Period 1
This crop, grown by Native Americans in Mesoamerica, became a staple that supported population growth in Afroerasia.
What is maize (corn)?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This war between Britain and France in North America ended in 1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
hat is the Louisiana Purchase?
This belief justified U.S. expansion across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This agreement between Spain and Portugal divided the New World in 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas? (Line of Demarcation)
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia exposed tensions between frontier settlers and colonial elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This plan created a strong central government but was replaced in 1789.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This doctrine warned European nations against colonizing in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1850 law required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This system granted Spanish settlers the right to demand labor from Native Americans.
What is the encomienda system?
This religious revival in the 1730s–1740s emphasized emotional faith and personal salvation.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This rebellion of Massachusetts farmers in 1786 highlighted weaknesses in the Articles.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The widespread exchange of goods, diseases, and animals between the Old and New Worlds is called this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This document established a self-government system for Pilgrims in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths for representation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This policy forced Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi River.
What is Indian Removal?
This 1863 proclamation declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Native American confederacy helped early English settlers survive in Virginia.
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
This policy allowed colonies to operate with minimal British interference before 1763.
What is salutary neglect?
This event prompted the coercive or intolerable acts to be placed on the colonies.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This religious revival inspired reform movements like abolitionism and temperance.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and integrating freedmen.
What is Reconstruction?