Period 1–2: 1491–1754
This exchange introduced crops, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1763 agreement ended the French and Indian War and expanded British territorial claims.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
This 1803 decision established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This term refers to the late 19th-century era of industrialization and superficial prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
This U.S. policy, proposed in 1899, aimed to ensure equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This group of Protestants wanted to purify the Church of England and established colonies in New England.
Who are the Puritans?
This act required colonists to house British soldiers during peacetime.
What is the Quartering Act?
This religious revival movement inspired major antebellum reform efforts.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This 1887 law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Act?
This global conflict from 1914 to 1918 saw the U.S. join in 1917 to “make the world safe for democracy.”
What is World War I?
This Spanish system forced Native Americans into labor in exchange for protection and Christianization.
What is the encomienda system?
This 1776 document formally declared American independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This 1820 agreement temporarily resolved the issue of slavery in new territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers and "bread and butter" issues.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This 1947 plan offered economic aid to rebuild Europe and contain communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This crop transformed the economy of the Chesapeake colonies.
What is tobacco?
This rebellion of farmers protesting taxes revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This 1852 novel intensified sectional conflict by depicting the cruelties of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This event in 1894 involved a nationwide railway strike that was crushed by federal troops.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This 1962 event was the closest the U.S. and USSR came to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This event showed the early colonial resistance to Native American power in New England.
What is King Philip’s War?
This compromise resolved representation disputes by creating a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1973 Supreme Court case legalized abortion nationwide.
What is Roe v. Wade?