Unit 1 & 2
This was the first successful English Colony.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This 1773 event saw colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
19th-century belief that justified U.S. expansion across North America, often ignoring Native rights.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This organization was known for terrorizing black Americans, as well as eventually expanding to include Irish Catholics and Jews
What is the KKK?
This global pandemic started in 2019
What is COVID 19?
This Specific Crop made Jamestown Rich
What is Tobacco?
This compromise settled how slaves would be counted for representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
War ending with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, adding Southwest territory but fueling slavery debates.
What is the Mexican-American War?
These were the 3 main countries in the AXIS Powers alliance in WW2
What is Germany, Japan, and Italy?
This scandal led to President Nixon resigning
What is Watergate?
This man started the Colony of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
This 1777 American victory convinced France to join the Revolutionary War as an ally.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
1854 law allowing settlers to decide slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, leading to violent conflict.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the worst racial incident in the 1920s
What was the Tulsa Race Riot?
This incident was an utter failure and embarrassment to the JFK administration
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Spanish System that made the natives work for their landowners
What is the Encomienda system?
Jackson’s policy of rewarding political supporters with government jobs is known by this term.
What is the Spoils System?
1857 Supreme Court ruling that denied citizenship to African Americans and nullified Congressional bans on slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This person wrote "The Jungle," which exposed the meatpacking industry issues.
Who is Upton Sinclar?
Bill Clinton lied about this under oath, leading to him getting impeached
What is the Monica Lewinsky scandal?
This 1676 rebellion of poor farmers and indentured servants in Virginia led to them killing a bunch of Natives, due to the tensions between social classes in colonial society
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
In 1823, this U.S. policy warned European nations to refrain from further colonization or interference in the affairs of countries in the Western Hemisphere.
1867 laws that split the South into military districts and required new constitutions protecting black voting rights.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
This person was the president of the NAWSA
Who is Carrie Chapman Cott?
This event was led by college students, who went down to the deep south to encourage black people to register to vote
What is Freedom Summer?