US History Flashcards
Worlds 20 most important economic and political powers, includes former colonies and non-European countries
G-20
Increasing economic , political and cultural interdependence and interaction throughout the world
Globalization
_ tribe
Long houses and farming
Northeast
Iroquois
_ tribe
Furtrade
Northeast
Algonquin
Three sisters tradition of farming
Corn, beans and squash
Tribes participated in an alliance against the US
Muscogee confederacy
Southern tribe remained in Georgia until forcibly removed
Seven clans
Cherokee
Depended on Buffalo for food and materials
No horses until European contact
Western tribes: Sioux, Cheyenne, Apache,Comanche , Arapaho
Descendants of Anasazi
Cliff dwellings
Arizona
Navajo
Totem poles told history
Fishing and canoes
Pacific Northwest
Chinook and coast Salish
Great Britain consolidated control over North America as a result of
French and Indian war
British victory
Agreement not to settle west of the Appalachians, to make peace
Signed by
Called?
Kings George III
Proclamation of 1763
Colonist forced to shelter British troops stationed in the region
Protest against caused:
Quartering act
Boston massacre
Stirred up rebellion against tax collectors (stamp act)
Led by:
Samuel Adams led sons and daughters of liberty
Protests against quartering act resulted in British troops firing on a crowd of protestors
Boston massacre
1773
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Declared independence of US
Issued Declaration of Independence on July 4,1776
Second continental congress
Ben Franklin, John Adams , Thomas Jefferson, James Madison
Americans favored independence _
Americans still loyal to Britain _
Patriots
Tories
Conflict btwn US and British (and Shawnee)
US prevailed, expanded westward
War of 1812
_ doubled the size of the US
Signed by_
Louisiana purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Fate of US to expand westward and settle
Manifest destiny
Adams-onis treaty
US purchased Florida from Spain after Seminole war
Western Hemisphere is closed to further European colonization
Monroe doctrine
Banned slavery north of the thirty sixth parallel
**permitting slavery in Missouri
Missouri compromise
Forced migration of Indians to make way for white settlers
Followed _ act
Trail of tears
Indian removal act
Main cause of civil war
Slavery
Publicized abolition
American anti slavery society
Frederick Douglass
Repealed the Missouri compromise _ allowed slavery north of 36th parallel
_ emerged
Kansas- Nebraska act - allowed slavery north of the thirty sixth parallel
Republican Party
