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History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Melting pot | Immigrants from diverse backgrounds will come to America and melt into a single American culture. |
| Mestizos | a person of evenly mixed Indian and Hispanic ancestry |
| vaqueros | Spanish and Mexican horsemen who worked on ranches and cattle drives |
| Tejanos | people of Hispanic descent native to Texas |
| Quebecois | French speaking people native to Quebec Canada in new France |
| Arcadians | French speaking decedents of early French colonists |
| Border landers | cultural group native to the region between the US and Mexico in the far west |
| Dixie Coalition | Political alliance between the conservative south Deep south tidewater and greater Appalachia |
| cavaliers | cultural group native to the southern US tidewater |
| Quakers | Religious group part of midlands |
| 49ers | traveled to California in search for gold left coast |
| reconstruction | attempt to re integrate the south into the union. |
| counterculture | antiwar anti-authoritarian sexual revolution new drugs music clothe and hair |
| Values of Yankeedom | social and political equality Individualism Strong government |
| Values of New Netherlands | Diversity Tolerance decentralized government |
| Values of Midlands | Moderation Individualism balanced government |
| Values of Tidewater | Tradition Hierarchy strong government |
| Values of Greater Appalachia | Individualism self reliance decentralized government |
| Values of the Deep South | Tradition Hierarchy Strong government |
| Values of New France | Community Tradition Decentralized government |
| Values of el Norte | community tradition decentralized government |
| Values of the Far West | Individualism Self reliance decentralized government |
| Values of the Left Coast | social and political equality diversity strong government |
| People that settled in Yankeedom | Puritans followed by english settelers as well as Dutch French and German immigrants |
| People that settled in New Netherlands | Dutch by Dutch west India company as well as some Germans Scandinavians and Africans brought over as slaves. |
| People that settled in the Midlands | Dutch and English Quakers and other religious decedents also German immigrants |
| People that settled in Tidewater | English colonists primarily from southern England wealthy aristocrats and their servants. |
| People that settled in Greater Appalachia | Scots-Irish immigrants farmers and frontiersmen |
| People that settled in the deep south | Slave lords from Barbados |
| People that settled in New France | French colonists |
| People that settled in El Norte | Spanish colonists |
| People that settled in Far wast | Indigenous people followed by Spanish 100s of years later |
| People that settled in the Left Coast | Indigenous people followed by Spanish |
| Yankeedom and slavery | Some new England states were the first to abolish slavery but they were heavily involved in the slave trade |
| New Neatherlands and slavery | The Dutch west India company was heavily involved in the slave trade however the number of slaves i the region is relatively small |
| Midlands and slavery | Not as involved in the slave trade but slavery was still practiced |
| Tidewater and slavery | heavily dependent on slave labor some residents opposed slavery on moral grounds while others saw it as necessary |
| Greater Appalachia and slavery | Not as widespread as tidewater or deep south but economy did rely heavily on slaves |
| Deep south and slavery | Deeply committed to slavery |
| New France and slavery | While some owned slaves slavery was not central to the economy |
| El Norte and slavery | No strong tradition of slavery |
| Far west and slavery | No strong tradition of slavery |
| Left coast and slavery | No strong tradition of slavery |
| 1st wave of immigration | 1830-1860 4.5mil Irish German and English |
| 2nd wave of immigration | 1860-1890 9mil from Scandinavia and China |
| 3rd wave of immigration | 1890-1924 18mil southern and Eastern Europe |
| Where did the 3 waves of immigrants mostly settle | New Netherlands Midlands Yankeedom and Left coast |