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100
9,000 years ago Native Americans domesticated the wild grass teosinte into which crop
Maize (Corn)
100
Don't commit a capital offense--1692 trials took place in the settlement of Salem in this colony
Massachussets Bay Colony
100
Starting in 1765, this group were extremist and wanted Liberty or Death
Who were the Sons (and Daughters) of Liberty
100
This 1803 court case established Judicial Review in the USA
What was Marbury V Maddison
100
Through this system, planters broke up their estates into small units and established on each unit a black or poor white family as tenants.
Sharecropping
200
What is the name of the native group in close proximity to James town?
The Powhatan
200
Founded in 1732 by James Oglethorpe, this Southern colony was created to provide a fresh start for England’s indebted poor and to serve, initially banned slavery and large landholdings, although both policies were later reversed.
What is Georgia
200
The Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver were ransacked, losing 342 barrels of a namesake substance, in this 1773 event
The Boston Tea Party
200
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
American System
200
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
What is the Compromise of 1850
300
The largest of the Mesoamerican cultures, this civilization in modern-day Peru was at one time led by Pachacuti
The Incas
300
From Jamestown to the end of the 7 years war, this was a time period in which England did not enforce the colonial laws
What is Salutary Neglect
300
On which day was America founded?
July 4, 1776
300
This was the name for James Monroe's presidency, and led the nation to a great sense of nationalism
What was the Era of Good Feelings
300
a nativist political party and movement in the United States who believed immigrants were corrupting Northern cities
Know Nothing Party
400
This image is a relic of what eastern woodland city
Cahokia
400
Landlords called patroons dominated the sociopolitics in this colony, the largest Dutch presence in the New World
hat is New Netherland (or New Amsterdam)?
400
This treaty formally ended the Revolutionary war, resulting in American independence
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)
400
What foreign Policy statement was made by the US in 1823 stating no other nation could form a new colony in the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
400
a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854
Gasden Purchase
500
The treaty that the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal used to split up South America
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas
500
This man is credited for the First Great Awakening and for the start of the new light preaching style
Who was George Whitfield
500
Taxes imposed in 1767 on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass & tea.
The Townshend Acts
500
President James K. Polk helped provoke the Mexican–American War by sending U.S. troops into disputed territory after claiming the U.S.–Mexico border extended south from this river to the Rio Grande.
Hint: 
Nueces River
500
A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used as a slur by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.
Scalawags
600
Roanoke, the first British colony (which disappeared) was located in what current day state
North Carolina
600
A 1676 rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon started in the backcountry and marched east to Jamestown, culminating in the burning of this organization's meeting house
The House of Burgesses
600
This leader of the Albany Congress revered the Iroquois and was present at both Continental Congresses; I guess lightning does strike in the same place twice!
Benjamin Franklin
600
Early public school advocate in MA whose reform ideas included better teacher training, updated curriculum, and a longer school term
Horace Mann
600
The reason the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) dressed in white hoods.
They claim to be the ghosts of Confederate soldiers,