Early America
This cash crop became the foundation of Virginia’s economy and saved Jamestown from collapse.
Tobacco
Passed in 1767, these taxes placed duties on items like glass, paper, paint, and tea.
Townshend Acts
This 1803 purchase, made by Jefferson, doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
Completed in 1825, this canal linked the Great Lakes to New York City and boosted trade.
Erie Canal
He reportedly chopped down a cherry tree as a child...a story used to illustrate honesty.
George Washington
Founded by Puritans, this New England colony was created as a “city upon a hill.”
Massachusetts Bay
This boundary line, drawn after the French and Indian War, banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachians.
Proclamation Line of 1763
This president’s administration is called the “Era of Good Feelings” because of temporary political unity.
James Monroe
By 1820, this cash crop had become the South’s most profitable and most tied to slavery.
Cotton
This president was the first to ride in an airplane while in office.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This early labor system, replaced over time by enslaved labor, brought many poor Europeans to the Chesapeake.
Indentured servitude
This 1773 law, often misunderstood, gave one company a monopoly on selling tea in the colonies.
Tea Act
This compromise temporarily balanced free and slave states in the Senate and delayed sectional conflict.
Missouri Compromise
This man-made road, begun in 1811, connected Cumberland, Maryland, to the Ohio River and helped western migration.
National Road
This president had a library of over 20,000 books that later became the foundation of the Library of Congress.
Thomas Jefferson
This 1675–1676 conflict devastated Native populations in New England and ended major organized Native resistance there.
King Phillip's War
This 1774 meeting of colonial delegates created a unified response to British policies and called for a boycott.
First Continental Congress
This agreement with Britain in 1814 ended fighting after the War of 1812 but did not settle trade issues.
Treaty of Ghent
This 1795 treaty with Native Americans opened Ohio Territory to settlers after conflict in the Northwest.
Treaty of Greenville
This president reportedly had a pet alligator that lived in the White House bathroom.
John Quincy Adams
Known as the most diverse region, these colonies attracted settlers with religious tolerance and fertile land.
Middle Colonies
This event in 1770, in which British soldiers fired on colonists, was used as propaganda to unite colonists against Britain.
Boston Massacre
This 1819 proposal called for banning the further importation of enslaved people into Missouri and gradually emancipating children of enslaved parents.
Tallmadge Amendment
This policy of the early 1800s, associated with Henry Clay, promoted tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements to unify the economy.
The American System
This president reportedly served hot chocolate to guests at the White House before it was common in America.
Thomas Jefferson