Period 1-2
This term describes the massive exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1770 event, where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, was used as powerful propaganda by Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This belief held that it was the United States' God-given right to expand across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Current number of stars on American Flag
What is 50?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This "Taxation without Representation" act was the first direct internal tax on the colonies, affecting legal documents and newspapers.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1830 law led to the forced relocation of the "Five Civilized Tribes," culminating in the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1850 law, part of a larger compromise, required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The largest ocean on earth
What is the Pacific ocean?
This 1649 law was passed in Maryland to ensure safety for all Christian denominations, marking an early step toward religious freedom in the colonies.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
This 1787 law established a process for admitting new states and banned slavery in the territory north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This period of rapid economic change saw the transition from subsistence farming to large-scale commercial agriculture and was fueled by new transportation like the Erie Canal.
What is the Market Revolution?
This 1877 political agreement settled a disputed election and resulted in the removal of federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Mr Berkeley first name
What is Colin
his economic policy drove British colonial efforts, aiming to enrich the "mother country" by maintaining a favorable balance of trade.
What is Mercantilism?
This collection of 85 essays, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, argued in favor of ratifying the new Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This inventor's cotton gin and system of interchangeable parts revolutionized both Southern agriculture and Northern industry.
Who is Eli Whitney?
These were the three "Reconstruction Amendments" that abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and guaranteed voting rights regardless of race.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
The largest planet in the Solar System
What is Jupiter?
These laws, first passed in 1651, restricted colonial trade to British ships and ports, though they were often ignored during "Salutary Neglect."
What are the Navigation Acts?
These 1798 laws, passed under John Adams, restricted free speech and targeted immigrants, leading to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This 1848 gathering in New York is considered the first national women's rights convention.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in two Western territories to vote on whether to allow slavery, leading to violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The only letter not used in any US state names?
What is Q?