I'm an APUSH Wizard at Periods 1-2 (1491-1754)
Gonna Rock that Period 3 (1754-1800)
Can't Stop Won't Stop on Period 4 (1800-1848)
Earning that Five on Period 5-6 (1844-1898)
Rocking and Rolling my way through Periods 7-8 (1890-1980)
100

This group of people left England due to the corruption occurring in the church of England 

Puritans 

100

The French and Indian War caused Britain to be in ____________________, which led to increased taxation on the colonies. 

What is debt?

100

This President has a questionable reputation due to the Bank Wars, use of Executive Veto, the Spoils System and setting up forced Indian Removal.

Who is President Andrew Jackson?

100

Old immigrants came from ___________ (example of countries or region), new immigrants came from (example of countries or region)

What is Western Europe, Germany, , Ireland?

What is southern & eastern Europe, Italy, Russia, Poland ?

100

The era of McCarthyism was the widespread fear and persecution of people believed to be 

Communist 

200

This country's approach to colonization of the New World was to focus on friendly trade and relations with Native Americans 

What is France/the French?

200

This slogan reflected the reasons that the colonists resisted the Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Tea Act

What is "No taxation without representation?"

200

This event facilitated Westward Expansion as well as led Jefferson to question his belief in strict construction of the Constitution.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

200
Following the Civil War, this was established to aid former slaves in their transition to freedom. 

Freedmen's Bureau 

200

This court case declared Separate but Equal was legal.

This court case would defeat it. 100 points per name of court case.

What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?

What is Brown v. Board of Education? 

300

This period was marked by a period of religious fervor & new ideas surrounding the church

What is the First Great Awakening?

300

Name 3 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation 

  • No central leadership (executive branch)
  • Congress had no power to enforce its laws.
  • Congress had no power to tax.
  • Congress had no power to regulate trade.
  • No national court system (judicial branch)
  • Changes to the Articles required unanimous votes 
300

This invention facilitated the growth of cotton based slavery across the deep South. 50 extra points if you include the inventor.

What is the Cotton Gin (created by Eli Witney)?

300

This act was passed in order to remove trusts or monopolies in 1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act 

300

This doctrine declared the US would assist any country under threat of communism by military aid. This doctrine declared the US would provide $ aid to western Europe in order to rebuild after WWII. 

What is the Truman Doctrine or the Marshall Plan?


400
This economic system was enforced by Britain through the Navigation Acts.

What is mercantalism?

400

This compromise created two houses of Congress and was a compromise between the concerns of large and small states. Extra 50 points if you can name the at least one other compromise.

What is the Connecticut Compromise or Great Compromise? What is the 3/5ths Compromise? 

400

This enabled Maine and Missouri to enter the United States, maintaining the balance of slave and free states.

What is the Compromise of 1820?

400

Match the muckraker to their area of focus during the Progressive Era. 100 points PER muckraker.

Jacob Riis 

Upton Sinclair

Ida B Wells 

Jane Addams 

Jacob Riis What are tenements, cities, or urban slums? 

Upton Sinclair: What is the meat packing industry or working conditions for the poor?

Ida B. Wells: What are lynchings or African American rights?

Jane Addams: What is settlement houses or immigration?

400

Two social programs that the Great Society is known for creating that STILL exist today.

What is medicaid, medicare, or headstart?

500

Name the trade/economics of each of the colonial regions below. Only receive points if you correctly identify all three! 


Northern/New England Colonies

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies  

500

The taxes passed in between 1754-1700s reflected an end to the period of ____________ by Britain.

Salutary Neglect

500

Henry Clay's ________________ advocated for government funding of new means of connecting the different part of the country such as the National Road for the purposes of trade 

What is the American System? 

500

Name two key strikes that were led by labor unions against the rise of monopolies and industry during the Gilded Age?

What is - Homestead Strike, Railroad Strike of 1877, Haymarket Affair, others?

500

The name of the book that Betty Friedan wrote that launched the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

What is the Feminine Mystique?

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