Period 1: 1491-1609
What was the main crop that supported Native American societies in Mesoamerica?
What is Maize/Corn?
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown?
What war from 1754–1763 led Britain to increase taxes on the colonies?
What is the French & Indian War? (Or the Seven Years' War)
What 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What idea justified U.S. expansion across the continent in the mid-1800s?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Which European country first dominated exploration of the Americas in the 1500s?
What/Who is Spain?
Which 1620 agreement established self-government for the Pilgrims?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What slogan expressed colonial resentment of British taxation?
What is "No taxation without representation"?
What 1823 doctrine warned Europe not to interfere in the Americas?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What was the main issue addressed by the Compromise of 1850?
What is the expansion of slavery into new territories?
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Admission of California as a free state
- Popular sovereignty in new territories
What was the name of the economic system where colonies provided raw materials to the mother country and became more powerful the more resources and land they had?
What is Mercantilism?
What was the main labor system used on in the British colonies BEFORE the introduction of slave labor?
What is indentured servitude?
What compromise created a two-house Congress at the Constitutional Convention?
What is Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise?
Which reform movement was strongly connected to the Second Great Awakening?
What is...
- Abolitionist Movement
- Women's Suffrage Movement
- Temperance Movement
- Education Reform
What Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in the territories?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
Name the system of transporting goods, diseases, people, etc from the Old World to the New World, including the Middle Passage/Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is the Triangle Trade?
Which 1676 rebellion in Virginia highlighted tensions between frontier farmers and the colonial elite?
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
What was George Washington’s main warning in his Farewell Address?
What is...
- Avoid political parties
- Stay out of European affairs
What invention greatly expanded cotton production and slavery in the South?
What is Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin?
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation, and what did it actually do?
What is... declared slaves in Confederate or "rebelling" states free, shifted war aim to ending slavery, encouraged enlistment of Black soldiers
Name one way the Columbian Exchange significantly affected Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
What is...
- Europe gained new crops/wealth and population growth
- Africa saw increased slave trade
- Americas faced disease and depopulation of Native Americans
Describe the life/economy of one of the colony regions.
What is...
- New England: religious focus, industrial economy
- Middle: tolerant and diverse, grains farming
- South: cash crops like tobacco make it an agricultural economy
This is the call for women to teach republican values within the family and provided educational opportunities for women.
What is "republican motherhood"?
In what ways did the Market Revolution change the American economy and society?
What is...
- Growth of factories
- Introduction of wage labor
- Transportation improvements
- Shifting of women's roles
Why did Reconstruction ultimately fail to bring lasting equality to freedmen?
What is...
- Rise of white supremacist groups (KKK)
- Sharecropping system
- Compromise of 1877
- Jim Crow Laws