N's Flashcards
Napoleonic Wars
continuing conflicts in Europe between France under Napoleon and the European powers led by Britain in which both sides tried to prevent trade with their enemies by neutral powers, especially the United States
Nat Turner’s Revolt
The largest slave uprising in U.S. history, in which Nat Turner murdered his master and his family in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831 and along with seventy-five followers, rampaged through the county and killed about sixty white people
National Banking Act
an 1863 law that facilitated the financing of the war through credit expansions
National Road
a road from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling in what is now West Virginia, completed in 1818 and built with federal funds, that linked the Potomac and the Ohio Rivers
Nativist movement
a movement based on alarm on the part of native-born Americans at the rising tide of German and Irish immigration during the late 1840s and early 1850s
Nauvoo, Illinois
The site on the banks of the Mississippi River where, in 1839, the Mormons built the largest city in the state, had their own militia, and were a political force to be reckoned with
Navigation Acts
laws enacted by the British Parliament (in 1651, 1660, 1663 and 1673) to make the American colonies fit into its scheme of mercantilism; these laws also were the foundation of England’s worldwide commercial system and some of the most important pieces of imperial legislation during the colonial period
New Amsterdam
a Dutch fur-trading post established in 1624 on Manhattan Island by the Dutch West India Company
New England
colonies that had stable, well-ordered, and well-educated societies and developed a prosperous economy based on small farming, home industry, fishing, and especially trade and a large shipbuilding industry
New France
following England’s successful colonization of Virginia, France’s renewed interest in and establishment of fur-trading posts and forts in areas of North America previously visited by French explorers, with the St. Lawrence River being the French gateway to the continent’s interior
New Hampshire
a colony whose settlement in 1677 did not involve any disagreement at all among the Puritans but was simply settled as an overflow from Massachusetts
New Jersey
Formerly part of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands, taken over by the British, and granted to two of the Carolina proprietors as a proprietary colony
New Jersey Plan
the plan by representatives of smaller states, who objected to the Virginia plan, for the continuation of a unicameral legislature with equal representation for the states as well as sharply increased powers for the national government
New Lights
those in the religious community who accepted the Great Awakening and sometimes suffered persecution because of their fervor
New Mexico
a former territory of Mexico, it became an American territory in 1846; along with Texas and California, its status in relation to American expansion and the issue of slavery became a source of concern by American politicians
