Unit 1
All that was left when the colonists came back to Roanoke from Great Britain
Lost Colony
Part of the Triangular Trade involved in transporting slaves from Africa to the colonies.
What is the Middle Passage?
First president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
Inventor of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Civil War began at...
What is Fort Sumter?
Motivation for colonization (3 Gs)
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Large piece of territory that doubled the size of the United States. Lewis and Clark were sent to explore this area.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Great Britain?
Name of the Northern strategy to win the war.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Portugal, Spain, France, and Great Britain
What are the Superpowers of the time?
Group of "thugs" in Boston that were famous for inciting rebellion and continuously fought against taxation and abuse of the British government.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
The two leading political parties in the early 1800s
Who are the Democrat-Republicans and Federalists?
Jackson removed his political opponents from office and replaced him with his friends.
What is the spoils system?
Southern states began seceding from the Union shortly after which event?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
The ancient people of North American were most changed by
What is agriculture?
Kings response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
In his Farewell address, what two things did George Washington warn us about?
What is political parties and permanent foreign alliances?
Modern day example of the Temperance Movement.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Name 4 leaders of the Antebellum Reform Movements.
Harriet Tubman, Frederik Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dorthea Dix, Henry D. Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Charles Finney
This document was signed on board of the ship that would eventually land in Plymouth. It established a government that would help organize and benefit the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The turning point of the Revolutionary War; convinced the French to help the Continental Army.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect union, establish ____________, insure ____________ Tranquility, provide for the common ____________, promote the general ____________, and secure the Blessings of ____________ to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What is justice, domestic, welfare, and liberty?
List all 6 antebellum reform movements.
What are the factory & workplace, prison & asylum, temperance, women's rights, education, and abolition?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for ______ in Kansas and Nebraska, as well as a repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
What is popular sovereignty?