Unit 1
This Native American alliance of six nations is considered an early model of representative government.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This 1773 event involved colonists protesting British taxation by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This purchase by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production and increased the demand for enslaved labor.
What is the cotton gin?
This term describes the migration route used by early peoples to cross from Asia into North America during the Ice Age.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
(Would also accept the Kelp Highway)
This compromise counted enslaved people as part of the population for representation purposes but as less than a full person.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This rebellion by farmers in 1786 highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
These young women worked in Massachusetts textile factories during the early 19th century, gaining economic independence but facing harsh conditions.
Who are the Lowell girls?
This agreement, signed aboard a ship in 1620, established self-governance for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These Acts, passed in 1774, were Britain’s response to the Boston Tea Party and included the closure of Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This treaty negotiated by John Jay in 1794 resolved some tensions with Britain but angered many Americans due to its perceived favoritism toward British interests.
What is the Jay Treaty?
This labor system in the South focused on producing a single crop for export and relied heavily on enslaved labor to sustain large-scale agricultural operations
What is the plantation system?
This Puritan leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony delivered the famous “City Upon a Hill” sermon, emphasizing the colony’s role as a moral example.
Who is John Winthrop?
This act of 1765 was the first direct tax imposed by Britain on the American colonies, sparking widespread protests and boycotts.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1803 treaty between the United States and France transferred control of the Louisiana Territory but excluded certain territorial claims held by Spain.
What is the Louisiana Purchase Treaty?
This group, formed by nativists in the early 19th century, sought to limit the political influence of immigrants, particularly Irish Catholics.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
Known as the Great Peacemaker, this Haudenosaunee figure is credited with helping found the Iroquois Confederacy under the Great Law of Peace.
Who is Deganawida?
This military strategy employed by colonial militias involved ambushing British troops and avoiding direct confrontations.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This rebellion occurred in response to a federal excise tax on distilled spirits and was suppressed by George Washington, demonstrating the strength of the new government under the Constitution.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This transportation innovation was the first major American railroad and helped connect inland markets with coastal cities.
What is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
This early legislative assembly in Virginia was the first representative government in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This Enlightenment philosopher’s ideas about natural rights influenced the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
This 1832 political crisis involved South Carolina's attempt to nullify federal tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Launched in 1837, this wooden paddle steamer designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel is often called the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, and proved regular steam crossings between Bristol and New York were commercially viable.
What is the SS Great Western?
This conflict between New England colonists and the Wampanoag, led by Metacom, resulted in the near-destruction of Native American power in the region.
What is King Philip’s War?
This 1775 petition, sent to King George III by the Second Continental Congress, was a final attempt to avoid war but was rejected by the British.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This rebellion, led by an enslaved preacher in 1831, was one of the deadliest slave revolts in U.S. history and led to stricter slave codes in the South.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
Established by Spain in 1565, this city became a cornerstone of the Spanish empire's Caribbean holdings, and is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the present-day U.S.
What is St. Augustine?
This 1777 battle convinced France to form an alliance with the United States during the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1832 Supreme Court decision ruled in favor of Native American tribal sovereignty but was ignored by President Andrew Jackson.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This agricultural invention, created by Cyrus McCormick, revolutionized farming by mechanizing the harvesting of crops like wheat.
What is the mechanical reaper?