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| 13341669067 | House of Burgesses | first legislative body in the new world | 0 | |
| 13505734760 | Act of Toleration | gave Catholics religious freedom in Maryland | 1 | |
| 13505764245 | Bacon's Rebellion | Virgina farmer who rebelled over taxes & lack of protection from Native Americans | 2 | |
| 13505785455 | Governor Berkeley | governor of virgina during bacons rebellion | 3 | |
| 13505790970 | Indentured Servants | people who payed for their trip to the new world with labor ( average 7 years ) | 4 | |
| 13505802770 | Headright System | Virginia law that gives 200 acres of land to every household with a minimum of 5 people - start of the first great migration | 5 | |
| 13505818884 | Anne Hutchinson | exiled from Massachusetts to New Hampshire- early symbol of religious freedom | 6 | |
| 13505834548 | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | first written constitution in the new world | 7 | |
| 13505890347 | Halfway Covenant | Massachusetts law that allowed partial membership in the church for the second generation | 8 | |
| 13505915121 | New England Confederation | mutual defense group formed to protect new england from native americans | 9 | |
| 13505937446 | Pequot War | war in connecticut that wiped out a significant amount of the pequot tribe | 10 | |
| 13522562417 | Metacom (King Philip) | indian chief who united the tribes against the new england confederation | 11 | |
| 13522582607 | Mercantilism | economic system that seeks a favorable balance of trade and to acquire colonies | 12 | |
| 13522598941 | specie | gold or sliver- "hard" money | 13 | |
| 13522601190 | soft money | trade or paper money | 14 | |
| 13522619406 | Balance O' Trade | Export - Import = specie | 15 | |
| 13522628163 | Tariff | tax on imports (south hates) | 16 | |
| 13522639339 | Harvard | first university in the new world to train ministers | 17 | |
| 13522649583 | John Peter Zenger | New Yorker famously accused of libel by the royal governor acquitted when he proved he wrote the truth - establishes freedom of the press in the new world | 18 | |
| 13522667521 | Triangular Trade | england to north america- Tea, Spices, Manufactured goods africa to north america- slaves & gold england to africia- iron north america to europe- fish and tobacco |  | 19 |
| 13522692616 | middle passage | refers to the trips slaves made from africa to cuba | 20 | |
| 13522735585 | Salutary neglect | when england and the colonies leave each other alone | 21 | |
| 13522750373 | Navigation Acts | (1680s) first attempt by the crown to regulate the colonies | 22 | |
| 13522775586 | Salem Witch Trials | 1690 when Massachusetts hangs 18 people and 2 dogs were hanged for witch craft | 23 | |
| 13538720375 | Zachary Taylor (12th president) | Whig 1849-1850 A. Signed Clayton-Bulwer Treaty w/ England promising to work together to build The Panama Canal B. Didn't support Compromise of 1850 C. Agreed to Gadsden Purchase (expansion of american soil for the purpose of railroads) | 24 | |
| 13538771164 | Millard Fillmore (13th president) | Whig 1850-1852 A. Supported Compromise of 1850- had to be passed as several separate bills B. Last Whig pres. Appointed Brigham young gov. of Utah C. "Opened" Japan for trade by sending Matthew Perry D. Tried to retake pres in 1856 as a "Know- Nothing" | 25 | |
| 13538818080 | Franklin Pierce (14th president) | Democrat 1852-1856 A. Supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act - didn't act during "Bleeding Kansas". B. Sent Anthony Burns back into slavery and enforced the fugitive slave act C. President during the Sumner- Brooks Incident | 26 | |
| 13538883772 | James Buchanan (15th President) | Democrat 1856-1860 A. Accepted Le Compton Const. in Kansas which protected slavery in state. Congress rejected it - Both regions unhappy. B. Privately asked Supreme Court to make a very broad ruling in Dread Scott Case. C. President during Panic o' 1857- Northern economy suffered while south was stable | 27 | |
| 13553232897 | Abe Lincoln (16th president) | Republican 1860- 1865 A. President during the Civil War B. Lincoln fully implements a Whig internal infrastructure plan - Trans continental railroad - Canals - Telegraph - Give out land ( Home Stead Act) - Established Western Universities C. Issued Emancipation Proclamation -> frees slaves in rebellion states. Kept Britain out of war. Issued after the battle of Antietam D. Issued "paper currency" to pay for war "Greenbacks" E. Famously Shot by John Wilkes Booth | 28 | |
| 13776137766 | Free soil | A party started to stop the spread of slavery Abe Lincoln was the most famous leader | 29 | |
| 13776144309 | Compromise of 1850 | (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas | 30 | |
| 13776157957 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 31 | ||
| 13776185085 | Missouri Compromise | "Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states. | 32 | |
| 13776187939 | Slave Compromises | - 3/5 compromise - slavery protected slave trade "sunsets' (overseas) - Missouri compromise - Compromise of 1850 - Kansas Nebraska State | 33 | |
| 13776209020 | Underground Railroad | a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada | 34 | |
| 13776224725 | George Fitzhugh | 35 |
