Period 1 (1491-1607)
Period 2 (1607-1754)
Period 3 (1754-1800)
Period 4 (1800-1848)
Period 5 (1844-1877)
100
The Native Tribe that met Columbus' ship
What is the Arawak or Taino Tribe?
100
The first cash crop of the American colonies.
What is tobacco?
100
It represented the first step in colonial unity against Britain.
What is the Stamp Act Congress of 1765.
100
The first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is John Jay?
100
"Bleeding Kansas" was a direct result of this belief or doctrine.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
The region that was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans that relied on local game for the majority of their needs.
What is the Great Plains region?
200
The end of this event also ended the Age of Salutary Neglect.
What is the French and Indian War?
200
The event that, from 1786-87, demonstrated the weakness of the Federal government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
200

The U.S. Supreme Court chief justice that established "judicial review".

Who is John Marshall?

200
It was resolved by a bipartisan commission and resulted in the end of military reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
300
The tribe that had a highly evolved system of government that was encountered by English settlers.
What is the Iroquois?
300
The leader of the Mass. Bay Colony that envisioned the "city upon the hill."
What is John Winthrop?
300
The turning point of the American Revolution that convinced France to enter the war on America's side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
300
It was convened by the Federalists to end the War of 1812.
What is the Hartford Convention?
300

The political party that was primarily concerned with immigration.

What is the Know-nothing Party?

400
The event that limited trade in Europe and the Mediterranean until 1491.
What is the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453?
400
The colony that became a safe haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
400
The treaty that allowed Washington to establish the principle of executive privilege.
What is Jay Treaty?
400
It was supposedly promised to Henry Clay in the "corrupt bargain".
What is a cabinet position under John Quincy Adams?
400
It contributed most directly to the sharp decrease in the number of Africans transported to the New World after 1800.
What is the outlawing of the international slave trade by Great Britain and the United States?
500
Led to improved diets in the "Old World".
What is the export of "New World" crops?
500

The Act that led to to the imposition of heavy taxes on the North American colonists in the Early 1700s

What is the Navigation Act?

500

The prominent economist who believed that regulations by government interfere with natural laws and so hamper trade.

Who is Adam Smith?

500
During Jefferson's First Inaugural Address, he called for an avoidance of entangling alliances, similar to the advice of another Founding Father.
What is George Washington?
500
The last straw that caused the southern states, specifically South Carolina, to secede from the Union.
What is the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln?
M
e
n
u