American Beginnings
Immediately after Columbus arrived, historians have noted that this is the main reason why millions of Native Americans died between 1500-1600
What are diseases?
The most prominent American figure of the Enlightenment
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This act cut colonial merchants out of the tea trade
What is the tea act?
This compromise settled how the number of enslaved people in a state would be represented in Congress
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The conclusion of this war gave U.S. ships sovereignty in the Atlantic Ocean
What is the War of 1812?
The two monarchs who ended 700 years of holy warfare in the Iberian Peninsula
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
Africans were enslaved and brought to the Americas through this portion of the Triangular Trade Route
What is the middle passage?
This document claimed that the colonies had to right to create a government that would uphold the unalienable rights of the people
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The political group that demanded a bill of rights in the U.S. Constitution
who are the Anti-Federalists?
This Supreme Court ruling expanded the powers of the Judicial Branch through the process of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These Spanish explorers were primarily interested in finding vast wealth in the Americas
What are conquistadors?
These workers served for a limited number of years before being set free
What are indentured servants?
These were the colonists who were accustomed to British rule and opposed independence
Who are Loyalists?
Federalists believed that this document had to be replaced because it gave states too much power
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This act issued by Washington formed the basis of the Supreme Court with one chief Justice and five associate judges
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
They were the indigenous people of Hispaniola that Columbus interacted with
Who are the Taino/Arawak?
The Proclamation of 1763 prevented colonists from settling west of this Mountain Range
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This battle was considered the turning point of the American Revolutionary War?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
He argued in the Federalists Papers that a Democracy would give the less educated too much power and therefore argued for a Republic
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The name of the Anti-Federalists party under the political leadership of Thomas Jefferson
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
Appalled by the cruel treatment of Indigenous people of the Caribbean, this Spanish Friar called for the end of encomienda
This Native American tribe allied with the British during the French and Indian War
Who are the Iroquois?
He is considered the first casualty of the American Revolution/first person to die for the United States
Who is Crispus Attucks?
The Founding Fathers modeled the Government and the District of Columbia after this old civilization
What is the Roman Republic?
A Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance against U.S. expansion in the Midwest
Who is Tecumseh?