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Jamestown in 1619 - -20 African American slaves arrived
-Mayflower Compact - -bound pilgrims to live in a civil society according to
their own laws.
-Economies of Colonial Regions - -concentrated on agriculture and
developed the plantations exporting tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain,
fruit and livestock. The Southern Colonies had the largest slave population
who worked on the Slave Plantations.
-Indentured Service/Slave - -traded their freedom for travel to American and
working for an X amount of years
-French and Indian War Results - -Great expansion of British territorial claim
in the new world, But greatly enlarged Britain's debt
-Boston Massacre - -arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward
British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and
killed several persons. Examples from the Web for Boston Massacre Expand.
-Boston Tea Party- - -arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward
British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and
killed several persons. Examples from the Web for Boston Massacre Expand.
-Yorktown - -The last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 near
the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis
surrendered his army to General George Washington.
-Articles of Confederation - -the original constitution of the US, ratified in
1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
-Constitutional Compromises- - -was an agreement that large and small
states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part
defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would
have under the United States
-Amendments 1- - -freedom of speech
-Amendment 2 - -right to bear arms
-Amendment 4 - -No search and seizure unless probable cause
, -Amendment 10 - -t any power that is not given to the federal government
is given to the people or the states.
-Opposing Interpretations of Constitution - -Strict- Congress should be
allowed to exercise very few implied powers so that government will remain
small Broad/Loose- Congress should be allowed to exercise many implied
powers so that government can take a greater role in shaping events
-Precedents Set By G. Washington - -declared the nation neutral in the
conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings
against any American providing assistance to any country at war.
-Adams and Virginia/ Kentucky Resolutions- - -The Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions were primarily protests against the limitations on civil liberties
contained in the Alien and Sedition Acts rather than expressions of full-blown
constitutional theory.
-XYZ Affair - -was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early
in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the
United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the
Quasi-War.
-Haiti/ Louisiana Purchase- - -was a land deal between the United States
and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles
of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. And there was a rebellion
in Haiti that convinced the French to make the sell of the Louisiana purchase
-Barbary Pirates- - -The main purpose of their attacks was to capture
Christian Slaves for the ottoman slave trade as well as the general Arabic
Market in North Africa and the Middle East
-War of 1812 - -ushered in the Era of Good Feelings, It marked the end of
the Federalist party, broke the power of American Indians, national self-
confidence, and encouraged the heady expansionism
-Year Without A Summer- 1816 - -belongs to a three-year period of severe
climate deterioration of global scope caused by the eruption of Mt. Tambora
in Indonesia in April, 1815.
-Monroe Doctrine - -was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the
Americas in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to
colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be
viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
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