Pre 1754
This colony was founded by Roger Williams after being banished from Massachusetts Bay for his beliefs. It welcomed Baptists, Quakers, and Jews, offering a complete separation of church and state.
What is the Rhode Island colony?
This 1898 conflict began after the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor and resulted in the United States gaining territories such as Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Many reform movements of the early 19th century, including abolition and temperance, were influenced by this religious movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
These colonial laws in the 17th and 18th centuries defined enslaved people as property, restricted their movement, and denied them legal rights.
What are slave codes?
This system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, exchanging goods, enslaved people, and raw materials during the colonial period.
What is the triangular trade? (Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)
This religious revival created a distinct regional identity in the colonies in the early to mid-18th century.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This 1789 revolution in Europe inspired debates in the United States between supporters like Thomas Jefferson and critics such as Alexander Hamilton.
What is the French Revolution?
This novel, written during the Gilded Age by Upton Sinclair, exposed horrific conditions in the meatpacking industry and helped spur reforms like the Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is The Jungle?
This collection of domestic programs helped stimulate the economy and decrease national poverty levels in the 1960s, creating economic and social reform that still exists today.
What is the Great Society?
Invented by Robert Fulton in 1807, this technology allowed for faster upstream river travel, transforming commerce in the United States.
What is the steamboat?
This economic system guided European colonial policy and held that colonies existed primarily to supply raw materials and markets for the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
This U.S. foreign policy strategy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world during the Cold War.
What is the Policy of Containment?
What religion did British colonists flee England to avoid?
Who is the Church of England? (Anglicanism)
This post-American Civil War era policy focused on rebuilding the South, integrating formerly enslaved people into society, and redefining state and federal power between 1865 and 1877.
What is Reconstruction?
Finished in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, this project united the eastern and western U.S. markets, facilitated migration, and transformed trade across the continent.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This 1786-1787 uprising of Massachusetts farmers, led by Daniel Shays, protested high taxes and economic injustices, exposing weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This event in 1989 marked the collapse of Soviet-led communism in Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This reformer founded Hull House in 1889 to provide services to immigrants and the urban poor as part of Progressive Era social reform.
Who is Jane Addams?
Passed in 1830 under President Andrew Jackson, this law authorized the relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This early-19th-century transformation of the U.S. economy involved the expansion of factories, canals, roads, and the commercialization of agriculture.
What is the Market Revolution?
This intellectual movement, primarily led by English Revolutionaries, emphasized reason, natural rights, and ideas from thinkers like John Locke and Voltaire.
What is the Enlightenment?
Announced in 1823 by James Monroe, this U.S. foreign policy warned European nations against further colonization or interference in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
After facing persecution in the Midwest, this religious group led by Brigham Young migrated to the Great Salt Lake region in 1847.
Who are the Mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)?
This 1890 federal law was created to break up monopolies and limit the power of large corporations; it was later used by presidents like Teddy Roosevelt to regulate big business.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in the 17th century, these laws restricted colonial trade so that certain goods could only be shipped to England or English colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?