European Colonization
The Americas were names after this person?
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
This is name of the king of Britain at the time.
Who was King George III?
This is the name of the first form of American government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This is the name of the huge land purchase that nearly doubled the size of the US.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These were the journalists who fought against corruption and abuse.
Who were the muckrakers?
This person conquered the Aztecs in modern day Mexico.
Who was Hernan Cortez?
This is the name of the document that broke the political ties with Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the group that published papers arguing for ratification of the Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
This is the name of the expedition that mapped the Louisiana Territory?
What is the Lewis and Clark expedition?
This is the president who presided over the US Age of Imperialism.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
This was the name for the exchange of animals, plants, diseases, and ideas.
What was the Colombian Exchange?
This is the name of the act that forced colonists to pay extra money for paper goods.
What is the Stamp act?
This is the name of the war fought against the British over trade and impressment of Americans in the British navy.
What is the War of 1812?
This is the name of the event that tempted people to move to California.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This was the New York politician known for graft and featured in many of Thomas Nast's political cartoons.
Who was Boss Tweed?
These four countries were most active in the "Age of Exploration."
What are Spain, England, France, and Portugal?
This event caused the British parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts.
Boston Tea Party
This is the man who wrote the Bill of Rights to get the Anti-Federalists to compromise.
Who was James Madison?
This is the famous painting by John Gast that so accurately portrays the idea of Manifest Destiny.
What is "American Progress"?
This is the name of the book by Upton Sinclair that exposed the meat packing industry.
What was The Jungle?
This Spanish priest criticized the Spaniards for their treatment of indigenous people?
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
This person wrote Common Sense and The Crisis?
Who is Thomas Paine?
These are the people who pushed for war against the British.
Who were the War Hawks?
This is the name of the war that led to increased fighting over slave versus non-save states.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This was the name of legalized segregation in the South.
What was Jim Crow?