Foundations
The year English settlers founded Jamestown.
What is 1607?
The battle at which the "shot heard round the world" was fired.
What was Lexington and Concord?
The author of Federalist No. 2 and his main argument.
Who was John Jay and the unity (geographical and social) of the American states?
The winner of the election of 1796.
Who was John Adams?
His steamboat made waves (haha pun intended!) when it first sailed up the Hudson River in 1807.
Who was Robert Fulton?
The difference between the Puritans and the Pilgrims.
A customs ship was burned by a group of people in this key event showing colonial discontent.
What is the Gaspee affair?
A later anti-federalist who left the Constitutional Convention and a federalist who was the largest influence upon the Convention.
Who were George Mason and James Madison?
"54-40 or fight" was the motto of which president, party, and controversy?
Who is James K. Polk, Democratic Party, and Oregon territory?
This thinker argued for the right of revolution and had a major influence upon the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Montcalm and Wolfe's forces battled outside the walls of Quebec in this fight.
What is the Battle of the Plains of Abraham?
The amendments that put forth unenumerated rights and reserved powers.
An African-American abolitionist who was a Methodist preacher.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
The House of Representatives decided this man's presidential election (give man's full name and election name).
Who was Thomas Jefferson and the Revolution of 1800?
This movement starting in the the 1740s that had radicals--who argued for spiritual rebirth and simple living for all-- and moderates.
What is the Great Awakening?
The last major engagement that ended Britain's southern campaign and its year.
What was Yorktown, 1781?
The Constitutional clause that anti-federalists believe would be used to destroy all state governments and the clause their opponents saw as a great bulwark of federalism.
This conflict ended when the U.S. paid Mexico half the money it was secretly going to use to purchase much of Mexico's territory prior to the conflict.
What was the Mexican-American War?
This political party was dominant as a result of a political revolution.
What was the Democratic-Republican Party?
The name for arguably the most brutal, inhumane part of the slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
What were mercantilism and laissez faire?
Explain what the "Great Compromise" was.
What is representation linked to population in the House but equal for each state in the Senate?
The two sets of ideas that supported "King Cotton" and southern sectionalism.
What were slavery as a "positive good" and "paternalism"?
Urban growth from the Market Revolution led to this reaction among some Americans.
What is nativism?