| Term | Definition |
|---|
| alien acts | made it more difficult for immigrants to become citizens |
| sedition acts | made it a crime for citizens to publicly descredit the federal leaders |
| christopher columbus | italian mariner who discovered america - thought he was going to the indies of east asia |
| colonial economies | raising tobacco for export, farming, rice, cattle lumber, and fishing |
| columbian exchange | the traffic of goods and ideas among europe, africa, asia, and the americas - products and ideas are exchanged between the hemispheres |
| declaration of independence | is an assertion of the independence of an aspiring state or states - document written by thomas jefferson - declared american independence and natural rights of people |
| english bill of rights | signed by king william and queen mary in 1688, a list of freedoms that the government promised to protect |
| european explorers | columbus - spain, lweis and clark, bartolomeu disas - portugal - traveled southern tip of africa into the indian ocean, vascodegama - reached india |
| federalism | a political system in which power is shared between the national government and state government |
| first continental congress | convention of delegates from 12 british norht american colonies that met in 1744 - appealed to the british government to stop taxing the colonies - british refused |
| french in the us | owned part of louisiana - the patriots received military assistance from france |
| james madison | designed the virginina plan, which advocated a national union that was both strong and republican - house of representatives and a senate |
| jeffersonian republicans | a dominant political party in the united states |
| lewis and clark | first american overland expedition to the pacific coast and back |
| louisiana purchase | jefferson bought a vast territory from france extending from the mississippi river to the rocky mountains - doubled the us and cost 15 million dollars |
| missouri compromise | was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery - 1820 agreement calling for the admission of missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state - banned slavery in the louisiana purchase territory norht of the 36 30N latitude |
| native americans | indigneous people |
| natural rights | is the concept of a universal right inherent in the nature of living beings |
| republic | state or country that is not led by hereditary monarch |
| revolutionary war | won independence from britain with the victory in the american revolution - a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time |
| separation of powers | principle where the powers of government are divided between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches |
| shays rebellion | the state of massachusetts sent troops to suppress this revolt. the rebellion highlighted the weaknesses of the federal government |
| stamp act | law enacted by a government that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents |
| treaty of paris | agreement signed by the us and spain in 1898 which officially landed the spanish-american war |
| vespucci amerigo | explorer and cartographer, was the first person to demonstrate the new world |
| whiskey rebellion | a popular uprising that had it beginning in 1791 |
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