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Indentured Servants
Indentured servitude refers to the historical practice of contracting to work for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for transportation, food, clothing, lodging and other necessities during the term of indenture. TERM 2
Pueblo Rebellion
DEFINITION 2 The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, or Pop's Rebellion, was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish settlers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mxico, present day New Mexico. TERM 3
Cash Crops
DEFINITION 3 A cash crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. TERM 4
Chattel Slavery
DEFINITION 4 Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. TERM 5
Olaudah Equiano
DEFINITION 5 Olaudah Equiano(c. 1745 - 31 March 1797) also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall (March 28, 1652 - January 1, 1730) was a Massachusetts judge, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph (1700), which criticized slavery. TERM 7
3/5 Compromise
DEFINITION 7 The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. TERM 8
Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
DEFINITION 8 The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi- War. TERM 9
Articles of Confederation
DEFINITION 9 The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. TERM 10
Coercive Acts
DEFINITION 10 The Coercive Acts or the Intolerable Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America.
Mercantilism
Mercantilism is the economic doctrine that government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the prosperity and military security of the state. TERM 17
Proclamation of 1763
DEFINITION 17 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. TERM 18
Bleeding Kansas
DEFINITION 18 Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state. TERM 19
Compromise of 1850
DEFINITION 19 The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). TERM 20
Emancipation Proclamation
DEFINITION 20 The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers.
Fugitive Slave Law
The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. TERM 22
Kansas-Nebraska Act
DEFINITION 22 The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. TERM 23
Missouri Compromise
DEFINITION 23 The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.
