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This religious group believed they had to set an example for the rest of the world in the colonies, becoming a “city on a hill.”
Who are the Puritans?
This invention, introduced to the South in 1793, contributed to an increase in the use of slave labor?
What is the cotton gin?
Thomas Jefferson had to weigh his ideal future for America against his concerns about big government in order to make this 1803 decision that more than doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This pamphlet published in early 1776 rejected monarchy and greatly influenced revolutionary opinions throughout the colonies.
What is Common Sense?
This labor system emerged in the South during Reconstruction; under this system, planters divided their plantations into small farms that freedmen rented, paying with the fruits of their labor.
What is sharecropping?
This group of people opposed the development of a strong national government after the American Revolution.
Who are anti-federalists?
This staple food spread from the Southwest throughout what is now the United States during the pre-Columbian era.
What is maize or corn?
This gathering of delegates in Virginia was the first representative government in the American colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This export led the South to believe they could win the Civil War by using it to recruit international allies.
What is cotton?
Prior to railroads, these transportation developments helped to decrease shipping times and costs and fostered American manufacturing. (Multiple correct answers; name one.)
Roads, steamboats, canals
This transatlantic exchange of goods, people, and ideas was named after an influential European explorer.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These social movements, sparked in part by religious revivals, brought women to social activism in large numbers. (Multiple correct answers, name one.)
Temperance, abolition, movement against Indian Removal in Georgia.
Henry Clay composed this, allowing the balance of free and slave states to remain equal in 1820?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This eighteenth-century philosophical movement emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines and traditions.
What is the Enlightenment?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the concept of judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
This uprising was led by farmers who were angry at the new taxation policies in Massachusetts after the Revolutionary War.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
In addition to brewing their own substitutes for tea from plants they could grow themselves, Daughters of Liberty and other women sympathetic to the American revolutionary cause crafted this necessity at home rather than buying it from the British.
cloth/clothing
This uprising of Native American tribes in 1763 near modern-day Detroit heightened Britain’s determination to create a boundary between America and Native Americans and led to the proclamation of 1763.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
This religious revival in the 1820s and 1830s promised access to salvation and proved to be a major impetus for reform movements of the era, inspiring efforts to combat drinking, sexual sin, and slavery.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This practice of manufacturing and then assembling interchangeable parts spread quickly across American industries and allowed American manufacturers to employ unskilled workers at low wages.
What is the American system of manufacturing?
This president is widely regarded as having benefitted from so-called "universal white male suffrage", or the expansion of voting rights to white men who didn't own land; however, he was at first denied the presidency in the "corrupt bargain" of 1824.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This February 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War; under its terms Mexico gave up all claims to Texas north of the Rio Grande and ceded New Mexico and California to the United states, while America gave Mexico $15 million.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The Seven Years' War was fought over land in this region, where settlers were subsequently forbidden to settle by the Proclamation of 1763.
the Ohio River Valley/just west of the Appalachian Mountains
This mindset allowed white men to justify their treatment of other races by arguing that other races needed protection, like children.
What is the paternalism?
These laws benefited English merchants, shippers, and seamen by forcing the American colonies to trade exclusively with British ports and British ships.
What are the Navigation Acts?