U.S. History Mid-Term Study (SSUSH1-13)

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Focused on a Cash Crop economy and had a peaceful relationship with American Indians early on that later turned hostile.

• Battle of Atlanta

• Muckrakers

• Southern Colonies

• Mercantilism

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire. Founded by the Puritans for religious freedom.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• New England Colonies

• Sedition Act

• Abolitionist Movement

Founded as money-making ventures and relied on a positive relationship with American Indians which was very different than the other colonies.

• Valley Forge

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Compromise of 1850

• NAACP

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by exporting more goods than they had to import.

• Mercantilism

• Civil War Amendments

• Temperance Movement

• Abolitionist Movement

Workers imported by force; owned by another person; not paid or free to leave. Population began to rapidly grow in the colonies by the 1700's.

• African Slaves

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Battle of Saratoga

• Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.

• Conservation Movement

• Middle Passage

• Railroads

• Treaty of Paris 1763

Between Europe, Africa, and North America. Europe took slaves from Africa and sent them to the states. From the states they took Molasses, tea, and cotton, and really gave nothing back to the slaves.

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Conservation Movement

• Andrew Jackson

• Trans-Atlantic Trade

Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.

• Ellis Island

• Andrew Jackson

• Henry Clay's American System

• The Great Awakening

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies which allowed them to form a sense of individuality.

• Anti-Federalists

• American Federation of Labor

• Salutary Neglect

• Treaty of Paris 1783

(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

• Sectionalism

• French and Indian War

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Nullification Crisis