Unit 1: Exploration & colonization
"What European power established the first permanent settlement in North America in 1565?"
Who are the Spanish?
"The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean was known as this."
What is the Middle Passage?
"This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued for independence from Britain."
What is "Common Sense"
"Alexander Hamilton’s financial plan included creating this controversial institution."
What is the Bank of the United States?
This Founding Father once tried to propose daylight saving time to conserve candles.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
"What was the primary goal of the Spanish mission system?"
What is religious conversion of Native Americans?
This colonial religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s emphasized emotional preaching and individual connections to God.
The First Great Awakening
"The Declaration of Independence was primarily written by this man."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
"The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S. under this president."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This vice president of the United States once killed a Founding Father in a duel.
Aaron Burr
"This exchange of goods, diseases, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds began in 1492."
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1676 conflict in Virginia, led by a discontented farmer, revealed tensions between poor settlers and colonial elites.
Bacon's Rebellion
"The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are called this."
What is the Bill of Rights?
This 1832 crisis, sparked by South Carolina's refusal to enforce a federal tariff, tested the authority of the federal government.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
In 1822, this U.S. president was given a giant block of cheese, weighing over 1,000 pounds, as a gift.
Thomas Jefferson
"What labor system forced Native Americans to work on Spanish plantations?"
What is the encomienda system?
"This law, passed in 1787, banned slavery in the Northwest Territory."
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
"This rebellion in 1786 highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation."
What is Shay's Rebellion
"This doctrine warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere in 1823."
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This president's pet alligator reportedly lived in a White House bathtub during his administration.
John Quincy Adams
"This Native American confederacy resisted European expansion in the Northeast."
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The Dutch colony of New Netherland was seized by the British in 1664 and renamed this.
New York
"This event showed the strength of the new Constitution when George Washington led troops to suppress it."
What is the Whiskey Rebellion
"This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review."
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The U.S. government once tested this animal in the 1940s as a potential delivery system for bombs.
Bats