| A | B |
|---|
| Columbian Exchange | The transportation of people, resources, plants, and livestock between hemispheres |
| Colonization | Establishing and controlling distant settlements |
| Slave trade | Trading people used for forced labor |
| Silk road | Overland travel to Asia from Europe for trade |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | Essentially the first battle of the Revolution. Misnamed for the hill they were fighting for. |
| World powers | Britain and France competed as this |
| The Enlightenment | A period defined by the use of reason and the scientific method |
| The Great Awakening | A religious movement that sought a return to the Puritan code |
| Stamp Act | Taxed anything printed in the colonies. Did not apply to Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson (Pre-Revolution) | Wrote Declaration of Independence. |
| Declaration of Independence | Adopted on July 4, 1776 |
| Electoral college | a group selected by the state to elect the president and the vice-president |
| Checks and balances | provisions in the US Constitution that prevent one branch dominating another |
| Missouri compromise | series of laws enacted to maintain the balance of slave and free states |
| Thomas Jefferson (Post-Revolution) | This man got into a disagreement with Alexander Hamilton over his financial policies for the new nation. |
| Monroe doctrine | US policy warning European nations not in interfere in the affairs of the hemisphere |
| Lewis & Clark | This expedition more than doubled the size of the United States, led by: |
| Mass production | production of goods in large quantities, made possible by the use of machinery and the division of labor |
| Industrial revolution | change in social and economic organization that resulted from the replacement of hand tools with machines |
| Indian removal act | law that forced Native Americans from the East to move to lands in the West |
| Trail of tears | routes along which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia |
| Republic | government in which the people rule through elected representatives |
| Articles of Confederation | Considered weak national government & formed the first government in the new United States |
| Bleeding Kansas | Open fighting in Kansas between pro & anti-slavery supporters |
| Rio Grande | President James K. Polk wanted this river to be the southern boundary of Texas. |
| John Brown | The actions of ___ at Pottawatomie Creek triggered dozens of violent incidents and led to Bleeding Kansas. |
| Texas | Much like the United States of America, this now-current state declared independence from another country |
| Oregon | Most people who used this trail were pioneers who traveled by Conestoga wagons or walked on foot. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican who won the presidency in 1860 |
| John Wilkes Booth | Southern sympathizer and actor who assassinated President Lincoln |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate commander who opposed secession but sided with his beloved state of Virginia |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
| Ulysses S. Grant | hero at Vicksburg who became commander of all Union armies in1864 |
| Ten-Percent | Abraham Lincoln favored this plan for Reconstruction |
| black codes | laws that could deny entry of African Americans to towns, and strip them of rights in towns |
