Age of Exploration
This crop's cultivation led to complex native civilizations. Even tribes in the North American southwest were able to irrigate the desert and grow this.
What is maize?
Maryland's Act of Toleration was designed to protect this often-persecuted group.
Who are Catholics?
This radical Patriot group formed in response to the Stamp Act and started tarring, feathering, and tea-partying.
This political party believed in a strong government, ratified the Constitution, and dissolved shortly after the Hartford Convention.
What is the Federalist Party?
This tasty-sounding man led indentured servants in an early rebellion in 17th century Jamestown and burned it down!
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
This is the name for the transfer of plants, animals, ideas, and diseases beginning in the 15th century.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the name of Benjamin Franklin's failed proposal to "join, or die."
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This was the 1764 first tax levied on the American colonies by the British Parliament to pay war debt from the French and Indian War.
What is the Sugar Act?
The court case Marbury v. Madison established this concept that judges have the power to determine the constitutionality of laws.
What is judicial review?
John Winthrop wrote that Massachusetts Bay would become as "city upon a hill" and inspire future utopias for this religious group.
Who are the Puritans?
This is one thing the French explorers did that was significantly different than Spanish explorers.
What is the fur trade? OR
What is friendly relations/assimilation with the natives?
John Peter Zenger's court case protected this individual right, which later became an important part of the U.S. Bill of Rights.
What is freedom of the press?
This turning point battle convinced the French to send military aid to the U.S. and declare war on Britain.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Thomas Jefferson passed the Embargo Act in 1807 to try to stop the British practice of kidnapping American sailors and forcing them to join the British navy, which was also known as this.
What is impressment?
This Spanish friar spoke out strenuously against the cruelties of the Spanish encomienda system at the Valladolid Debate.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
This cliff-dwelling tribe from the Southwest tragically turned to cannibalism to survive before they mysteriously disappeared.
Who were the Anasazi?
TWO PART QUESTION!!!
1. This was the first British American colony.
2. This was the first successful British American colony.
What is Roanoke?
AND
What is Jamestown?
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This 1848 meeting of women led to the drafting of the Declaration of Sentiments demanding women's rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This last president of the Second Bank of the United States was often accused of corruption and accepting bribes and repeatedly clashed with Jackson...and lost.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
What is the island of Hispanola? OR What is the Caribbean islands?
OR Who were the Taino?
These organizations provided the funding for most early British colonies.
What are joint-stock companies?
This sectionalist event, in which South Carolina protested the so-called Tariff of Abominations, led to the Force Bill granting President Jackson the power to order the U.S. military to invade the state.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This man invented the telegraph in the 1830s, revolutionizing communication.
Who is Samuel Morse?