Colonial
What was the first colony?
Jamestown
What was the name of the general that lead the United States in the Revolutionary War?
George Washington.
What was the name of the event in which Native Americans were forced to migrate away from their homeland?
Trail of Tears.
Who was the majority owner of Standard Oil Co.?
John D. Rockefeller.
1939-1945
WWII
What do you call a crop grown for selling?
Cash crop.
What government document was drafted on July 4, 1776?
The Declaration of Independence.
What was another term for anti-federalists? (coined by Thomas Jefferson)
Democratic-Republicans
Which group of laws created in the South enabled the segregation of African Americans?
Jim Crow.
1964
Civil Rights Act
What is the name of the first religious revival in the United States?
The 1st Great Awakening.
What was the first (weak) constitution created for the United States?
The Articles of Confederation.
Which compromise involved drawing a line between slave states and free states?
The Missouri Compromise
What was the term for journalists who exposed corruption in big companies?
Muckrakers.
1991
End of Cold War
What was the name of the slave trade route connecting America and Africa?
The Middle Passage.
What came out of the Proclamation of 1763?
The proclamation line. Taxes of sugar and paper.
Which reform movements were the most prominent in this era? Name 3.
Abolition, suffrage, temperance, etc.
Which addition to the Monroe Doctrine stated that no one but the US could practice imperialism in the Northern Hemisphere?
The Roosevelt Corollary
1877
End of Reconstruction
What are the 13 colonies?
Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.
What was the unofficial term for the policy in which Great Britain let the colonies govern themselves?
Salutary neglect.
Which act barred the US from doing trade with any foreign nation?
The Embargo Act.
Under Teddy Roosevelt's administration, which act was enforced against big companies?
Sherman Antitrust Act.
1954