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| 5759277873 | Colombian exchange | the exchange between the new world and the old world consisting of the old world bringing wheat, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, sugar, rice, coffee, smallpox, malaria and yellow fever. while the new world sent gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and syphills |  | 0 |
| 8358434888 | mercantilism | European economic system that encouraged countries to export goods and discouraged imports. Using the resources from colonies was a key factor. |  | 1 |
| 8358678376 | Smallpox | Disease from Europe that wiped out the majority of Native Americans and caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. Africans were less susceptible and so were imported to replace Native labor. |  | 2 |
| 5759277824 | Federalist Party | First American political party led by Alexander Hamilton. They were in support of the Constitution, as it gave the government more power. They believed in national banks, tariffs, an elite ruling class, and good relations with Britain. They had major influences and impacts on out national government and its debt. |  | 3 |
| 8358811591 | Puritans | Religious separatists that wanted to be separate from the Church of England. They fled persecution in England and found refuge in New England colonies. |  | 4 |
| 8358356148 | Jamestown | First permanent British colony. Most colonists died. Initially they were looking for gold, then shifted to planting Tobacco as a cash crop. |  | 5 |
| 8358386233 | Fur Trade | This was a main part of the economy for French colonists. Required that they work closely with Native Americans. | 6 | |
| 8358835430 | Bacon's Rebellion | 1676. Angry former indentured servants, mostly from West VA resented East planters. They were very poor, had little land, and were squatting in the west of the colony. They were angered by the lack of protection from Indian attacks. |  | 7 |
| 8358909910 | First Great Awakening | 1730s-40s. Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British American colonies. Emphasized personal emotional relationship with god, rather than following of traditional church doctrine. |  | 8 |
| 8358943041 | Declaration of Independence | Document written by Thomas Jefferson. Says "all men are created equal" |  | 9 |
| 8358958385 | Articles of Confederation | Constitution government. More like a military alliance between colonies. Created a congress, but no executive or judicial branches of govt. | 10 | |
| 8358719905 | Pueblo Revolt | Uprising of indigenous people against the Spanish colonizers in Santa Fe New Mexico. The Revolt killed 400 Spanish and drove the rest out of the province. |  | 11 |
| 5759277825 | Anti-Federalist Party | A group of members that opposed the creation of a stronger US federal government and the Constitution. They were led by Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. They believed in a weak central government and strong state governments. They supported small farmers and landowners. They helped in preventing the Federalists from creating a political system like that of the British. |  | 12 |
| 5759277826 | Whig Party | Political Party created in opposition to Andrew Jackson. They supported government programs, reforms, and public schools. They called for internal improvements like canals, railroads, and telegraph lines. |  | 13 |
| 5759277830 | Louisiana Purchase | U.S. purchased France's claim to the territory of east of the Mississippi River. It doubled the size of the US, removed France's presence in the region, and it protected US trade access and free passage. |  | 14 |
| 5759277831 | US Mexican War | War that ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the U.S. paid $15 million for 525,000 square miles of land. |  | 15 |
| 5759277832 | Gadsden Purchase | Land purchased by the US in a present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. It attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War. 1853 |  | 16 |
| 5759277833 | Erie Canal | A canal in New York running from Albany to Buffalo. It created a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes which gave the western states direct access tot he ocean without shipping goods downstream on Mississippi River. |  | 17 |
| 5759277834 | Boston Massacre | The killing of five colonists by British soldiers. It was the culmination of the tensions in the American colonies. It made many colonists rally together to counter the evil British. Changed people's mind about the British. (1770) |  | 18 |
| 5759277835 | Boston Tea Party | Political protest by the Sons of Liberty. They destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India company in defiance of the Tea Act by throwing the chests into the sea. It showed that the American colonies had grown tired of arbitrary taxation by the British. (1773) |  | 19 |
| 5759277836 | Popular Sovereignty | A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. The people are able to vote for if they want slavery or not. This became the law in Kansas and Nebraska after the Kansas Nebraska Act. |  | 20 |
| 5759277837 | Second Great Awakening | A Protestant religious revival movement in the early 1800s. It revived the emotional side of religion, weakened church authority, involved new people (including people of color and women) and played a role in social reform. |  | 21 |
| 5759277838 | French and Indian War | War between England and France fought in the American colonies. Hostilities intensified between the two as they both attempted to colonize land in the Ohio Valley. It marked the beginning of conflicts between Great Britain and the American colonists. (1754-1763) |  | 22 |
| 5759277839 | Revolutionary War | War fought between the American colonies and England. American colonies won war and gained independence. (1775-1783) |  | 23 |
| 5759277840 | Nullification Crisis | A sectional crisis when South Carolina declared that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore void. It showed that the economic and political interests of the North and South were drifting, as they had opposing ideas. |  | 24 |
| 5759277845 | Slave Trade | European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa. Integral part of Triangle Trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe. |  | 25 |
| 5759277865 | Cotton | The most important cash crop in the South by 1850 that needed a large labor force. |  | 26 |
| 5759277867 | American System | An economic system pioneered by Henry Clay which created a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building. This approach was intended to allow the United States to grow and prosper by themselves This would eventually help America industrialize and become an economic power. |  | 27 |
| 5759277871 | Spoils System | Jackson's patronage system, which allowed men to buy their way into office. This resulted in a very corrupt governmental office, but was celebrated by some as more democratic by removing career government w. |  | 28 |
| 5759277874 | Encomienda Systems | Spanish government's policy to "commend", or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland. |  | 29 |
