New World or Bust
This is the exchange of goods and ideas between the Old World and the New World.
What is the The Colombian Exchange?
This is the main reason why colonists wanted a war with Britain and became a rallying cry for independence.
What is no taxation without representation?
As President, George Washington personally led US troops to stop this rebellion in Pennsylvania.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This was the reform movement to end slavery.
What is Abolition movement?
Who won the election of 1860?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This colonial region housed a famous prison colony and buffer between the English and Spanish New Worlds.
What is the Georgia colony?
This act prompted a world famous economic boycott (Hint: Colonists dressing up as Natives and throwing this off the ship)
What is the Tea Act?
The first war that the US fought as a United country after the American Revolution
What is the War of 1812?
The Act that was a part of the Missouri Compromise of 1850 that allowed runaway slaves to be captured in the North and returned to their enslavers
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not American citizens; hence, they could not sue
What is Dred Scott?
The system that Great Britian used to govern the colonies before they switched to Mercantilism. "_______ neglect."
What is Salutary Neglect?
The French joined America at this battle that was the turning point of the war.
What is Saratoga?
Explorers that were on an expedition to explore the newly bought US territory and to see the Pacific Ocean?
Who is Lewis and Clark?
Violence that occurred as result of the Kansas Nebraska Act, known as “Tragic Prelude” to the American Civil War
What is Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown attempted to start a slave rebellion and assembled a team to attack a weapon’s arsenal
What is the Harper's Ferry Raid?
This war that led to Great Britain taxing the colonists to pay for it.
What is the French and Indian War?
This famous document written mostly by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This doubled the size of the US in 1803.
What is the LA Purchase?
This invention by Eli Whitney led to easier mass production of cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
The first state to secede the Union
What is South Carolina?
This forced the colonists to stay East of the Appalachian Mountains and avoid conflicts with Natives?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This was the first governing document of the new American country.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The city that becomes known as the "Gateway to the West"
What is St. Louis?
Forced displacement of thousands of Native Americans from the Eastern part of the United States.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This is where the first shots of the American Civil War were
What is Fort Sumter?