Midterm Review

Question 0

Encomienda

Answer 0

Labor system by the Spanish Americans that allowed conquistadors to claim tribute for labor and goods in Indian communities

Question 1

Christopher Columbus

Answer 1

Spanish explorer who united the two worlds

Question 2

Missions

Answer 2

Other cultures would visit others to get a feel for why they were like.

Question 3

Colombian Exchange

Answer 3

Exchange of ideas, food, materials, and disease between the old and new worlds

Question 4

Indigenous labor

Answer 4

Using native people as slaves for the conquerors

Question 5

Indentured Servitude

Answer 5

Contract bound slavery

Question 6

Enslaved Africans

Answer 6

Africans were captured and sold in the Atlantic Slave Trade for high prices

Question 7

Mercantilism

Answer 7

System of political economy based on govt regulation. Navigation Acts controlled commerce and enrichment for Britain

Question 8

Navigation Acts

Answer 8

English ministered wanted agriculture goods to be strictly sent to English ports.NA OF 1651 made it so that all goods transported were owned by English or colonial merchants

Question 9

Revenue Act of 1673

Answer 9

Imposed a plantation duty on American exports of sugar an tobacco

Question 10

Glorious Revolution

Answer 10

James II was overthrown by William of Orange. Whig politicians forced William and Mary to accept the Declaration of rights, creating a constitutional monarchy.

Question 11

Salutary Neglect

Answer 11

The lack of supervision on internal colonial affairs (George 1 and 2)

Question 12

Seven Years War

Answer 12

Britain went all out and lost a crap ton of money. French lost.

Question 13

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 13

Proposed that one general government be formed in America

Question 14

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Answer 14

Satiric essay on th traditional monarchical order

Question 15

Declaration of Independence

Answer 15

Declaration that the states are separate from the entity of Britain

Question 16

Articles of confederation

Answer 16

Written document defining the structure of the government from 1781 to 1788.

Question 17

Era of Good Feeling

Answer 17

8 years after the Republican Party split. James Monroes presidency.

Question 18

Jacksonian Era

Answer 18

Abolitionism, Bank War, Indian Removal, nullification, Panic of 1837, Tariff of 1828, etc

Question 19

Sectional Crisis

Answer 19

North and South were separated in views of slavery, industry, text

Question 20

Reconstruction

Answer 20

Period of time after the Civil War to better the country

Question 21

Alien Act

Answer 21

Authorized deportation of foreigners

Question 22

Sedition Act

Answer 22

Prohibited insults on the president and congress

Question 23

Virginia and Kentucky Resolution

Answer 23

Set forth a states rights interpretation of the Consttitution. All states had the right to judge the legitimacy of national laws.

Question 24

Arguments for slavery

Answer 24

Slaves were property, cheap labor, large amount of them, help serve the plantations

Question 25

Arguments against slavery

Answer 25

Inhumane to the slaves, not proper treatment, white suppression

Question 26

Marbury vs. Madison

Answer 26

Court has no power to approve appointments

Question 27

Nullification

Answer 27

Constitutional argument that a state could could a law passed by Congress

Question 28

Mexican American War

Answer 28

AMERICA won, we got land up to Colorado. Ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 29

Anaconda strategy

Answer 29

Circle across the U.S. from right to left and squeeze the nation together