US History

Chapter 1- The Collision of Cultures


1. Abigail Adams: Wife of John Adams. During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront. She urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government he was helping to create.


 1. Articles of Confederation: 1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781

Chapter 5- The American Revolution

**African Slave Trade**

African people were taken as slaves to be sold in America, in America they would work in mines & plantations. The profit went to europe where they built goods to then be sold to Africans. It was a triangle.

**Anne Hutchinson**

A woman who was well learned that disagreed wi

Chapter 2- England's Colonies


 1. "No taxation w/o representation": The assertion that Great Britain had no right to tax the American colonies as long as they did not have their own representatives in the British Parliament.
 2. Albany Plan of Union: plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed
    to unite the 13 colo

Chapter 4- From Colonies to States


 1. "women's work": a term formerly used to denigrate domestic and caregiving tasks that were once thought to be the responsibility of females
 2. Age of Reason: A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of
    reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
 3. baw

Chapter 3- Colonial Ways of Life

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 1. "Mad" Anthony Wayne: Revolutionary war soldier and commander in chief of
    the U.S. Army from 1792-1796, he secured the Treaty of Greenville after soundly
    defeating the Miami Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
 2. 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States b

Chapter 6- Strengthening the New Nation

**Ecology:** the study of relationships between living organisms and organisms and their environment

**Species**: a group of organisms which can interbreed and produce fertile offspring

**Population**: a group of organisms of the same species who live in the same area at the same time

**Community

Ecology

**Food chain:** The sequence of organisms that provide food for one another

→ started by green plants because they are able to capture light energy from the sun

→ making green plants at the lowest trophic level

**Food web:** gives a more realistic picture of the feeding relations of the organisms