Early America (1491–1754)
This 1607 settlement became the first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
The pamphlet by Thomas Paine that called for independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
The belief that Americans had a divine right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The economic theory that colonies exist to benefit the mother country by providing raw materials and markets.
What is mercantilism?
The compromise that resulted in a bicameral legislature with proportional and equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise? (Connecticut Plan)
The 1823 doctrine that warned European nations against colonization in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first representative government in colonial America, established in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The principle that government power comes from the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
The 1830 law that led to the forced relocation of Native Americans.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The 1863 speech by Abraham Lincoln that emphasized preserving the Union.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The African American abolitionist who wrote "The North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The system of labor used in the Chesapeake colonies where workers agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America.
What is indentured servitude?
The plan proposed by James Madison that favored representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The campaign for limiting alcohol consumption during the 19th century.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The constitutional amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The founder of the Sons of Liberty and organizer of the Boston Tea Party.
Who is Samuel Adams?
The religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s that emphasized emotional sermons and piety.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The series of essays written to support the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The group of writers and thinkers who emphasized individualism and self-reliance.
Who are the Transcendentalists?
The laws passed in the South after the Civil War to restrict the freedoms of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
The advocate for women’s rights and author of the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The agreement signed by the Pilgrims establishing self-government in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This event in 1787 demonstrated the need for a stronger central government than the Articles of Confederation could provide.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The 1820 agreement that temporarily resolved the issue of slavery in new territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The system of farming that kept many African Americans economically dependent after slavery.
What is sharecropping?
The first Secretary of the Treasury who supported a national bank.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This 1739 event was the largest slave uprising in the British colonies before the American Revolution.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
The law that created the process for admitting new states to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The economic system proposed by Henry Clay to promote industry and infrastructure.
What is the American System?
The term for Southern whites who supported Reconstruction policies.
Who are Scalawags?
The general who led Union forces to victory in the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?