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Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
Christopher Columbus
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The transfer of goods, culture, and disease between the Old and New Worlds
The Columbian Exchange
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America was supposedly named after him
Amerigo Vespucci
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Dominican priest who preached against Spanish treatment of natives
Bartolome de Las Casas
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How Spanish brutality came to be known
The Black Legend
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This empire set up a military settlement at St. Augustine
The Spanish
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This empire prided themselves for their devotion to liberty
The Dutch
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A main goal of this empire was conversion of natives to Catholicism
The Spanish
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Granted a charter for a settlement off the North Carolina Coast
The British
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This empire was looking for commercial gain by fur trading, established alliances with Native Americans
The French
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Which Colony was first established settlement at Jamestown
Virginia Colony
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Which Colony was first settled by Pilgrims in 1620
Massachusetts
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Which colony was established by Roger Williams
Rhode Island
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Which colony was established as proprietary colony by Cecilius Calvert
Maryland
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Which Colony was established by Quakers
Pennsylvania
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The first elected assembly in colonial America
The House of Burgesses (Virginia)
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The law that proclaimed no settlement west of Appalachians
Proclamation of 1763
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Pamphlet by Thomas PAine that argued for American independence
Common Sense
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Created by King James II in order to centralize colonial governance
Dominion of New England
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Term meaning that members of the British parliament represented the entire empire
Virtual Representation
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Who established Pennsylvania
William Penn
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Who was the commander of Continentall Army during American Revolution
George Washington
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Who was the bi-racial sailor who died in the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
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Who made homespun clothing new fashion statement
Daughters of Liberty
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Who asked her husband to Remember the Ladies"?
Abigail Adams
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The term for forcing American sailors into the British Navy
Impressment
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Unsuccessful slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia
Gabriel's Rebellion
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Led by Virginia slave preacher, this was the last large-scale rebellion in southern history
Nat Turner's Rebellion
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This tribe resisted being forced off their land in Florida, led by Osceola
Seminoles
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Theory: each state retained the right to prevent Congress form enforcing laws within its borders if those powers were not expressly spelled out in the Constitution.
Nullification
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Treaty that ends war with Britian-no territory exchanges hands, no provisions regarding shipping or impressment
Treaty of Ghent
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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, and as a result of this 1854 act, this area was open to slavery by popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Treaty that ends 7 Years' War in 1763: all of the North American east of Mississippi belongs to British
Treaty of Paris
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Treaty that ends Mexican War, sets Rio Grande as U.S./ Mexico boundary
Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
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Treaty that cancelled the American-French alliance and recognized British economic and naval superiority
Jay's Treaty
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During and after the 7 Years' War: Let's be as English as possible
Anglicization
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Reinforced the idea that a woman's place is in the home
the Cult of Domesticity
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Immigrants have dangerous ideas-responsible for most societal problems
Nativism
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Advocated a return to simplicity, represented by Thoreau, Emerson
Transcendentalists
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Mothers played a major role in laying the "foundations of national morality"
Republican Motherhood
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The Act that provoked the first drama of the revolutionary era
The Stamp Act
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The Act that "gave" Native Americans land west of Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands in the Southeastern U.S.
Indian Removal Act of 1830
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The Act "gave" Native AMericans land west of Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands in the Southeastern U.S.
Indian Removal Act of 1830
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The Act that was 1819 solution to slave/free state problem--all states in Louisiana Purchase would be free above 36 30
Missouri Compromise
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The Act failed proposal tht suggested slavery be prohibited in all land acquired form Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
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Interpreter for the Corps of Discovery
Sacajawea
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Who argued in an 1851 speech, "Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
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Who called for greater access to education, published Vinication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Who was key organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ Lucretia Mott
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Document that read: "All men and women are created equal"
The Declaration of Sentiments
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