Potpourri
This 1492 voyage marked the beginning of European colonization of the Americas and triggered the Columbian Exchange.
What is Columbus’s journey?
The first battles of the Revolutionary War began here in April 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This election created the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties in U.S. history.
What is the Election of 1800?
He drafted the Declaration of Independence and purchased the Louisiana Territory but owned 600 enslaved people.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1763 law closed settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and angered colonists.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
This 1777 American victory convinced France to formally support the colonies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
In the Election of 1800, these two candidates tied with 73 electoral votes, sending the vote to the House of Representatives.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr?
This influential Patriot negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1783, while his own son remained a Loyalist.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This 1823 doctrine warned European powers not to interfere with nations in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1807 law attempted to force Britain and France to respect American neutrality but instead caused U.S. exports to drop by 80%.
What is the Embargo Act?
Early in the War of 1812, Isaac Brock and Indigenous allies captured this fort without major fighting.
What is Fort Detroit?
This election resulted in a decisive victory for Thomas Jefferson over Federalist Charles Pinckney.
What is the Election of 1804?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice established judicial review and strengthened federal authority.
Who is John Marshall?
This early territorial conflict over the Ohio Valley sparked the French and Indian War in 1754.
What is the Struggle for the Ohio Valley?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established judicial review under Chief Justice John Marshall.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
In 1813, the U.S. attacked this city (modern Toronto), burning government buildings and prompting British retaliation.
What is the Burning of York?
This President, elected in 1856, is widely considered the worst in U.S. history for failing to act as the Civil War approached.
Who is James Buchanan?
This Indigenous leader formed an alliance with the British and urged rejection of U.S. treaties and culture.
Who is Tecumseh?
This 1830 law forced Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi to relocate west, resulting in mass suffering and death.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1705 Virginia law declared that non-Christian imported servants would be slaves treated as “real estate,” formalizing racial slavery.
What is the codification of racial slavery?
In 1814, the British retaliated for York by burning this American city, including the Presidential Mansion.
What is the burning of Washington?
This Constitutional system selects the President through state-chosen electors rather than a direct popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
This African man gained his freedom, owned land and servants, and after his death, Virginia seized his land because he was deemed “an alien.”
Who is Anthony Johnson?
This treaty ended the War of 1812 and restored pre-war borders between the U.S. and Britain.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?