Native Americans Prior to 1492
The two subsistence methods traditionally used by Native Americans.
What are hunting & gathering and agriculture?
The first naval battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of the Margaretta?
The U.S. government's policy of forcing Native American tribes to leave their ancestral lands and relocate to lands further west.
What was Indian Removal?
Perhaps the most important invention of the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
This white terror group used violence to intimidate black voters and undermine support for the Republican Party in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
A small society of 10-50 people.
What is a band?
This document famously proclaimed "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This state was an independent republic before being annexed by the United States in 1845.
What is Texas?
These connected existing waterways, allowing people & goods to travel by water into the American interior and resulting in the growth of places like Michigan, Wisconsin, & Illinois.
What are canals?
This amendment established the principle of birthright citizenship in order to protect the rights of former slaves.
What was the Fourteenth Amendment?
The five original Wabanaki tribes of present-day Maine & the Maritimes.
Who are the Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, & Mi'kmaq?
This popular phrase reflected the colonists' disapproval of new taxes following the French & Indian War.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
The idea that the United States was destined by God to expand westward to the Pacific, spreading democracy, capitalism, Christianity, etc.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention used signals to send coded messages over a wire, enabling faster long-distance communication.
What is the telegraph?
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
An alliance of five Native American tribes: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, & Seneca.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
What is salutary neglect?
This conflict resulted in the cession of Florida to the United States from Spain.
What was the Seminole Campaign?
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This compromise admitted California to the Union as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, compelling Northerners to capture escaped slaves and return them to the South.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The most prominent figure in Wabanaki lore.
Who is Koluskap?
A series of acts passed by the British Parliament in retribution for the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Coercive or Intolerable Acts?
The treaty that resulted in the removal of the Cherokee to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What was the Treaty of New Echota?
In the 18th century, this economic system began to dominate the economies of both Great Britain and the United States as business owners used their profits to expand their businesses and invest in better technology.
What is capitalism?
This radical abolitionist led a failed raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia; he was convicted of treason and hanged.
Who was John Brown?