This crop became the main staple of many Native American tribes.
What is corn(maize)?
This rebellion in Virginia resulted in the increase in black slavery and decrease in indentured servitude.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This 1763 British policy, issued after the French and Indian War, attempted to stabilize relations with Native Americans by limiting colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is Louisiana Purchase
This belief was the incorporating new territory sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny?
This type of farming involved planting corn, beans and squash all together.
What is Three Sister Farming?
The first permanent English settlement was founded here in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This war ended with Britain defeating France in North America.
What is French and Indian War
This invention greatly increased cotton production.
What is Cotton Gin
This amendment abolished slavery.
Who is 13th Amendment?
This exchange introduced horses to the Americas and potatoes to Europe.
What is Columbian Exchange
This trial became famous for accusations of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
This 1787 compromise created a bicameral legislature, balancing representation between large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
This convention in 1848 demanded greater rights for women.
What is Seneca Falls Convention
These laws in the South restricted the rights of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
What is Black Codes
This system forced Native Americans to work for Spanish settlers.
What is Encomienda System
This cash crop saved the Virginia colony.
What is Tobacco
This 1794 uprising in Pennsylvania challenged a federal excise tax and tested the authority of the new national government.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This organization sought to make alcohol illegal. It had a very large female membership base.
What is the American Temperance Union?
This presidential plan sought a quick reunion after the Civil War.
What is Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan (10% Plan)
This was a form of economic nationalism that sought to increase the prosperity and power of the mother nation through restrictive trade practices. Its goal was to increase the supply of a state's gold and silver with exports rather than to deplete it through imports.
What is mercantilism?
This system brought many poor Europeans to the colonies in exchange for several years of labor.
What is indentured servitude
This document created America's first national government.
What are the Articles of Confederation
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
What is the Indian Removal Act? (Trail of Tears)
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while drawing the 36°30′ line.
What is the Missouri Compromise