Indigenous Societies & Early Contact
This crop transformed many Native societies in the American Southwest into settled agricultural communities.
What is maize (corn)?
This New England agreement established a basic form of self-government aboard a ship in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1765 act taxed paper goods and sparked the rallying cry “no taxation without representation.”
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This exchange of animals, plants, and diseases reshaped both hemispheres after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This region’s economy centered on staple crops like tobacco and relied heavily on indentured servitude.
What is the Chesapeake region?
This internal improvement connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, transforming trade.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This internal improvement connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, transforming trade.
What is the Erie Canal?
This political party, formed in the 1850s, opposed the expansion of slavery and drew significant support from former Whigs and Free-Soilers.
What is the Republican Party?
This Pueblo uprising in 1680 successfully expelled the Spanish from New Mexico for over a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt (Pope’s Rebellion)?
This 17th-century colonial rebellion in Virginia exposed tensions between frontier settlers and elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature with a Senate and House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)?
This 1828 congressional tariff was so controversial in the South that it sparked the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This Spanish labor system required Indigenous people to provide tribute and labor in exchange for supposed protection and Christian instruction.
What is the encomienda system?
This 1692 event reflected tensions over religion, social change, and gender roles in Massachusetts.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This series of anonymously written essays defended ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
This political party emerged in the 1830s in opposition to Andrew Jackson’s Democrats.
Who are the Whigs?
This event in 1859 heightened sectional tensions when an abolitionist attempted to seize a federal arsenal.
What is John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry?
This Indigenous confederacy in the Northeast used a complex political alliance system that influenced later American political ideas.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This 18th-century movement emphasized emotional religious experiences, challenged traditional authority, and helped unify the colonies through shared evangelical ideas.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This 1794 uprising tested federal authority under Washington’s presidency.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This ideal held that women should guide family morality and republican values in the home.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This plan during Reconstruction divided the South into five military districts and required new state constitutions.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?