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The Trans-Atlantic Trade was a trade network between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Manufactured goods were sent to Africa. Slaves were sent to the Americas. Raw materials were sent to Europe.
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The Columbian Exchange was the exchangement and trading of goods, plants, and diseases. It came about when Europeans began to come to the Americans. For exapmle, beans, tomatoes and turkey fro the Americas. They would be echanged for rice, wheat, and pigs from Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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The non-tolerant religious gruop who left Englad to free them selves of religious persecution.
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Oldest British North American colony.
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Left the Anglican Church to begin their own churches.
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Original theirtenn colony founded by John Winthrop.
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One of the original thirteen colonies
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Christians who settled in Pennsylvania.
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety," - Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin.
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Buffer state estblished for debotors by Great Britian.
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The French anad Indians vs. the British for the Ohio River valley. The British won.
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Peace treaty to the french and Indian War.
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First French colony
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The Quatering Act was placed on the British North American colonies. It was put in place after the Seven Years War. It stated that colonist must provide housing for British troops.
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Struct down the Stamp Act.
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Colonist threw rocks and snowballs at British soliders. The soilders fired into the crowd killing five people including Crispus Attucks.
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Closed the Boston Harbor.
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Letter to Great Britian declaring our Independence.
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Delegates from 13 colonies who meet to discuss grievances with Great Britian.
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Delegates from the colonies that met in Philadelphia to discuss issues with Great Britian.
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Phamplet written by Thomas Paine.
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The Daughters of Liberty werw the non-violent protestors against the British. They protested the British taxes by making their own clothing rather than by bvuying from British manufactures.
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location of Washington's winter encampment during the Revloutionary War.
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The Articles of Confederation were created to have the priginal thirteen states working as one without a centralized power. They were created by John Dickinson from Pennsylvania. They would include a Congress of delegates, There would be no president nor an executive branch, and the Congress would make all decisions.
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The Battle of yorktown was the final battle of the American Revolution. The American military with aid of the french trapped the British so they couldn't escape. This forced general Cornwallis' British Army to retreat and surrender to General Washington of the Continental Army.
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Shay's Rebellion was a revolt led by Massachusetts farmers who decided to take matters into their own hands. they were upset about losing their property because they could not afford to pay the high taxes that the Massachusetts government was imposing. This rebellion showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation because the government could not surress the revolt.
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Apart of the Great Compromise. Each state's representatives are based off of that states population.
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The Virginia Plan was one of the compromises that led to a plan of government. It was written by James Madison. This plan consisited of a strong president, three branches of government, a bicameral system based off of a state's population, and the President would have the power to veto anything.
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The Current Constitution of America
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First 10 Amendments of the Constitution. Gives Americans their rights.
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"Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingraditude." -George Washington, Letter to Governor Dinwiddie
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Apart of the Great Coprimise to keep chacks and balances
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Made the production of cotton much easier.
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The french attempt to bribe the U.S. after seizing American merchant ships. It was in retalliation to to the jay Treaty of 1794 which offended them They look at it as a betrayal of their 1778 treaty of their alliance with the U.S.
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Parts that were pre-manufactured and could be used to any practical purpose.
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Route that escaped slaves traveled to get to the North to be free. It was led by Harriet Tubman.
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“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.” - Susan B. Anthony
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The Industrial Revolution is when factyories and innovations in technology were being created.
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“My friends, circumstances render it immposible that you can flourish in the widwest of a civilized community. You have but one remedy within your reach, and that is to remove west. And the sooner you do this, the sooner you will commence your career of improvement and prosperity.” - Andrew Jackson
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Women's Rights Convention
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Owner and governor of the Maryland colony
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Factories converted to make military goods during WW2. Rosie the Riverte symbolized working women.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was an abolotionists and her book allowed everyone to experience slavery, even those who had never had the chance to witness slarvery firsthand. The book sold over 300,000 copies in its first year.
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Political party
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Before the Civil War, Kansas entered the Union as a slave state and Nebraska as a free state. This Act struct down the Missouri Compromise of 1820 because States Would now decide whether or not they would enter the Union free or not by popular sovereignty.
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Wanted to give African Americans their rights during Reconstruction
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Jane Addams is a pioneer of the social services. She founded the Hull House to Americanize and educate ummigrants. Her Hull House provided social aid for the urban poor.
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A slave who sewed for his freedowm.
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President of the Confederate States of Ammerica during the Civil War.
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The first baettle of the Civil War happened at Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter was the last Union controlled military fort in the South, and the Confederates wanted to retrieve it. The Confederates attacked the Fort starting the Civil War.The Battle of Forst Sumter was a Confederate victory.
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Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves in the Southern states during the Civil War.
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Battle during the Civil War. Union victory.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. It also was a turning point for the Union as it was won in their favor. They achieved this victory by forcing Robert Lee, Confederate general, to retreat.
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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Reconstruction began right after the Civil War. The South was destroyed by the Union forces and one-fourth of Southern white men died in the Civil War. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were created and implemented during this time. There were two motives to reconstruct: Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan and Radical Republican Reconstruction.
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Signed in to law by President Ulysses S. Grant.
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Segregated public places in the South.
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Era full of political and social reforms.
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Ellis Island is located on the harbor of New York. It is where European immigrants entered into the United States at the East Coast. At Ellis Island, the imigrants would be processed on the ships and released if they did not have any medical problems.
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“We, as freemen, still believe that we were right and our cause is sacred.” - New Orleans Committee of Citizens
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U.S. foregin policy
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Glorification of military during WW1
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Voters vote on proposed laws.
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Hold vote to remove office holders.
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Ida Tarbell was a muckraker during the Progressive Movement. She wrote The History of Standard Oil which exposed John Rockefeller. the book describes how he used unfair methods to ruin competitors, charge higher prices, and get huge profits out of it.
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Muckraker who wrote The Jungle.
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The Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded by W.E.B DuBois. The social group was founded to provide legal assistance to blacks to combat racial discrimination kin politics, education, socially, and economically.
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President during WW1
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First World War.
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During WW1, Germany asked Mexico to form an alliance with them. Germany asked Mexico to attack the U.S. The Zimmerman Telegraph was one of the three reasons the U.S. fought in World War One.
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Army draft for WW1
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Prohitted any attempts to interfere with any military operations.
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Apart of Woodrow Wilsons 14 Points.
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"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you reallywant to go." -Langston Hughes
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Bad farming practices leading to the Great Depression.
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The underbuying of consumers during the great depression.
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government efforts to send Mexican immigrants and their childrem back to Mexico.
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F.D.R's policies to relieve the U.S. aftter the Great Depression.
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Okies were refugees from the Dust Bowl of the great Depression, They were from Oklahoma and were moving in search of work. Many traveled until they reached California.
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Were apart of U.S. isolationism.
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The alliance between the U.S., France and Great Britian
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Second World War
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"We are buying . . . not lending. We are buying our own security while we prepare. By our delay during the past six years, while Germany was preparing, we find ourselves unprepared and unarmed, facing a thoroughly prepared and armed potential enemy." - Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War
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Pearl harbor was a surprise attack of the Japanese on a U.S. naval base in Hawaii. Japan bombed the naval bases and killed 3,000 civilians. The attack was led by General Hideki Tojo. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the U.S.'s reason for entering WW2.
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Spanish word for conqueror.
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The Manhattan Projectwas led by Robert Oppenhimer in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was a plan to develop the Atomic Bomb that was dropped on Japn during World War Two by President Harry Truman. Two bombs were developed from this project and they forced Japan to surrender.
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Strategy used by the U.S. on Japan during WW2.
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""You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you...I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle."- Dwight Eisenhower
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The location of Operation overload
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Harry Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. He served two terms and was the President during the Second World War. He is responsible for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nakasagi which ended World War Two. He is also responsible for the integration of the military which happened in1948.
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War beteen North and South Korea. The U.S. fough on the side of South Korea.
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Little Rock 9 was the first attempt to implement the Brown v. B.O.E. decision. There were nine students who were handpicked because they were all honor students. they were selected to attend Central Highschool, an all white school, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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The Woolsworth Sit-ins took place in Greensboro, North Carolina. It started with four students from North Carolina A&T who wanted to stage a sit0in at the Woolsworhlunch counters. They successfully challenged the segregation of public resturants in the Souh.
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Under General Eisenhower's Presidency, the CIA had an authorized plan to invade Cube and overthrow, leader, Fidel Castro. However, the invasion did not take place until Kennedy's presidency. Kennedy went through with the plan, but it failed. Only 300 of 1,400 invaders survived and it strengthed the power of Fidel Castro.
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Outlawed segregation in public accomadations.
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Banned literacy test when trying to vote.
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One of the welfare programs apart of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society program.
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Military Campaing during the Vietnam War.
