Periods 1&2
In what year was the first permanent English settlement established, and what was is called?
1607, Jamestown
What treaty ended the French and Indian War?
Treaty of Paris
What event transformed the population and landscape in California?
The Gold Rush
What kind of warfare was very popular during WWI?
Trench Warefare
What global conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union emerged directly after WWII?
The Cold War
What year did Christopher Columbus discover the new world?
1492
What British decree forbade Anglo-American colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
What was the expansion of the U.S. across North America called?
Manifest Destiny
What amendment allowed for the direct election of senators?
Seventeenth
What stated that the United States would do whatever it takes to contain communism around the world?
The Truman Doctrine
What was the transatlantic voyage from Africa to the New World used to bring over slaves called?
The Middle Passage
What war was followed by the Louisiana Purchase?
War of 1812
What year was the 15th amendment ratified?
1870
The progressive era arose as a response to negative result of what?
Industrialization
After WWII, what did President Roosevelt sign to help support veterans as they returned home?
The GI Bill
Whad did contact between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans result in?
The Columbian Exchange
What invention during 1793 expanded slavery tremendously?
Cotton Gin
What anti civil rights group formed in 1866?
Klu Klux Klan
What were corporate bosses during the progressive era sometimes referred to?
Robber Barrons
What prohibited American assistance in training, equipping, or advising the rebel contras in Nicaragua?The Boland Amendment
The Boland Amendment
To begin extracting wealth from the new found territories, the Spanish crown turned to what system of labor?
Encomienda system
What are the five fundamental freedoms of the first amendment?
Religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech
What resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden?
Compromise of 1877
The Treaty of Versailles was negotiated at what?
Paris Peace Conference of 1919
This 1994 trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada eliminated many tariffs and increased economic integration in North America.
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)