Period 1
This country colonized what is today the American Southwest.
What is Spain?
This religious group of English dissenters settled in modern day Boston.
Who are the Puritans?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine convinced many colonists of the need for independence.
What is Common Sense?
This was a revival of religious belief and practice in the early 1800s.
This was the name of the land America took after the Mexican War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This region was home to the Mound Builders and settled farming.
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
These poor Englishmen and women agreed to work for a period of time in exchange for their passage to America.
Who were indentured servants?
These pro-ratification documents were written anonymously in New York.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This economic plan by Henry Clay was pro-industry, pro-bank, and pro-infrastructure.
What was the American System?
This piece of legislation admitted California as a free state, but put a fugitive slave law into place.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This system's key characteristic was perpetual bondage.
chattel slavery
This economic system was designed to increase gold reserves in the mother country by regulating colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
This philosophy elevated women to the role of "keepers of the national conscience."
republican motherhood
This Supreme Court Case established the precedent of judicial review.
What was Marbury v. Madison?
This was Abraham Lincoln's famous statement of American values and principles.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
This region was known for bison hunting and nomadic tribes.
What is the Great Plains?
This region witnessed a massive Indian rebellion against Spanish control in the 1600s.
What is the Southwest?
This land law passed under the Articles of Confederation banned slavery in the Northwest Territory.
Northwest Ordinance
The Missouri Compromise established this line as the barrier to the expansion of slavery?
What is 36' 30"?
This term describes American's distrust and fear of immigrants.
Nativism
This system led to Native American labor on Spanish farms and mines.
What is the encomienda system?
This war was a failed Indian revolt in New England in the 1670s.
What is King Philip's War?
This Federalist politician believed that the president should serve for a life term.
Alexander Hamilton
This political party was established largely in opposition to Andrew Jackson's policies.
What is the Whig Party?
This group pushed for dramatic political and racial reforms during Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?