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EOQ. Columbian Exchange. The route of trade among Africa, Asia, and the Americas following Columbus’s trip to the West Indies. Cherokee. The largest group of Indians left in the Carolinas Mountain regions of NC. The Lost Colony. 1 st attempt by the English to colonize America
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Columbian Exchange • The route of trade among Africa, Asia, and the Americas following Columbus’s trip to the West Indies
Cherokee • The largest group of Indians left in the Carolinas • Mountain regions of NC
The Lost Colony • 1st attempt by the English to colonize America • Location was modern day Roanoke, VA • All colonists disappeared
Jamestown • 1st successful English colony
Culpeper's Rebellion • Colonists and England clash over Navigation Act • Thomas Miller sent to be governor and enforce Navigation Acts • John Culpepper leads about 40 men to rebel against the unfair laws
New Bern • Colonial capital of NC
Piedmont • Is where the Triad is located, WS, Gboro, High Point • Lies in the middle of the state
French and Indian War • 7 years war • War between England who fought the Indians and the French • They fought over the French being in American land • French were here to get fur, fish
Moravians • Religious group • Came to America to escape war and gain religious freedom • Settled in Forsyth County
Parliament • legislature of the Kingdom of England
Continental Army • Lead by George Washington • It is the army of the colonies
Boston Tea Party • Colonist boycott a tax on tea enforced by England • They throw tea in the harbor of Boston
Tarheel • North Carolinians produced large amounts of tar and pitch • 1860s Civil War soldiers stuck to their positions as though they had tar on their heels
cash crops • crops sold for profit • tobacco, rice, indigo 15
Industrial Revolution • Began in England mid 1700s • machinery was developed • more factories were built • Centered in NE • Colonists moving to the Midwest and SW • more canals, road, railroads were built 16
Manifest Destiny • Mindset or belief that the US was destined to expand across the continent • Westward exspansion 17
Jacksonian Democracy • Andrew Jackson • movement towards greater democracy • equal political policy • end to government by the elites 18
Constitution of 1835 • gave western counties more seats in the legislature • finally took control from eastern planters in NC 19
gold rush • 1824-1850 • 1824 gold found in Rowan County • large gold mining companies came to NC 20
Revolutionary War battles • Battle of Kings Mountain • Guilford Courthouse • Moore’s Creek Bridge 21
Extra Credit Op • Research the technology of the Revolutionary War • Compare it to the technology of todays world • Find a creative way to illustrate your findings • I am flexible to your ideas, BUT they must be approved by ME first • Email me or conference with me once your ideas are well developed • This will be DUE on Monday, December 19, 2011 22
westward expansion • european settlers began to move and expand westward 23
Indian Removal Act • signed into law by Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, • at the end of the Revolutionary War colonists wanted to expand west • west was Indian lands • The act granted tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their territories within state borders, mainly in the Southeast. • Some tribes refused to trade their land, and U.S. troops forced tribes such as the Cherokee to march westward in what became known as the Trail of Tears 24