Period 1
1491-1607
1491-1607
Before European contact, this crop helped support larger, more settled societies in parts of North America, especially the Southwest.
What is maize/corn?
This English colony, founded in 1607, became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This war ended in 1763 and left Britain with major debt, leading to new taxes on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War?
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This idea claimed that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This term refers to the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This cash crop shaped the economy and labor system of the Chesapeake colonies.
What is tobacco?
This phrase summarized colonial anger over taxes passed by Parliament without colonial representation.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States a large amount of land in the Southwest.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This Spanish labor system forced Native peoples to work for colonists while supposedly receiving protection and Christian instruction.
What is the encomienda system?
This region developed around Puritan religion, town life, families, and small-scale farming.
What is New England?
This document declared American independence and argued that governments should protect natural rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This religious revival helped inspire reform movements such as abolition, temperance, and women’s rights.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This proposal attempted to ban slavery in lands gained from Mexico, increasing sectional tensions.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This disease devastated Native populations because they lacked immunity to it.
This disease devastated Native populations because they lacked immunity to it.
This 1676 uprising exposed tensions between frontier settlers, wealthy planters, Native peoples, and colonial leadership in Virginia.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This "first constitution" was weak because it lacked the power to tax or regulate interstate commerce.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This 1823 foreign policy warned European powers against further colonization in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1850 law angered many Northerners because it required citizens to help return runaway enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This Spanish social hierarchy ranked people based on race, ancestry, and birthplace in the Americas.
What is the casta/caste system?
This religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s challenged traditional religious authority and emphasized emotional, personal faith.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This 1794 uprising tested the strength of the new federal government under the Constitution.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This 1848 convention marked a major moment in the women’s rights movement and produced the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This 1854 law allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska and helped lead to violence known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?