The First Americans
Exploration and Colonization
English Colonial Settlement and Growth
American Revolution
1st Govs and Constitution
Early Republic
Life in the North and South
Division and Civil War
100
These two continents are considered the "New World"
What are both North and South America?
100
Fill-in-the-blank: Columbus sailed the ocean blue...
What is "in 1492?" You should say it like "fourteen hundred ninety two" and type it "1492".
100
This was the main killer of native Americans after the arrival of Europeans, with devastating mortality rates
What are diseases?
100
The American Colonies sent this back to Europe under the system of Mercantilism in the Trans-Atlantic Trade, and bought this back into the colonies - NEED BOTH
What are sent raw materials and bought finished goods?
100
This served(very ineffectively) as the United States of America's first governing document and plan
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
We gained this massive amount of land from France in 1803, more than doubling the size of the USA and raising constitutional questions
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
T/F: The majority of southerners owned slaves.
What is FALSE?
100
Southern states were asserting these rights to support the legality of slavery
What are states rights?
200
This word describes living situations of many native Americans, referring to frequent movement of settlements to follow wildlife or seasonal changes
What is nomadic?
200
These Europeans were the FIRST to discover America, though their knowledge of the New World did not spread
Who are the Vikings?
200
This settlement is the 1st permanent English settlement in the New World, named for the King at the time, who also has a famous Bible translation
What is Jamestown?
200
This word reflects cruel or oppressive government rule, the colonists considered King George III and Parliament violators of their rights and enacting it
"sic simper tyrannis"
What is tyranny?
200
This European philosophical movement influenced the Founding Fathers in ideas such as equality, self rule, freedom and religion
What is the Enlightenment?
200
These two men served as the 1st and 3rd Presidents of the USA, NEED BOTH
Who are George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?
200
This class of farmers owned 20 or more slaves, and were considered the pinnacle of Southern living, they also controlled most Southern politics
Who are the Planters?
200
This side started the Civil War, after firing on an unarmed ship at Ft. Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina
What is the South? AKA Confederates or Rebels
300
This is the most popular theory for how humans arrived in the New World
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
300
BLANK was the driving force behind explorations
What is trade?
300
the first wave of English immigrants came to America is search of this freedom, key in American history and built into the 1st Amendment
What is religious freedom?
300
This war has two names, and led to the end of any major European involvement in North America except for the British
What is the French and Indian War/7 Years' War?
300
The Constitution's first three words, BLANK, set up the idea that the government is for the people, by the people, and of the people
What are "We the People?"
300
T/F: the War of 1812, had no real winners but led to stronger American Patriotism, belief in American survival and respect between Britain and the USA.
What is TRUE?
300
A commonality between Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites in America at the time is the dominance of what religion?
What is Christianity?
300
This Party began in Wisconsin in 1854 with the long term goal of ending slavery, and an initial goal of ending slavery's expansion
What is the Republican Party?
400
"Three Sister Farming" refers to these three crops, grown by New World peoples
What are corn, beans, and squash?
400
This word means "rebirth" in French, this event led to new desires for learning, knowledge and trade
What is Renaissance?
400
This document signed aboard a ship bound for America, served as the first form of democratic government in America, beginning a long American tradition of self-rule/government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
Most of the colonists' complains in the Declaration of Independence had to do with not honoring rights of British citizens. Rights like freedom of movement, criminal trials were violated. Most of all the right to THIS without THIS was repeatedly violated leading to a easy to remember chant
What is "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION?"
400
The Constitution lists three main branches of government, to keep the three from gaining too much power and creating tyrannical laws, THIS SYSTEM is set up between the three. Vetoes, overrides, impeachments, and appointments, judicial review
What are checks and balances?
400
The United States has a capitalist economy, summed up by this French phrase which translates as "let it be"
What is Laissez-Faire?
400
This path is a network of safehouses, known by conductors or by signals, and led fugitive slaves to safety in the North or as far as Canada
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
The Compromise of 1850, by Henry Clay, had these THREE main tenets
What is 1) California will join as a free state, 2) popular sovereignty in new territories/states, 3) strict enforcement of Fugitive Slave Act?
500
T/F: Different environments lead to formation of different cultures.
What is TRUE?
500
This process began after European arrival in the New World and still in occurrance today - it increases diversity and involves diseases, food, religions, ideas, politics, and people
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
Many colonies were sponsored/established by these companies, meant to make money but also with many investors to minimize risks
What are joint stock companies?
500
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine was widely read by the American colonists, convincing readers that British rule of the American colonists should end
What is Common Sense?
500
This compromise by Roger Sherman of Connecticut kept both large and small states happy, with two sides of congress reflecting state level equality and population representation
What is the Great Compromise?
500
Both components of the Missouri Compromise
What are 1) states join in pairs- one slave and one free to maintain balance in the senate, 2) Slavery is outlawed north of the 36/30 line?
500
This religious event in the North gave new enthusiasm for social movements like abolition, temperance, women's suffrage, educational reforms, and psychiatric treatments
What is the Second Great Awakening?
500
The Civil War has these TWO main legacies
What are 1) ending slavery, 2) consolidation of Federal Power over state's rights?
600
In class we covered four major civilizations of Central America, name them in order of existence(the two simultaneous ones can be in either order)
What are 1) the Olmec, 2) the Mayans, 3) the Aztecs, also 3) the Incas?
600
Most colonies, and Americans today are this type of Christians, starting with the Reformation after Martin Luther's 95 Theses were posted critiquing the Catholic Church
What is/are Protestant(s)?
600
George Whitefield was a favorite preacher of Benjamin Franklin, he became famous for his traveling preaching career during this religious event in North America, reflecting the colonists continued commitment to the Christian Religion in the 1730s/40s
What is the 1st Great Awakening?
600
This is the leading principle and promise of America at its founding, small steps have been made since 1776 in living up to the promise such as ending slavery, rights to vote being expanded to all citizens, and civil rights protections
What is "all men are created equal?"
600
The Constitution was ratified only after 10 Amendments were guranteed additions. The 1st Amendment gurantees THESE 5 RIGHTS to US citizens, some of which were violated by the British
What are the freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition? S.P.R.A.P.
600
This man invented the steam engine, largely shrinking the size of the US by creating more efficient river and eventual railroad travel, aiding business and vacations
Who is Robert Fulton?
600
T/F: The United States in the era before the Civil War had gotten WORSE at living up to is promise that all men are created equal.
What is FALSE? While still having a way to go, the USA has taken great strides in living up to promise of equality.
600
All types of people were abolitionists, THIS man was a very powerful speaker in the North, had written a autobiography of his life, and had escaped slavery himself and earned an education, his sons also served in the Civil War
Who if Frederick Douglass?
