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| 782487173 | The Crusades | Had whetted the petites of Europeans for the luxury goods provided by Asia, further encouraging exploration. | 0 | |
| 782487174 | Albany Congress | Which colonies attempted to coordinate their policies concerning further westward settlement and concerning Native Americans. | 1 | |
| 782487175 | Chancellor of the Exchequer | Had a large hand in creating policy concerning the American colonies, decided to follow policies of Green village and try to extract more income for government from colonial trade. | 2 | |
| 782487176 | Samuel Adams | Established a committee of Correspondence designed to share info on British activities in the Americas and share other important info on British activities in the Americas and share other important info, was the first permanent machinery of protest in colonies. | 3 | |
| 782487177 | Second Continental Congress | Clear to get American colonies for war it authorized the printing of paper money to buy supplies for the war, established a committee to surprise foreign relation with other countries created a continental army. | 4 | |
| 782487178 | William & Mary of Orange | Pledged their support to a parliamentary system, believed in firm control by Britain over colonial affairs. | 5 | |
| 782487179 | George I , George II | Helped foster a desire for more self-government in the American colonies. British politics during this era weakened the British control in the Americas. | 6 | |
| 782487180 | Alexander Hamilton | Artillery took part in Washington's successful capture of Trenton, New Jersey. He was elected to the New York legislature. | 7 | |
| 782487181 | James Madison | Scholar and member of Virginia legislature behind the Virginia Plan. | 8 | |
| 782487182 | Constitutional Convention | In 1787 and 55 delegates from different states met to create the Constitution for the federal republic. | 9 | |
| 782487183 | 3/5 Compromise | The three-fifths compromise was designed by the new national government during the Convention when slave states in the South wanted to count the slave votes in their total population for determining their representation of the state in House of Representatives They deciding that three-fifths or the slave states would be counted. | 10 | |
| 782487184 | Bill of Rights | The Bill of Rights were created when the Constitution was being written and James Madison did not want to include the bill thinking it would limit the rights of the citizens. First their were 12 amendments proposed but only 10 were ratified and added to the Bill of Rights protecting the citizens. | 11 | |
| 782487185 | Laissez-faire economic policy | The Laissez-faire economic policy was favored by the Republicans which involved Thomas Jefferson who at the time was part of the Washington administration as Secretary of State. He believe that American should remain largely agricultural with industry serving only as "a handmaiden to agriculture". | 12 | |
| 782487186 | Marbury v. Madison | In 1803 the Supreme Courts power was increased during the Marbury vs. Madison decision where the court had the right of juridical review of any federal laws to decided weather or not it was constitutional. | 13 | |
| 782487187 | Louisiana Purchase | The Louisiana Purchase was massive land purchase from Emperor Napoleon of France. This purchase double the size of the United States. Jefferson fear that the purchase would decrease their economic and political power. | 14 | |
| 782487188 | War of 1812 | This was the war between the British and the Americans. A treaty was placed to end the war and it restored relations between the two countries. The war was June of 1812, Federalist opposed the war the saw Great Britain as potential trading partners | 15 | |
| 782487189 | Missouri Compromise | Slavery was growing more urgent and when settlers were moving west they wanted to know it those territories would be free or slave states.Debates in Congress started when Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state. The Compromise was created by Henry Clay where Maine joined the Union as a free slave and then any states north of Louisiana 36 degrees and 30 minutes could join as free states. | 16 | |
| 782487190 | Monroe Doctrine | This was a proclamation that Western hemisphere were not considered subjects of future colonization by the European power. "America was beginning to consider itself a major world power", this was stated by President Monroe in 1823. | 17 | |
| 782487191 | Indian Removal Act | This Act was referred to as the Removal Act of 1830 when Native Americans were moved west of the Mississippi River. This removal was also known as the "Trail of Tears". | 18 | |
| 782487192 | Trail of Tears | 20,000 members of the Cherokee tribe were forced to march their new designated homes in Oklahoma. This was in 1838 when federal troops forced the tribe west, many died from hunger, disease or exhaustion during this painful journey. | 19 | |
| 782487193 | Whig party | This was a political party in 1834 during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Whigs opposed Jackson's use of the spoils system and the extensive power held by him. Whig's favored an activist federal government. | 20 | |
| 782487194 | Manifest Destiny | This was a term first use in the 1840s. It was the concept of America's expansion westward stated by journalist John O'Sullivan "the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for free development of our yearly multiplying millions" | 21 | |
| 782487195 | US-Mexico War | The war started because both American and Mexico wanted possession of Texas. The war ended by American getting the northern part of Texas territory and the territories of New Mexico and California. | 22 | |
| 782487196 | Compromise of 1850 | This was a agreement that temporarily settled tensions between the Northern and Southern political leaders and prevented secession crisis. The Fugitive Slave Act was strengthen to help the North and California entered the Union as a free state. | 23 | |
| 782487197 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | This act of 1854 was created by Stephen Douglas which allowed the settlers of Kansas and Nebraska to decided if they were free or slave states. | 24 | |
| 782487198 | Dred Scott decision | Supreme Court case stating that man who was born a slave but lived in both non-slave and a non-slave territory and they were then deciding if he had legal freedom. In 1857 the Court ruled that slaves were not people but property and could not be citizens of the United States. | 25 | |
| 782487199 | Navigation Acts | 1660 measures passed by Charles II that were designed to increase the dependent of the colonies on England for trade. Charles mandated that certain goods like tobacco should be sold only to England. Colonies had to send merchandise to England on England ships. | 26 | |
| 782487200 | Indentured Servants | Legal arrangements to work for somebody, usually 3-10 years for a free passage to the American colonies. Many early Virginia colony settlers. | 27 | |
| 782487201 | Middle Passage | African slaves brought to Americas, South Carolina in 1739. Many brought diseases and 20% didn't make the trip. | 28 | |
| 782487202 | Stono Rebellion | Slave uprising in Charleston, South Carolina in 1739. 100 slaves killed plantation owners. slaves were treated more harshly after. | 29 | |
| 782487203 | Salem Witch Trials | In 1692 many would be put on trail for strange behavior or suspicion of witchcraft . 120 men, women, and children were arrested in Salem. Many of the accusers were farmers and the ones accused were locals interested in the commercial part of the town. | 30 | |
| 782487204 | Great Awakening: 1720-40 | Minister of the movement claimed that local ministers were not devoted enough to God and practiced "cold" preaching. Entire congregation were stirred ti greater religious devotion. The movement introduced a sense of social equality to the colonies. | 31 | |
| 782487205 | Salutary Neglect | AS long as the American colonies remained politically loyal and continued their trade with Great Britain, the British government would relax re-enforcement of various measures restricting colonial activity enacted in the 1600's. | 32 | |
| 782487206 | French & Indian War | The British and the French fought for the right to expand their empire in the Americas. Colonists and Native Americans on both sides of the war. | 33 | |
| 782487207 | Stamp Act | Passed in 1765 to help pay for the British army in North America, under which all legal documents in te colonies had to be issued on officially stamped paper. | 34 | |
| 782487208 | Boston Tea Party | In response to the Tea Act and additional British taxes on tea, Boston radicals disguised as Native Americans threw nearly 350 chests of tea into the Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. | 35 | |
| 782487209 | Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770 a confrontation occurred, with laborers throwing snowballs filled with rocks at soldiers. Soldiers shot back, killed 5 men and wounded 8. | 36 | |
| 782487210 | Continental Congress | 56 delegates from every colony met up except Georgia, in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774. Also said to train militia and to get ready for war. | 37 | |
| 782487211 | Common Sense | Very popular in 1776 publication in the colonies written by Englishman, Thomas Pain, who had come to Americas in 1774, repudiated the entire concept of government by monarchy. | 38 | |
| 782487212 | Declaration of Independence | In 1776, in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson wrote a document that declared sovereignty to the people of America and declared independence from Greta Britain. | 39 | |
| 782487213 | Articles of Confederation | Ratified in 1781, this document established the first official government of the U.S: allowed possessing much power to remain in the states. Federal government limited powers. | 40 | |
| 782487214 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort located in Charleston harbor. | 41 | |
| 782487215 | Confederate States of America | It was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by southern slave states. The seceded from the union because up north slavery wasn't legal and they did not want to free there slaves. | 42 | |
| 782487216 | Emancipation Proclamation | January, 1 1863, proclamation that freed slaves in Southern territories was controlled by the Union army; this executive proclamation by president Lincoln also committed the Union to the abolition of slavery. | 43 | |
| 782487217 | Appomatox | Virginia courthouse where General Robert E. Lee surrender Confederate forces of April 9, 1865 | 44 | |
| 782487218 | 13th Amendment | passed after the civil war and ended slavery | 45 | |
| 782487219 | 14th Amendment | gave citizenship regardless of race if you were born in the us | 46 | |
| 782487220 | 15th Amendment | gave voting rights for everyone regardless of race. | 47 | |
| 782487221 | Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the union. | 48 | |
| 782487222 | Radical Republicans | congressional group that wished to punish the South for it's secession from the Union; pushed for measures that gave economic and political rights to newly freed blacks in the South. | 49 | |
| 782487223 | Black Codes | Laws adopted by the southern states in the Reconstruction era that greatly limited the freedom of Southern blacks; in several states blacks could not move, own land, or do anything but farm. | 50 | |
| 782487224 | Andrew Johnson | ohnson was vice president under Lincoln, six weeks after Johnson was inaugurated Lincoln was assassinated. He took a moderate approach to restoring the South to the Union, and clashed with Radical Republicans. In 1868, he was impeached by Congress, but he was not removed from office. | 51 | |
| 782487225 | Freedmen's Bureau | The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created by Congress in March 1865 to assist for one year in the transition from slavery to freedom in the South. | 52 | |
| 782487226 | Ku Klux Klan | founded in Tennessee in 1866; it's oftentimes violent actions during the Reconstruction era represented the resentments felt by many white southerners toward the changing political, social and economic conditions of the Reconstruction era. | 53 | |
| 782487227 | Carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era; traditional elements of Southern society were deeply resentful of profits made by carpetbaggers during this period. | 54 | |
| 782487228 | Compromise of 1877 | political compromise ending the disputed presidential election of 1876; by terms of this compromise Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the electoral votes of Florida, Louisiana & South Carolina, thus giving him the presidency. | 55 | |
| 782487229 | Industrial Revolution | The Industrial Revolution (1820-1870) was of great importance to the economic development of the United States. It refers to a change from hand and home production to machine and factory. | 56 | |
| 782487230 | Labor unions | an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union. | 57 | |
| 782487231 | Gilded Age | A depiction late-nineteenth-century America that emphasizes a surface of great prosperity hiding problems of social inequality and cultural shallowness.' | 58 |
