Unit 1 (1491-1607)
This is the prevailing theory of how the Americas were first inhabited by both people and animals during the last ice age.
What is the Bering Land Bridge theory?
This was the forced movement of English farmers from newly privatized farmland in 17th century England that resulted in an economic and social crisis.
What was the enclosure movement?
This was the name given to the acts that were enacted by Parliament to punish protestors in Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This technological innovation made it easier to extract deeply embedded seeds in cotton.
What was the cotton gin?
Nomadic Plains Indians hunted this animal, primarily by chasing the animal off of a cliff.
What is bison?
Which historical development resulted in Indian tribes shifting from nomadic to settled lifestyles?
What is agriculture?
This crop made colonization of the Americas profitable for England.
What is tobacco?
Thomas Paine's Common Sense is seen as the antecedent to this document drafted by the Continental Congress.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the widely held belief that the United States had a divine right to continue colonizing westward into the interior of North America and beyond.
What was Manifest Destiny?
This is the name of the deadliest passage of the Atlantic slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
Gold was the primary motivation for the Spanish colonization of the Americas. This is the other justification for Spain's colonization of the Americas.
What is religion? (Catholicism, God, etc.)
This is the name of the document that was the first known written frame of government in what is now the United States.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This battle helped to persuade the French to aid America during the revolution.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This rebellion challenged the property ownership requirement to vote in Rhode Island and helped to expand white male democracy.
What was the Dorr War?
This is the name of the 18th-century religious revival in which a resurgence of religious fundamentalism occurred in the English colonies in North America.
What is the Great Awakening?
This labor system replaced the Encomienda system, granting Indians wages but still slavery-like in many ways.
What is repartimiento?
This rebellion occurred in 1676 when smaller Virginia farmers protested violently in response to the corruption of Governor William Berkeley, who rewarded his followers with land and legislative offices.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This was the first frame of government for the United States drafted by Congress in 1777.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This is the name of the compromise which granted Missouri and Maine statehood and made slavery illegal north of the 36th parallel.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This is the name of the acts John Adams used to silence anti-federalists.
What are the Alien & Sedition Acts?
A majority of enslaved Africans were sent to this continent.
What is South America?
This war was the result of disputes between Britain and France over boundaries in North America.
What is the Seven Years' War? (The French & Indian War)
This was the name of the compromise that created a two-house Congress consisting of a Senate with 2 representatives from each state and a House of Representatives apportioned according to population.
What was the Great Compromise? (Connecticut Compromise)
This is the name of the currency that Andrew Jackson believed to be more reliable.
What is hard money?
This is the name of the policy that England enacted in the Americas that left the colonies to largely govern themselves.
What is salutary neglect?