Exploration & Early Contacts
The study of how historians write and interpret the past.
What is historiography?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The North American theater of the global Seven Years’ War is commonly called this.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was the first national governing document creating a weak central government after the Revolution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Andrew Jackson’s opponent in the Election of 1828.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
The 15th‑century event (fall of this city in 1453) that helped motivate Europeans to seek new trade routes to Asia.
What is the fall of Constantinople?
The 1620 agreement made by Pilgrims to establish self‑government aboard their ship.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The British leader who mobilized resources and used naval power to help win the war in North America.
Who is William Pitt?
The 1787 meeting in Philadelphia that produced the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The informal group of Jackson’s close advisers outside his official Cabinet.
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
This exchange involved plants, animals, people, and diseases between Old and New Worlds after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first representative assembly in the English colonies, established in Virginia.
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What is the House of Burgesses?
The 1759 battle that helped secure British control of Canada.
What is the Battle of Quebec?
The compromise that created a bicameral legislature with a population‑based House and an equal‑representation Senate.
What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)?
The practice of replacing government officials with political supporters, associated with Jackson.
What is the spoils system?
The ship type, plus the compass and astrolabe, that improved long‑distance European navigation in the Age of Exploration.
What is the caravel?
This early Connecticut document is considered one of the first written constitutions in America.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The 1763 British decree that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The agreement that counted enslaved persons as three‑fifths of a person for representation and taxation.
What is the Three‑Fifths Compromise?
The 1830 law authorizing removal of Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The Norse explorer associated with reaching North America (Vinland) about AD 1000.
Who is Leif Ericson?
This 18th‑century religious movement emphasized personal conversion and challenged established churches.
What is the Great Awakening?
The 1777 American victory that convinced France to ally with the United States.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution, added to protect individual liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The forced removal of the Cherokee that resulted in many deaths during the relocation to Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?