A long time ago, in the colonies far, far away
This was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the "New World" (Americas) and the "Old World" (Europe, Africa, and Asia) which profoundly reshaped global ecology, agriculture, and culture, but also led to the devastating spread of diseases that decimated Indigenous populations.
In the southern colonies, this group of people developed ways to accommodate or resist daily degradation through work slowdowns, stealing, running away, and open rebellion.
Who are Slaves?
Though the Second Continental Congress met in May of 1775 and created the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, they did not favor nor push for independence from Great Britain. Instead, it was this pamphlet that was distributed to great popularity that helped to shatter patriots' last vestige of loyalty to the British Crown.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
This "line" represents the separation of "savagery" and "civilization" during Westward Expansion.
What is the Frontier?
This, written by John Locke, declares that all humans have certain inalienable rights.
What is The Second Treatise on Government?
In the Virginia colony, this cash crop, a steady stream of immigration, and a stable government proved to be a formula for success.
What is tobacco?
During the Enlightenment, this person stood at the center of Philadelphia's educated and scientific community having founded the Library Company, established a fire department, founded what would become the University of Pennsylvania, and organized various philosophical societies.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
BONUS: What was the Enlightenment? Where did it begin?
Protests about wages and prices occurred because many Americans believed that republican citizens should always put this before individual gain, especially during wartime crises.
What is the "common good"?
As he was preparing to leave office, President George Washington urged Americans to give these up, claiming that it would only create factions and, essentially, that no heathy republic could exist with these remaining.
What are political parties?
The US founding document begins with "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth..."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In New England, this group refused to tolerate religious and intellectual differences within the colonies.
Who are the Puritains?
This was the largest slave insurrection in British North America (colonies), in which 20 enslaved Africans raided a store/warehouse, taking with them guns and various other weapons and killing two shopkeepers. Afterwards, they marched south toward promised freedom in Spanish Florida, growing in number along their way, and killing at least 20 more.
What is the Stono Rebellion of 1739?
This, also known as "jail fever," claimed hundreds of lives of American prisoners held in New York and on British hospital ships during the Revolutionary War.
What is Typhus?
BONUS: True or False; In New York jails alone, the death toll amounted to more than all the men killed in military action during the Revolutionary War?
This group argued that the newly completed US Constitution created a too-powerful federal government that threatened individual liberties and state sovereignty.
Who are the Antifederalists?
Ratified in 1791, these are the first ten Amendments to the US Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Bonus: Which of these ten amendments states that any powers not explicitly given to the federal government by the US Constitution, nor withheld from the states, are reserved to the states or to the people?
By negotiating arrangements to trade fur with both the French and English, this Indigenous group built a Covenant Chain to maintain relations, highlighting their development of a sophisticated diplomacy and their control over a great deal of the North American fur trade.
Who are the Iroquois?
The conclusion of this in 1763 this gave the British Empire unparalleled claims over new land, sparking numerous disputes in which Indigenous communities and British colonists violently clashed, leading Parliament to create the Proclamation Line of 1763.
What is end of the French and Indian/Seven Years War?
BONUS: What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?
In 1776, continued American expansion into this area, beyond the Appalachian ridge, revitalized American Indian hatreds towards settlement and expansion and grew tribal support for an alliance with the British.
What is the Ohio Territory?
Under this US Supreme Court Chief Justice, the legal precedent for declaring laws and acts as unconstitutional was established in Marbury v. Madison.
Who is John Marshall?
This man wrote Federalist 10, arguing that private rights and public good would be best protected in a single large republic.
Who is James Madison?
BONUS: Who were the other authors of the Federalist Papers?
Once married, a woman became subject to her husband under this English law, and, with the exception of her husband's prolonged absence or sudden death, she could no longer make contracts to hire a servant, sell a farm/land, or write a will.
What is Coverture?
Occurring on March 5, 1770, this broke out after British soldiers fired into the crowd, killing 5 people, insisting it was the consequence of having a standing army in their midst.
What is the Boston Massacre?
In November of 1782, this recognized the United States to be "free Sovereign and independent states."
Hint: it was signed into law in September of 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
While this new machine allowed for cotton to be processed more quickly, it caused a significant growth in this.
What is slave labor in the Southern states?
This amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the right to a "speedy and public trial" by jury.
What is the Sixth Amendment?