A Whole New World
1492-1607
1492-1607
The transfer of crops, livestock, disease, technology, ideas and culture between Europe and the "new world."
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This revolutionary immigrant wrote over 50 Papers "like he was running out of time" to convince America to ratify the Constitution.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The doctrine of this man warned European nations against further North American settlement.
Who is Monroe?
This 1898 conflict was a U.S. victory and ended with America's rights to Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This population "explosion" began after the end of World War II.
What is the Baby Boom?
The first Spanish settlement in the Americas.
What is St. Augustine?
The Great Compromise of 1787 united elements of these two plans.
What is the Virginia and New Jersey plans?
The fate of westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
An 1890 government act that stemmed from America's distrust of monopolies.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
The United States entered World War II directly after this Pacific attack.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This gave Spanish settlers the "right" to exploit Native Americans for agriculture and mine labor.
What is the encomienda system?
The Intolerable Acts led to a "party" named for a popular English beverage and colonial port city.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
President Jefferson doubled the size of the United States with this "deal of the century" in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
1896 court case based on a railroad car incident that was later overturned to prohibited segregated transportation amongst other things.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This "hush-hush" policy was passed by President Clinton to prevent banning homosexuals from the military.
What is "Don't Ask Don't Tell?"
The most significant cause of globalization in the 16th and 17th century.
What is (European) exploration?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet that doubles as a a type of insight.
What is Common Sense?
This 19th century "ism" was legally achieved with the 13th amendment to the Constitution.
What is abolitionism?
The government act of 1887 that was an attempt to regulate discrimination of railroad fees and the uninhibited growth of monopolies.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This 1950s "ism" promulgated by a Republican senator and a widespread fear of communism.
What is McCarthyism?
A person granted passage to the Americas in exchange for an agreement to work.
What is an indentured servant?
This "house" was the a representative assembly in Virginia and the first in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The New York meeting that saw the Declaration of Sentiments to assert the equality of men and women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This pact, named for the American and Frenchman who negotiated it, was an effort to preserve peace and isolation in a period of impending war.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Controversial American involvement in the Middle East began with the terrorism and Gulf War in 1991; now this current controversy surrounds a middle eastern civil war.
What is the Syrian Refugee Crisis?