Exploration and Exchange
This event saw the transfer of crops, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colony, founded by a Catholic proprietor, passed the Act of Religious Toleration in 1649.
What is Maryland?
The 1787 rebellion in Massachusetts that highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This president emphasized limiting federal power and reflecting the values of the people.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Reconstruction ended in 1876 after this controversial event.
What is the presidential election of 1876?
This European animal transformed farming and transportation in the Americas.
What is the horse?
These companies allowed investors to pool resources to fund colonies in hopes of profit.
What are joint-stock companies?
Washington warned against political parties and foreign alliances in this famous address.
What is the Farewell Address?
Approximately how much larger the United States became as result of the Louisiana Purchase
What is double?
The belief that Americans were destined to expand westward was known as this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Spanish system required Native Americans to provide labor and tribute to colonial overlords, significantly impacting indigenous populations.
What is the Encomienda System?
This rebellion in 1676 highlighted tensions between poor farmers and colonial elites in Virginia.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
The Coercive Acts, passed by Britain to punish Massachusetts, were called this by the colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The Supreme Court’s decision in this case established judicial review as a fundamental principle.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World between these two European powers.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
The First Great Awakening was characterized by the spread of this type of religious movement.
What is Protestant evangelicalism?
The Proclamation Line of 1763 forbade colonists from settling west of this natural geographic boundary.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
The Missouri Compromise temporarily eased tensions by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state along this parallel.
What is the 36°30' line?
The term “total war” best describes this Union general’s military strategy, especially during his infamous March to the Sea.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was led by this Native American leader who temporarily expelled the Spanish from the Southwest.
Who is Popé?
The Navigation Acts, enforced by Britain, were meant to regulate this economic policy in the colonies.
What is mercantilism?
The Federalist Papers were written to support the ratification of the Constitution by these three men.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
The nullification crisis under Andrew Jackson centered around South Carolina’s opposition to these federal measures.
What are tariffs?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 used this controversial principle to determine whether territories would allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?