Period 1
1491-1607
1491-1607
Who were the first immigrants to the Americas? (13,000 years ago)
Clovis people
Who was the Puritan governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
John Winthrop
What is impressment?
Forcibly enlisting sailors into the British navy against their will.
What is the power implied in the Constitution that gives federal courts the right to review and determine the constitutionality of acts passed by Congress?
Judicial review
The Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican-American War, and the Gadsden Purchase; are all examples of what?
Manifest Destiny
Nicknamed “the Lost Colony.” First attempted English colony in the New World
Roanoke
What was the significance of King Phillip's War in 1675?
It was b/w Wampanoags, Narragansetts, and other Indian peoples, against English settlers. It was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.
What was the title of the book written by Thomas Paine that made points as to why monarchy was always a bad way for people to be governed?
"Common Sense"
What treaty ended the war of 1812?
Treaty of Ghent
Roger Taney is most infamous for his majority opinion in THIS Supreme Court Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What was the Columbian Exchange?
interchange of diseases, plants, animals, and human cultures b/w New and Old worlds after 1492
In which war did Puritans set houses on fire, destroy a village, kill the people, and sell the survivors into slavery (1636-37).
Pequot War
What was the outcome of the First Continental Congress?
A ban on British imports (and then exports) and a ban on consumption of tea from East India Company
What compromise made Missouri a slave state but Maine a free state?
Missouri Compromise
While Union forces expected a quick & easy win, this early battle of the Civil War resulted in a Confederate victory that foreshadowed a long and bloody war
(First) Battle of Bull Run - July 1861
Name for the legal system established by the Spanish where Conquistadores or other officials were given a set number of American Indians who would work for them while being instructed in the Catholic faith
What was the transit of slaves from Africa to the Americas in mass numbers called?
Middle Passage
No British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains as well as protection of Indian rights to Western lands describes the...
Proclamation Line of 1763
What caused the Panic of 1819?
Banks failed
What government program was created in 1865 to help manage and assist newly emancipated slaves?
Freedmen's Bureau
Who were the mound builders?
Cahokia people of the Mississippi Valley
What was the rejected plan in 1754, that called for an intercolonial union to manage defense and Indian affairs?
Albany Plan of Union
What are some acts in the 1760s that pushed the people in America to seek revolution?
The Sugar Act of 1764, The Currency Act of 1764, The Stamp Act of 1765, Revenue Act of 1766
Who was the Adams-Onís Treaty between?
Spain and US
What was the result of the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes became president after he agreed to remove the last remaining federal troops stationed in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana (goodbye Reconstruction)