1607-1754
This is the reason that the Southern Colonies established?
What is that Southern colonies; Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas, and Georgia, were established in order to make Britain wealthier.
This is the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?
What is to prevent hostilities between Indians and Land-Hungry colonists
These are the issues did the political parties debate over in the early 1800s? (Federalists and Democratic-Republicans)
What are tariffs, power of the federal government, relations with European powers (France and England)
These were reasons for westward migration? (Manifest Destiny)
What is the access to natural and mineral resources, economic opportunities for settlers, religious refuge (Mormons).
These are the primary causes of the Spanish-American War
What is the sinking of the USS Maine, yellow journalism, American sympathy for Cuban independence, and economic interests in Cuba.
This is the reasons that New England established and who was it established by?
What is that New England states, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, were established by Puritans seeking religious freedom.
These are the impacts of the 7 Years' War? (French and Indian)
What is that France was removed from North America, Britain was in MASSIVE debt, ended salutary neglect, and began taxing the colonists. The war altered the relationship between the British and the colonists.
These are the Supreme Court decisions determine in the early 1800s? (Under John Marshall)
What is the primacy of the judiciary in determining the meaning of the Constitution (think judicial review) and giving federal laws power over state governments (think Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland)
These were the impacts of the US acquiring the Mexican Cession?
What is the debates over the status of slavery (Wilmot Proviso), Native Americans, and Mexicans in the newly acquired land.
"How the Other Half Lives" is about ________
"The Jungle" is about ___________
"The Shame of Cities" is about _________
-Tenements
-Meatpacking Industries/Factory Work
-Corruption in city government
This is the results of the Navigation Acts?
What is the Navigation Acts resulted in resistance from both the Dutch and American Colonies and caused three commercial wars between the Dutch and the British.
This is the reason that the colonists united the in resisting the British in the 1760s and 1770s
What is the Stamp, Sugar, Townshend Acts without colonial consent, perceived and real constraints on economic activities and political rights (Quartering Acts).
This was the impact of the Second Great Awakening?
What are moral and social reforms (think abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, etc.)
These were the goals of the Nativist movement?
What is an Anti-Catholic platform, hoping to limit the power and cultural influence of the immigrants (Irish and Germans).
Mythology of the South, that slavery was not the cause of the Civil War, and the whitewashing of America's history
What is the Lost Cause?
This is the cause of the increase in slavery after Bacon's Rebellion.
What is that several of Bacon's followers were indentured servants, thus the leaders of Virginia believed that African American slaves would be much more docile, leading to an increase of the slave trade.
This is the message of Common Sense
What is that Thomas Paine's writing encouraged America to break away from England. It also helped influence the Declaration of independence.
How did the production of goods change during the Market Revolution?
What is goods were increasingly made outside the home. Women and men began working in factories.
These were ways abolitionists campaigned against slavery
What is moral arguments (such as William Lloyd Garrison), assisting slaves' escapes (such as Underground RR), using violence (such as Bleeding-Kansas and Harpers Ferry).
Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
In this revolution, the English removed James II from the throne and replaced him with William and Mary, who pledge their support to a parliamentary system and thus ended the authoritarian nature of the Dominion of New England.
What is the Glorious Revolution
This is the call for women to teach republican values within the family and provided educational opportunities for women.
What is "republican motherhood"?
These 3 factors: Maine was a free state, Missouri was a slave state, everything above 36 30 latitude line would be free, everything below would be slave. This applied to ONLY the Louisiana Purchase. Later overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act (possible synthesis point).
What was the Missouri Compromise
This as the solution to the Mexican Cession - popular sovereignty would be used in the territory, the slave trade was banned in Washington D.C., California was added as a free state, a more strict fugitive slave law was created.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The slaughter of some 300 Lakota men, women and children by U.S. Army troops in the 1890
The Wounded Knee Massacre