Colonial America
This colony, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
This 1765 act required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
He was the first U.S. President.
Who is George Washington?
This 1852 novel showed the horrors of slavery and increased sectional tensions.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
He was President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This economic system said colonies existed to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This incident occurred on March 5, 1770, and was used as Patriot propaganda.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1803 case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This idea let people in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This 1863 speech by Abraham Lincoln reframed the war as a fight for equality.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia exposed tensions between frontier farmers and the colonial elite.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet urging independence.
What is "Common Sense"?
The U.S. bought this territory from France for $15 million in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision said enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These laws restricted colonial trade to only England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This 1781 battle effectively ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1820 compromise maintained the slave/free state balance and banned slavery north of the 36°30′ line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Violent conflicts in Kansas over slavery were known as this phrase.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This Reconstruction plan divided the South into military districts.
What is Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction?
This religious revival of the 1730s-40s emphasized emotion and individual spiritual experience.
What was the First Great Awakening?
This treaty ended the war and recognized U.S. independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This 1823 doctrine warned Europe not to intervene in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
His 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry attempted to start a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
This 1877 political deal ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?