These are study notes for United States History. They can be used to study for final exams. These notes contain information on The Colonial period through Union times.
Date Submitted: 10/01/2003 22:22:51
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 10 pages (2655 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 10 pages (2655 words)
Ch 1 & 2 Review
1. Reformation- Religious movement in the 16th century Europe, reform the catholic church.
2. joint stock company- Business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose.
3. Jamestown- First colony established by John Smith.
4. indentured servants-People that came to the new world in exchange of the passage, they agreed to a limited term of servitude.
5. House of Burgesses- Virginia's colonial legislature.
6. Pilgrims- Group of people that fled from Holland and built the Plymouth …
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14. Sharecropping-Landowners divided land & gave each household a few acres, seeds, tools.
15. tenant farming-Rent land for cash.
16. crop lien system-
17. vagrancy laws-
18. Ku Klux Klan- Southern group that wanted to destroy the Democratic Party & prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights.
19. Election of 1876-Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio nominated for presidency against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden of New York.
20. Compromise of 1876- the withdraw of federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina.
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