Period 1
The year 1607.
Founding of Jamestown.
The man who led a colonial uprising in Virginia in 1676 with angry farmers and indentured servants against Governor William Berkeley's "leniency" towards Native Americans and lack of protection for frontier settlers.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
The second president of the US and a Federalist, passed the Alien and Sedition acts.
Who is John Adams?
The forced displacement and relocation of thousands of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the Southeastern US to Indian territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The 19th century belief that is America's God-given right to expand its territory.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, people, and technologies between the Americas and Europe/Africa.
What is the Columbian exchange?
The large-scale uprising by a specific group of indigenous people against Spanish colonizers in 1680.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
The decree issued by King George the second after the French and Indian war which prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
A military conflict fought between the US and Great Britain, primarily stemming from British violations of American wartime rights.
What is the War of 1812?
The federal law passed in 1854 that required citizens across the US to assist in capturing and returning runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The group of English Protestants who aimed to "purify" the Church.
What is Puritans?
The labor system where individuals agree to work for a set period of time in exchange for passage to the Americas.
What is indentured servitude?
The tax passed by the British Parliament in 1765 to pay taxes on paper goods, documents, and playing cards. First direct tax on colonies from Parliament.
What is the Stamp Act?
Considered the "Father of the Constitution" and later served as the fourth US president, also Federalist.
Who is James Madison?
The conflict between white-American settlers in Texas and the Mexican government from 1835 to 1836, resulted in Texas gaining independence from Mexico.
What is the Texas Revolution?
The agricultural products primarily for sale and market profit, they have heavy demand.
What is Cash Crops?
The main form of slavery in the American colonies, enslaved people considered personal property with no legal rights.
What is Chattel Slavery?
The British policy of lack of enforcement of colonial taxes.
What is Salutary Neglect?
A period in American history roughly from 1815 to 1825, after the war of 1812 marked by a sense of national unity and political harmony.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
The year that Bleeding Kansas happened.
What is 1854?
The year Columbus lands in the "New World", start of the Age of Exploration.
What is 1492?
The series of laws passed by the British Parliament in the 17th century that strictly regulated colonial trade to England only.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The early political party that opposed the creation of a strong central government.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
The 7th US president, known for his populist style, strong executive power, controversial policies, and disregard to checks and balances.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The proposed amendment introduced by a congressman in 1846 that aimed to ban slavery in any new territory from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?