Chapter 3 Flashcards
To build settlements and develop trade in lands that they controlled
Colonize
Large farms that grow crops for profit
Plantations
Were sent by the Roman Catholic Church to convince native Americans to accept Christianity
Missionaries
3 acts passed by England
Stamp act
Tea act
Townsend act
An act of protest in the colonies where angry colonists dumped a shipment of tea from Britian into Boston harbor
Boston tea party
Growing just enough food to feed ones family
Subsistence farming
Who traveled to France to help convince the French government to support the patriot cause against Britain
Benjamin Franklin
Arrangement by president Thomas Jefferson and it doubled the size of the country
Louisiana purchase
The idea that the US should expand its territory to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest destiny
116 day journey to Oklahoma made by the Cherokee
Trail of tears
The shift to large scale production
Industrialization
A railroad, completed in 1869, which crossed the entire continent
Transcontinental railroad
The movement for ending slavery
Abolition
Freed all slaves in the confederate territory
Emancipation proclamation
The effort to rebuild and reunite the states as one nation after the civil war
Reconstruction
The refusal to take sides
Neutrality
What two cities did the US bomb to end WWII
Hiroshima- August 6
Nagasaki- August 9
Hitlers organized murder of Jews and other groups
Holocaust
Long period of political tension without fighting
Cold War
The use of violence to achieve political results
Terrorism
What crop led early populations to grow in Mexico
Maize
A system of writing that consists mostly of pictures and symbols
Hieroglyphics
The Mayans studied what topics which allowed them to develop an accurate calendar
Sun
Moon
Stars
Planets
An extensive group of people’s governed by one ruler– the Aztecs created this in modern day Mexico
Empire
