Period 1 (1492-1607)
Period 2 (1607-1754)
Period 3 (1754-1800)
Period 4 (1800-1848)
Period 5 (1844-1877)
100
This European country may not have discovered the Americas first, but are credited for starting the "Age of Exploration."
What is Portugal?
100
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
100
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are otherwise known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
This political party served as the main opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats throughout the 1820s-1840s.
What is the Whig party?
100
Phrase associated with this image.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The demographic change shown in this graph is a result of this global event.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
Introduced by John Rolfe, this cash crop is responsible for the initial success of England's North American colonies.
What is tobacco?
200
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
While mainly known for inventing the cotton gin, Eli Whitney had another invention that was equally (if not more) important for the development of American industry.
What are interchangeable parts?
200
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..." is part of a decree issued by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Procamantion?
300
This religious schism caused centuries of conflict throughout Europe, while also serving as one of the main causes of European exploration & colonization in the 16th and 17th centuries.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
300
What is Triangular trade?
300
This phrase is used to describe Great Britain's attitude towards enforcing its mercantilist laws in the 13 colonies PRIOR to the end of the Seven Years' War.
What is salutary neglect?
300
This supreme court case created the concept of "judicial review."
What is Marbury v. Madison?
300
While later known for his raid on Harper's Ferry, VA, John Brown first engaged in anti-slavery violence during this prelude to the Civil War.
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
400
One of the first "gunpowder empires" and one of the main reasons European nations began investing in naval exploration.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400
The first written constitution in the English colonies and one of several early examples of self-government in American history.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
Besides a clause allowing Congress to revisit the topic of the slave trade in 1808, this infamous fraction is the only other mention of slavery in the Constitution.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
400
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are credited for kickstarting the American women's rights movement at this convention (provide the full name AND year).
What is the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
400
This Reconstruction-era organization helped the formerly enslaved adjust to civilian life by providing access to housing, education, and job training.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
500
The location of these earthen mounds.
What is Cahokia?
500
This colonial region was known for being more ethnically diverse and religiously tolerant.
What are the middle colonies?
500
While these unpopular laws are a significant reason John Adams lost re-election in 1800, one of them is still used by the U.S. government today for immigration enforcment.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
This strange-sounding nickname for slavery was used by southerners to downplay the immorality of slavery.
What is the "peculiar institution?"
500
The Illinois Democrat known for proposing the Kansas-Nebraska act and for his debates with future president Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Stephen Douglas?