Period 1
Spain was competing with this country to colonize others.
What is Portugal
The name of this economic trade is a geometric shape.
Triangular Trade
The colonial rivalry between these two European countries led to the Seven Years War
What is Britain and France?
The Missouri Compromise added WHAT state to the US as a free state (no enslaved people permitted here).
What is Maine!
This region of the country relied on free labor leading up to the Civil War
The North.
What is corn?
The Spanish government (amongst others) converted many to this religion
What is Christianity?
The proclamation of 1763 established what?
What is the line (ran North to South along the Appalachian Mountains) that established colonists could not settle west of it.
Who gave the Louisiana Purchase to the United States?
What is France
This ideal basically means that the United States was destined to expand.
Manifest Destiny
This is the century Christopher Columbus came to the Americas, and where Native Societies had been evolving for over 14,000 years at this point
This is one thing British immigrants sought when moving to the colonies? (There are MULTIPLE answers to this. Try to give just one)
What is social mobility, economic prosperity, religious freedom, or improved living conditions.
Due to the Seven Years War (Also known as the French-Indian War), Britain raised these on colonists.
What are taxes?
The invention of the cotton gin led to
What is an increase in enslaved labor.
The compromise of 1850 (while did many things) added this state to the US.
What is California
This acronym, G.G.G. are the three main reasons as to why Europeans wanted to expand to the Americas.
Gold, Glory, God
The Chesapeake and North Carolina colonies grew by exporting THIS good through mostly male indentured servants and later enslaved African Americans.
What is tobacco?
This economic/political policy is when a nation tries to gain more wealth and power than other competing countries.
What is Mercantilism?
What did the Monroe Doctrine warn to European Powers?
What is warning them to not interfere in the Western Hemisphere?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the Great Basin.
Extra: Variety of answers but could include: Dry region where societies were forced to adapt, continued to hunt and gather (especially Bison)
This revolt was led by these people, retaliating against the Spanish encomienda system
Pontiac's Rebellion led to the English trying to limit WHAT?
What is Westward expansion
What is one cause of the War of 1812?
What is 1. impressment/taxes/trade restrictions 2. non-intercourse act 3. British support of Native American resistance
This person protested, worked for, spoke out about, and sometimes risked their lives for this movement.
The abolition movement.