American History-First Semester-Study Guide.
Colonization Through Reconstruction.
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| 113033117 | Jamestown | Officially founded in the 1620's. | |
| 113033118 | The Boston Tea Party | Held by colonists to protest the British taxes. | |
| 113033119 | The Intolerable Acts | Passed by England to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. | |
| 113033120 | Tobacco | Early colonial export that saved the early southern colonies. | |
| 113033121 | The English Empire | Taxed the colonies to pay for the cost of maintaining an empire during the 1700s. | |
| 113033122 | The Quartering Act | Forced colonists to house English soldiers whenever England directed it. | |
| 113033123 | The Quakers | Settled Pennsylvania - first colony to practice freedom of religion. | |
| 113033124 | Florida | Property of Spain throughout the colonial period - it later becomes a state. | |
| 113033125 | The Sugar Act | Passed to help raise revenue for the English empire. | |
| 113033126 | The Puritans | Met to discuss the grievances with the British government. | |
| 113033127 | The First Continental Congress | People from every colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia to figure out how to make the king repeal the Intolerable Acts. | |
| 113033128 | The British Response | The English empire responds to the colonists protest of the stamp tax by repealing the act. | |
| 113033129 | The Townshend Acts | Taxed colonists on cofee, sugar, tea, etc. | |
| 113033130 | The sons of liberty | Colonial group who organized protests and confrontations with the English government concerning taxes. | |
| 113033131 | Guerilla Warfare | First used by the colonists against the British Empire in the Revolutionary war. | |
| 113033132 | The Battle of Saratoga | Considered the turning-point of the Revolutionary war-it convinced the French to join the colonials in the revolutionary war. | |
| 113033133 | Non-importation Agreement | An agreement among colonists to not buy English goods. | |
| 113033134 | The Battle of Yorktown | The last major battle of the Revolutionary war-it was a complete victory by General Washington over Cornwallis of England. | |
| 113033135 | The Second Continental Congress | They sough to finance the war and construct the Declaration of Independence. | |
| 113033136 | General Burgoune | Losing General from England at the Battle of Saratoga. | |
| 113033137 | Search and Seizure | The fourth amendment protects American citizens from illegal search and seizure. | |
| 113033138 | The First Ten Amendments | The Bill of Rights protects all citizens of the USA from possible government intervention of our rights. | |
| 113033139 | The Legislative Branch | Set up in Article 1 of the constitutionm it allows congress to write the laws of the United States. | |
| 113033140 | The National Convention | Each political party chooses its presidential candidate and its vice-presidential candidate. | |
| 113033141 | The Start of the Revolutionary War | It has been referred to as the shot heard around the world, because it gave the idea to the rest of the world to revolt against the establishment. | |
| 113033142 | The Colonists | Renamed the 'acts' passed by English Parliament, the colonists sought to protest and boycott English goods. | |
| 113033143 | The Battle of Lexington | It was the first battle fought in the Revolutionary war, near Boston, The English win decisively, but the colonist re-group and fight again. | |
| 113033144 | The Boston Massacre | British Soldiers fire upon protesting colonists- the event as used as propaganda against the English and for revolution. | |
| 113033145 | A Too Powerful Government | A system of checks and balances gaurds against any on branch of government becoming too powerful over another. | |
| 113033146 | Early political parties | Includes Federalists, Democratic-Republicans, and Anti-Federalists. | |
| 113033147 | The Electoral College | A collection of individual state representatives-nominated by the state-motivated by the popular vote-officially elect the president. | |
| 113033148 | The Seventh Amendment | Protects the rights of all citizens to a civil trial-by-jury. | |
| 113033149 | Amendments | Formal ways of changing the constitution. | |
| 113033150 | The Executive Branch | Largest branch of government-they enforce laws. | |
| 113033151 | Constitutionality of Laws | The Judicial Branch checks constitutionality of all laws. | |
| 113033152 | The First Two Political Parties | They were led by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. | |
| 114806532 | The Adams-Onis Treaty | Gave eastern Florida from Spain to the United States. | |
| 114806533 | The Embargo Act | Prevented the shipment of American products to foreign markets. | |
| 114806534 | Andrew Jackson | 7th president; the hero of the battle of New Orleans. | |
| 114806535 | The Judiciary act of 1789 | Established a federal court system in each state. | |
| 114806536 | The two houses of congress | Established in the constitution - the senate and the house of representatives. | |
| 114806537 | Tecumseh | Native-American leader, led the revolt at the Tippecanoe. | |
| 114806538 | James Monroe | Former president and vice president - Negotiated the Louisiana purchase. | |
| 114806539 | The spoils system | Policy of giving friends of winning candidates political jobs. | |
| 114806540 | Nationalism in the 1800's | A feeling of great pride in being a citizen of the U.S. during the early 1800's. | |
| 114806541 | The whiskey rebellion | An uprising over U.S. taxes on corn and corn products-first in U.S. history. | |
| 114806542 | Jacksonian Politics | A political study that focused on the candidate's personalities rather than the issue. | |
| 114806543 | The executive branch | The presidency - This branch is charged with enforcing laws in the U.S. | |
| 114806544 | Henry Clay | Called the great compromiser, he was the chief behind the Missouri Compromise. | |
| 114806545 | The battle of fallen timbers | Fought between the U.S. and a Native-American army. | |
| 114806546 | Orders in council | British law passed to prevent neutral ships from trading with France. | |
| 114806547 | Judicial Review | Practice determined in marbury vs. Madison: To determine if a law is constitutional or not. | |
| 114806548 | Francis Scott Key | Witnessed the battle of Baltimore - wrote the star spangled banner. | |
| 114806549 | James Madison | Formal president during the war of 1812. | |
| 114806550 | Article 1, Constitution | Sets up the Legislative Branch of government. | |
| 114806551 | Abolition | Name given to those who disapproved of slavery. | |
| 114806552 | First act of war | James Madison - First president to request an act of war from congress. President through out the war. | |
| 114816908 | The American colonization society | Abolition group that wanted to send former slaves back to Africa. | |
| 114816909 | Lewis and Clark | Mapped and surveyed the lands west of the Mississippi River. | |
| 114816910 | The Erie Canal | Built to transport goods through the state of New York. | |
| 114816911 | The California Gold Rush | Started in 1848; it insured that California would populate quickly and become a state. | |
| 114816912 | William Lloyd Garrison | Abolutionist that published the liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper. | |
| 114816913 | Texas | After a brief war with Mexico, this state becomes the lone star state, an independent Sovereign nation. | |
| 114816914 | James K. Polk | President during the Mexican war, he doubled the size of the U.S. | |
| 114816915 | Nat Turner | Slave from Virginia who led the largest slave uprising in history - he was captured and executed. | |
| 114816916 | Mormon Migration | Fleeing religious persecution, LDS church members settle in Utah and other parts of the west - originally led by Joseph Smith. | |
| 114816917 | James Wilkes Booth | Southern sympathizer, he assassinates president Abraham Lincoln in April of 1864 at Ford Theatre in Washington D.C. | |
| 114816918 | The Civil War | Began when southern states believed that their right to govern themselves. | |
| 114816919 | Antedem | Bloodiest single day in American history, the North wins the battle and the south retreates to central Virginia. | |
| 114816920 | Gettysburg | Considered the turning point of the Civil War- the North wins- the South will never attack another North army. | |
| 114816921 | Secession | South Carolina became the first state to secede on officially leave the union after the election of President Abraham Lincoln. |
