Period 1
The Columbian Exchange officially started in what year?
What is 1492
The first successful English colony was
What is Jamestown (1607)?
Paul Revere made an engraving to convince people that the British were treating their colonial subjects too harshly. This was used as propaganda.
What was the "Boston Massacre" or "Bloody Massacre"
This Eli Whitney invention that increased slavery (made processing cotton faster)
What was the cotton gin
The time period following the Civil War was known as ____________________. There were gains made for the rights of freedmen and there was an attempt to punish the South.
What was Reconstruction?
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
Andrew Carnegie
This muckraking journalist exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
This policy, articulated by George F. Kennan, aimed to prevent the spread of Soviet influence abroad.
Containment
This conservative president, elected in 1980, implemented supply-side economics and increased military spending.
Ronald Reagan
The enslavement of natives by the spanish was called:
What is the encomienda?
New England colonies typically relied on these types of economic activities
What was fishing and shipbuilding
In rebellion of the Tea Act, colonists infamously dressed as natives, climbed aboard a trading vessel and dumped millions of dollars worth of tea into the Boston Harbor
What was the Boston Tea Party
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
A component of the Compromise of 1850, the ________________________ was passed on September 18, 1850 and served as a fundamental role in accelerating America toward the Civil War. It required that runaway slaves be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This time period was known for the rapid industrialization of the United States which led to a booming economy. However, many social issues remained such as mistreatment of workers and monopolies.
What was the Gilded Age.
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This massive economic aid package was designed to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II and prevent the appeal of communism. It was a follow-up to the "Truman Doctrine".
What was the Marshall Plan
This term refers to the increased interconnectedness of the world through trade, technology, and cultural exchange.
globalization
The primary cause of death for natives after European arrival was
What is small pox/ disease
This concept was what caused European nations to colonize in the first place. They were seeking to find new resources in an effort to benefit the "mother country".
What is mercantilism
The first failed constitution of the United States was the ______________. This rebellion proved that it was too weak and that a new Constitution was needed. (two part answer)
What was the Articles of Confederation and Shays' Rebellion
The time period of economic expansion and early industrialization that occurred in the 1830s and 40s. New inventions such as the steam engine, cotton gin, and early factories such as textile mills in Lowell, MA. became common.
What was the "Market Revolution".
Though passed in 1820, 35 years before the Civil War, the ___________________ played an integral role in forcing the nation into Civil War. It was passed as a means to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states
What was the Missouri Compromise?
These laws, primarily in the South, enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jim Crow laws
In point 14 of Wilson's 14 Point plan for a peaceful post-WWI Europe, he proposed:
What was the League of Nations?
This Supreme Court case in 1954 declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
What was Brown V Board of Education
This major foreign policy event involved the United States leading a coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion in 1991.
Persian Gulf War
Who was the man who wrote "A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies" in an effort to make people in Europe sympathize with the natives?
Who was Bartolome de las Casas
This "region" of the colonies was known for its fertile soil, rainy summers and dependence on tobacco production via the hands of slaves. Jamestown would have been located here.
What is the Chesapeake?
This document promoted the idea of natural rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It set the stage for breaking away from England by listing grievances against King George III. Also, what year? (2 parts)
What was the Declaration of Independence, 1776
This was the warning for Europeans to stop colonizing in the Western Hemisphere. Later in history, Teddy Roosevelt added to this "doctrine".
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
Passed in 1854, the ________________________ gave what’s called popular sovereignty to states. This meant that the settlers of a territory or state were able to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. This overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers. Led to Bleeding Kansas.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The ______________________ Act was an attempt to break up monopolies. Instead it was used to break up labor unions.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Following the Great Depression, FDR enacted the ___________________ in an attempt to relieve American workers, reform businesses, and recover the economy.
What was the New Deal?
What was the "New Left"
The term describing welfare programs as negative. This term is generally used by __________________. (2 answers).
What is Entitlements, Conservatives
The Pueblo Revolt was caused by these three factors
What was taking land, forced conversion, and the encomienda
Disputes over land between the poor and rich near Jamestown (and also involved conflict with Native) led to an uprising by indentured servants. As a result there became more reliance on slavery instead. This was called:
What was Bacon's Rebellion
The anti-federalists agreed to ratify the new constitution when _________________ was added, thus solidifying the protection of individual and state protections against the government.
What was the Bill of Rights
This was the main cause of the "nullification crisis" - where South Carolina argued that it didn't have to follow federal trade law. Andrew Jackson threatened to use military force to get them to fall in line.
What was the "Tariff of Abominations"?
Prior to the passage of the 13th Amendment, Lincoln gave this executive order that freed slaves in rebelling states.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads. Later led to the Progressive Era.
Populist movement
Once World War II came to an end in ____________ (year), this led to the start of a new conflict between the East and West known as the _________________.
What was 1945, Cold War
This legislative package, championed by Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to create programs addressing poverty, education, and civil rights.
The Great Society
In the 90s, this law passed that allowed for there to be "free trade" between Mexico, the US, and Canada.
What was the "North American Free Trade Agreement" or NAFTA