Period 1
What famous explorer discovered the New World of the Americas on board his ship called the Santa Maria?
Who is Christopher Columbus
An uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part
What is Bacon's Rebellion
The head commander of the Continental army
Who is George Washington
What president implemented the Indian Removal Act in 1830?
Who is Andrew Jackson
What book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped strengthen abolitionism in the North?
Who established the Encomienda system and who did it oppress?
Who are the Spanish and Native Americans
Name of the route in which slaves arrived from Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage
The initial draft of the government written after the revolutionary war
What are the Article of Confederation
What act in 1807 ended all of America’s importation and exportation?
What is the Embargo Act
Where was the capital of the Confederacy?
What is Richmond, Virginia
What are the staple crops of three sisters farming?
What are Corn, beans, and squash
Complete the Quote:
"We shall be as a ______, the eyes of all people are upon us."
- John Winthrop
What is "City upon a hill"
Thomas Paine’s paper on revolutionary ideas of separation from Britain
What is Common Sense
What document cut off colonization in the Western hemisphere of the United States from European nations?
What is the Monroe Doctrine
Which political group would most likely have supported secession from the United States after the 1860 presidential election?
Who are Southern Democrats
What are 5 things that came from the Old World in the Columbian Exchange
What are disease, livestock (pigs, cattle, horses, sheep), grains, onion, sugar cane, fruits (bananas, peaches, pears, grapes), turnips, coffee beans and olives.
This assembly was the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish in the soil of America.
This British act restricted colonial expansion past the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763
What was the name of the court case opposed by president Jackson that stated the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land
What is Worcester v Georgia
Which state was the first to secede?
What is South Carolina
What was the name of the treaty signed between Spain and Portugal that decided how Christopher Columbus’s discoveries of the new world would be divided?
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas
These are the three main types of British colonies.
What is proprietorship, royal, and corporate
This treaty between America and Spain defined the border between the US and Spanish Florida, and established navigation rights to America along the Mississippi river
What is Pinckney's Treaty
Give one reason as to why Andrew Jackson “killed the bank”
What is he believed the bank favored the wealthy, The bank charter gave it unrealistic/monopolistic market power, Lack of funding for expansion into the unsettled Western territories
Who was the famous female nurse during the Civil War (also founded the Red Cross?)
Who is Clara Burton