Cycle 0 & 1
A new settlement on territory established and governed by a country in another land.
What is a colony?
The part of government that carries out, or executes, the laws.
What is the executive branch?
A person who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849.
What is a forty-niner?
A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The global struggle for power and influence between the United States and the Soviet Union that followed World War II.
What is the Cold War?
Rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law.
What are Natural Rights?
A policy of avoiding political or military agreements with other countries, championed by George Washington.
What is isolationism?
The belief that it was America's right and duty to spread the nation across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A railroad that linked East to West, crossing a continent.
What is the Transcontinental railroad?
June 6, 1944, the day that the Allied invasion of German-occupied France began.
Name of the American Army during the American Revolution.
What is the Continental Army?
The first written plan of government for the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers who lived on the land.
What is a plantation?
A village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Preservation and protection of a natural resource to prevent overuse, destruction, or neglect.
What is conservation?
An agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom.
What is the Magna Carta?
The plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress, a compromise.
What is the Great Compromise?
The gathering of supporters of women's rights in July 1848 that launched the movement for women's right to vote.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The policy of extending a nation's power by gaining political and economic control over countries.
What is imperialism?
A revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in the 1730s.
What is the Great Awakening?
A period of brief national unity and purpose where the country was united together. Under the presidency of James Monroe and would end in the election of 1824.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
A famous slave rebellion in 1831 that changed Southern perspectives towards slaves as to be fearful of.
A group of corporations that unite in order to reduce competition and control prices in a business or an industry.
What is a trust?
The set of programs adopted under the Roosevelt administration to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s.
What is the New Deal?