soil to make bricks. The homes of the Pueblo Indians are examples of houses built with adobe bricks. They were homes for Natuve Americans. -
Jun 16, 1215
Magna Carta
Acharter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215. -
Dec 16, 1300
Columbian exchange
It refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life -
Oct 16, 1400
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. "Found" America's and forced ownership. -
Dec 16, 1400
Conquistadors
A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. Francisco Pizarro, found incas land and conquered it. -
Dec 2, 1485
Hernan Cortez
Conquered Aztecs. 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland -
Jun 16, 1500
Montezuma
Aztec emperor. Gave Cortes gold. Aztecs stoned him to death. -
Aug 16, 1500
Mestizo
A term traditionally used in Spain and Spanish America to mean a person of combined European and Amerindian descent. Mixed spanish and native american population. -
Aug 16, 1500
Middle passage
The stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. -
Nov 16, 1500
Prince Henry the navigator
known as Henry the Navigator was an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.Spread christianity and outflanked muslims. -
Mar 16, 1576
Presidio
A fortified base established by the Spanish in areas under their control or influence. The fortresses were built to protect against pirates, hostile Native Americans, and colonists from enemy nations -
John Smith
Adventurer who helped the success of Englands North American settlement.Also was an english soldier, explorer, and author. -
Cabinet
Assembled secretaries that advised the king. Washing seeked the advice of selected people, and James Madison was involved. -
Puritan
The Puritans were a group who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed. -
Joint Stock Co.
A joint-stock company is a business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders. Royal control made VA co. of London, Jamestown. -
House of Burgesses
The first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. -
Mayflower
The mayflower was the ship that transported the first english separatists, known today as the pilgrims, from plymouth to the new world. -
Bacons Rebellion
An armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
English Bill of Rights
A British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession in William and Mary. -
renaissance
The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeeth centuries. It was the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome. -
Enlightenment
Emphasizes reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. -
William Penn
William Penn was an english real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early quaker and founder of the province of Pennsylvania, the english North American colony and the future commonwealth of Pennsylvania -
Habeas corpus
A legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment. -
Salutary neglect
British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. -
iroquois league
Iroquois is also known as the Haudenosaunee. They are a historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy. Allies with William Pitt. -
Alexander Hamilton
A founding father of the United States, chief staff aide to General George Washington, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution. -
Loose Construction
a broad interpretation of a statute or document by a court. Without these documents we have no freedom. John Jay, Alex Hamilton, and James Madison wrote the federalists. -
Strict Construction
In the United States, strict constructionism refers to a particular legal philosophy of judicial interpretation that limits or restricts judicial interpretation. -
Whiskey Rebellion
Also known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. It was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
Cotton gin
A cotton engine that helped Southern farmers sell short stable cotton, invented by Eli Whitney so farmers in the South can profit from short staple cotton. -
Alien and Sedition Act
Four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress, and signed into law by Federalist President John Adams in 1798. -
Great Awakening
Historians and theologians identify three or four waves of increased religious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th century and the late 19th century. It can refer to several periods of religious revival in American religious history. -
John Jay
John Jay was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States -
Mercantilism
The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances. A government should encourage by protectionism. -
Cash Crops
An agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. Applied exclusively to the agricultural production of plants; animal agriculture is not a part of the terminology -
Identured servants
a labor system where people paid for their passage to the new world by working for an employer for a certain number of years to pay off debts. -
Tariff
A tariff is a tax on imports or exports. its equivalent may also be used to describe any list of prices -
Judicial Review
The doctrine under which legislative and executive actions are subject to review by the judiciary. A court with judicial review power may invalidate laws and decisions that are incompatible with a higher authority. -
interchangeable parts
They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type by Eli Whitney. -
Louisiana Purchase
A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Marbury v. Madison
A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. -
Impressment
"The press" or the "press gang", refering to the act of taking men into a navy by force and with or without notice. Navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means. -
War Hawks
A person who clamors for war especially, a jingoistic American favoring war with Britain. Stood up against war and against our greatest enemies. -
Hartford Convention
A series of meetings in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government. -
Treaty of Ghent
signed in the city of Ghent, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United States Kingdom. -
Missouri Compromise
An effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Henry Clay
An American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He served three non-consecutive terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829. -
Lone Star Republic
Chamber of Commerce, Huntsville, TX. Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas. At the time Spain granted independence to Mexico in 1821, the land now comprising the state of Texas was very sparsely populated. -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that originally ran about 363 miles from Albany, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes -
American System
The policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by adoption of a high protective tariff and of developing internal improvements by the federal government, advocated by Henry Clay. -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian democracy is the political movement during the Second Party System toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. -
Nat Turner
Nat Turner was an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths. -
Nullification crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. -
Monroe Doctrine
A U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. -
Utopian Community
It's a community or society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities. The word was coined by Sir Thomas More in Greek for his 1516 book Utopia describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina. -
Wilmot Proviso
Designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48). Soon after the war began. -
California Gold Rush
A period in American history which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. -
Treaty of Guadalupe
Officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Popular Sovereighty
The sovereignty of the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives -
Fort Sumter
Started civil war. First military action. North was outraged by the attack. SOuth was known as hero's. -
Anaconda Plan
Designed by Winfield Scott. Designed to choke out southern supply lines. Blocked off southern. Originally rejected by union officials. Helped norht win -
Battle of Shiloh
Battle ended where it started. Johnston attacked at the camps, he died during battle due to a bleed out in his leg. Replaced by GPGTB. Frant joined forces with Buell's army, Retook all the land they lost previously. Conf, 40.335. Union, 23,741. Turning point to war. Grants's reinforcement caused a win. -
Bull Run
First battle - 30,000 union soldiers led by gen. Irvin McDowell. Conf. were led by Stonrewall Jackson. Conf. victory, raised spirit of south. Lincoln replaced McDowell with McClellan. Stonewall was an x factor fir the south.
Second - 62,000 union soldiers led by John Pope, Irvin, & John Porter, Conf. 50,000 led by Lee, Stonewall, and James Lonstreet. Huge spirit raiser for south. Lee was an x factor. -
Battle of Antietam
Blodddiest battle of the North in the civil war. Lee had the upper hand. McClellan was a good organizer but a poor fighting leader. Many would say the North won and had the uper hand. -
Battle of FredricksBurg
Halfways between Washington and Richmond. Confederates had Lee as commander. Union suffered 12,653. Arfmy and Lincoln were under attack by press and politicians. General Burnside was relieved of command a month later. Confederate suffered 5,377. Huge moral boost to the south. Gave them hope and made Lee's reputation better, -
Battle of Gettysburg
One of the only battles fought in the North. Led by Robert E. Lee abd George Mead. Biggest death toil of any other battle. Confederate had 70,100 men. Pickerr;s charge was a battle strategy7 that was infrantry assault ordered by Lee. Second bloodiest battle from Antietam. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Robert E. Lee split his army in 2. Union lost 17,304. Confederates lost, 13,460. At the time, bloodiest battle in history. Hooker wanted to cut off Lee's supply lines and prevent reinforcement. Found Haxel Grove, a plateau with a direct view of union positions. Lee returned to Chancellorsville to finish Hooker. Union wanted to attack Lee from behind. Confederate wanred to take the high ground at Hazel Grove. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Vicksburg, Mississippi. Union had 77,000 soldiers. Confederate hade 33,000. African American soldiers served in union and confederate during war. Union won at Champion Hill and Big Black Bridge. Controlling Mississippi river was difficult for North and South. Union lost 4,800. Confederate lost 29,600. -
Petersburg
Conf. had 42,000 men. Union had 62,000. Conf. dug many miles of trenches around Petersburg. Union used waves of different regiments to attack conf. Lt. Ulysses S. Grant sent troops to cut food supply lead be Lee. Starving soldiers and attcaking them to battle until confs forved to surrender. Many women were widows, sparking womens revolution. Half the population were african americans. Jobs include railroads, barbers and etc. Final battle that established the ending war. -
Battle of Atlanta
William sherman, union. John Hood, conf, Hood wnated to drive the union away forcing civilians to leave their homes. Union won this battle. ATlanta was greatly damaged. McClellan calling truce with conf, causing Abe to get re-elected. -
Sherman' March to the Sea
From Atlanta to Savannah Georgia. Shermans soldiers didnt destroy any towns, Stole food and livstock. Burned houses and barns if people got in their way, Savannahs defending soldiers fled, 10,000. -
Appomattox Court House
Lee wa the general for confederates. Grant was for the union. Union purued the conf. to cut them off at Appomattox. Lee attacked thr union forces. This ended the war in VIrginia. Triggered the south for signaling the civil war, Union ended with 260. Conf. ended with 27,000. -
Elizabeth Stanton
An American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. -
Northwest passage
The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America.
