Scientists believe Asians crossed this between 40,000 to 15,000 years ago
What is the Bering Strait?
100
In 1763, Great Britain defeated France and its Native American allies in this North American conflict
What is the French and Indian War?
100
In 1781, the 13 states adopted this first federal constitution
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
acts or statements that become traditions to be followed
What is a precedent?
100
served as Adams Vice President during his presidency
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
About 3,500 years ago in central Mexico, Indians learned how to grow this, which led to an increase in the population
What is maize/corn?
200
first shots of the American Revolution were fired here
What is Lexington and Concord?
200
Under the nation's first federal constitution (1781), the national government had no say in interstate commerce and could not impose these on colonists
What are taxes?
200
Legislation that established a system of courts in the U.S., made up of 13 federal district courts, one for each state
What is the Judiciary Act (1789)?
200
International agreement that offended the French as a betrayal of their 1779 treaty of alliance with the United States
What is the Jay Treaty?
300
The period from the 14th to the 16th centuries when great advances in science, economics, art, and literature took place in Europe
What is the Renaissance?
300
to pay off war debt, Parliament passes this in 1764, imposing taxes on goods colonists imported from England
What is the Sugar Act?
300
Uprising in rural Massachusetts that highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
International agreement that gave U.S. right to navigate Mississippi River
What is Pinckney's Treaty?
300
The Alien and Sedition Acts targeted these two groups
Who are immigrants and Democratic-Republicans (political opponents of the Federalists)?
400
During the 15th century, this European nation/country took the lead in an era known as the Age of Exploration
What is Portugal?
400
Washington and Continental forces defeated Cornwallis and the British army here in 1781 (city and state please)
What is Yorktown, Virginia?
400
Proposed by delegate Roger Sherman from Connecticut, it settled the differences between the Virginia and New Jersey plans by creating a bicameral, or two-house legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
To help pay off the nation's debt, Hamilton proposed these, which taxed imported goods and helped protect American manufacturers.
What are tariffs?
400
led states in opposing Alien and Sedition Acts through their creation of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Who are Jefferson and Madison?
500
The traffic of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas during the 1500s
What is the Colombian Exchange?
500
Signed in 1783, this international agreement officially ended the war between Great Britain and the American colonies, giving the new nation very favorable boundaries
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
Opponents of the proposed new U.S. Constitution were the Antifederalists, including these two leading Americans from Massachusetts.
Who are Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams?
500
Two armed conflicts in North America in which Washington's administration emerged victorious
What are the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the Whiskey Rebellion?
500
concept in which states seek to cancel or void a federal law they deem unconstitutional