Colonial Period
What is the name for someone who agreed to work for so many years in exchange for paying passage from Europe to the colonies?
indentured servant
What was the main goal at the start of the Civil War?
To preserve the union
He was the firs president, commander of American forces in the Revolutionary War.
George Washington
This act was enacted by parliament to raise revenue for England after it incurred debt from the French and Indian War.
The Sugar Act
This is the name given to miners who flocked to California for the gold rush
49ers
What was the name of the religious revival that occurred in the early American colonies?
Great Awakening
The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the concept of ____ ___ when deciding if states would be free or slave.
popular sovereignity
He was an Italian navigator in the Spanish service, and discovered America in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
Revenue from this tax was to be used solely for the support of the British soldiers protecting the colonies
The Stamp Act
In 1890 this battle marked the end of Native American resistance
The Battle of Wounded Knee
These religious leaders wished to reform the Church of England to be more in line with their Calvinist ideology, and rejected the Roman Catholic holdovers in the Anglican Church.
Puritans
President Lincoln fired this general twice the second time after a failed attempt to win definitively at Antietam.
George McClellan
American Indian who is said to have prevented the execution of John Smith.
Pocahontas
John Adams successfully defended the perpetrators of this horrific event, and anti-Royal leaders used it to spur action in the colonies.
The Boston Massacre
This historian wrote a famous thesis on the effect of the frontier on the United States. He thought the west provided a safety valve by giving the poor an area to move to and get a new start.
Frederick Jackson Turner
What was the biggest complaint against the Acts the British Parliament was imposing on the colonists, such as the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, etc.?
"no taxation without representation?"
This notorious Confederate Prison saw many Union POW soldiers die of disease .
Andersonville
Invented the cotton gin and a system of interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
Influenced by Locke and other enlightenment thinkers, Common Sense was written by this revolutionary leader.
Thomas Paine
This law took away 80% of the Indian lands by requiring them to register for land as individuals rather than as tribes
Dawes Severalty Act
This man was banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he said church should be separated from the state. He was the founder of the colony of Rhode Island.
Roger Willams
In this man's essay, he argues society as a whole benefits when a few business people are able to amass huge amounts of wealth. Name the man and the book.
Andrew Carnegie and Gospel of Wealth
This woman challenged the religious ideology of predestination and was banished from the Massachusetts colony.
Anne Hutchison
The Continental Congress' game plan for government was outlined in this important document early on in the war.
Articles of Confederation
This is the name for the Great Plains in the early 1800's when many people thought the land there was not fit to settle on and should be left to the Indians.
Great American Desert