1492-1763
This system was used by the Spanish to organize forced labor of both Native American and African peoples
What is the Encomienda system?
This proclamation forbid colonial settlements past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This act was Andrew Jackson's first major step towards the aims of Manifest Destiny.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
President Rutherford B Hayes ended this Post-Civil War period after withdrawing federal troops from the South in the Compromise of 1877.
What is Reconstruction?
These two alliances formed in the ten years directly after WWII?
What is NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
This future president started his career surveying the Ohio Country for the British Crown.
Who is George Washington?
This general assembly of colonists began a process of collective action and redress for grievances against the British, first in 1774, and also later in 1775.
What is the Continental Congress?
Who is Henry Clay?
This muckraker paved the way for Teddy Roosevelt to create the Food and Drug administration in 1906.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
President Lyndon B. Johnson created a New Deal 2.0 by enacting a wide-range of policies under this moniker.
What is the Great Society?
This 17th-century bloody conflict forever changed Native-Euro relations in the colony Connecticut?
What is the Pequot War/Massacre at the Mystic?
These were the first battles in the Revolutionary War, where Revere rode his horse, and the "Shot Heard Around the World" occured?
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This movement focused on moral salvation through temperance, abolition, and societal reform from the 1790s-1840s
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What is the McKinley Tariff?
This incident moved more power from Congress to the Executive Branch in times of war, a decision later reversed in the 1973 War Powers Act.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This colony, established by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, was formed out of a rejection of Massachusetts Puritanism.
What is Rhode Island?
This 1798 act targeted "enemies of the state" who speak ill against the government, especially in print.
What is the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and established the territories of California, Arizona, Nedada, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This act, passed to help Great Britain's war effort, signalled the official end of American neutrality before World War II.
What is the lend-lease act?
This period of relative peace between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. occured from 1969-1979.
What is detente?
This man led raids against Native American groups in Virginia in the late-1700s to the chagrin of his colonial Governor Berkeley.
Who is Nathanial Bacon?
This landmark supreme court case established judicial review, increasing the power of the judicial branch.
What is Marbury v Madison?
This decision in 1857 reasserted that enslaved peoples were technically possessions in the context of interstate commerce.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This intercepted message sparked outrage and precipitated U.S. involvement in World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
These two bilateral treaties reduced arms of both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in the early 1990s.
What is Start I and Start II?