EXPLORATION & EARLY SETTLEMENT
He reached the Americas in 1492 while sailing for Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This document was an early example of self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This war was fought between Britain and France for North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
This pamphlet argued for independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
America’s first national government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Secretary of the Treasury created the financial plan.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The President known for expanding democracy for white males.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The first permanent English settlement founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The Pilgrims belonged to this religious group.
Who were Separatists?
This line banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
The battle that brought France into the war on America’s side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
A major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is no power to tax?
This rebellion protested a tax on whiskey.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The system of rewarding supporters with jobs.
What is the spoils system?
This group had proven contact with North America before Columbus.
Who were the Vikings?
This colony was founded by Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This tax led to the famous Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
The winter encampment where Washington’s army suffered greatly.
What is Valley Forge?
This rebellion showed the need for a stronger government.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
British practice of forcing sailors into service.
What is impressment?
Jackson’s informal group of advisors.
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
This leader enforced the rule “You don’t work, you don’t eat.”
Who is John Smith?
This governor helped establish the first Thanksgiving.
Who is William Bradford?
This group organized resistance and spread information.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
This officer trained American troops during the war.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
The meeting held to fix the Articles.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The act that ended U.S. trade with Europe.
What is the Embargo Act?
The forced relocation of the Cherokee people.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The winter of 1609–1610 that nearly destroyed Jamestown.
What is the Starving Time?
This system was used by the Dutch to colonize New Netherland.
What is the patroon system?
This act required colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This naval hero said, “I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who is John Paul Jones?
This man is known as the Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
This fort inspired the Star-Spangled Banner.
What is Fort McHenry?
The tariff hated by the South in 1828.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
This was the first representative government in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This crop became the economic backbone of Virginia.
What is tobacco?
The date of the Boston Massacre.
What is March 5, 1770?
This general led American forces in the South.
Who is Nathanael Greene?
The compromise creating a two-house legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
One cause of the War of 1812.
What is impressment or trade restrictions?
The idea that states could reject federal laws.
What is nullification?
The oldest permanent European settlement in the United States.
What is St. Augustine?
This colony was settled by debtors.
What is Georgia?
These laws were passed to punish Boston after the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This foreign ally helped at Yorktown.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
The compromise counting enslaved people as 3/5.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
One result of the War of 1812.
What is increased nationalism?
The state that nullified the tariff of 1832.
What is South Carolina?
These companies provided financial support for colonization.
What are joint stock companies?
The first written constitution in America.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
These two battles marked the start of the Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The battle that ended the American Revolution.
What is Yorktown?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This document warned Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Jackson’s Vice President and states’ rights leader.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
Name one reason the English came to America.
What is religious freedom / land / profit / adventure?
This man founded Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
One of the midnight riders who warned colonial militia.
Who is Paul Revere?
This treaty officially ended the war in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This system is used to elect the President.
What is the Electoral College?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The banks that held federal money after the National Bank closed.
What are pet banks?
These were major hardships faced by early colonists.
What are disease, lack of food, or Indian attacks?
This colony was originally divided into East and West.
What is New Jersey?
The date the War for Independence began.
What is April 19, 1775?
The date the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
The first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This case said states cannot interfere with federal actions.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
The President who died one month into office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?