Pre Colonial-Colonial Era
How did people first arrive in what would become the US?
They crossed the Bering Land Bridge.
What did American colonists upset with English taxation demand?
Representation in Parliament
What are the first ten Amendments to the Constitution called?
The Bill of Rights
What is the term that describes a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices?
Robber Baron
What is the term for small rental units that often consisted of only one room?
Tenements
Who believed they had discovered a western sea route to Asia until the day they died?
Christopher Columbus
What is term for the portion of the triangular trade in which African prisoners were brought to the Americas?
The Middle Passage
What is the term for the idea that the US was destined to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
DAILY DOUBLE
Who ran the Standard Oil Company, which controlled 90% of the nation's oil supply?
John D. Rockefeller
What is the term for a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way?
Captain of Industry
Which region of the 13 colonies was mostly settled by people fleeing religious persecution?
The New England Colonies
Who wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal with natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Thomas Jefferson
Name at least 3 states acquired after the Mexican-American war.
TX, AZ, CA, UT, NM, CO
What invention/system that connected the country, but destroyed the way of life for Native Americans?
Transcontinental Railroad
What is an organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting their work?
Labor Union
What philosopher argued that all government rested on the natural rights of the governed?
John Locke
DAILY TRIPLE
What was the first governing document of the US?
Articles of Confederation
What did the Emancipation Proclamation accomplish?
Freeing enslaved people in the rebel states, but not in the border states.
What is the political theory that advocates that the community as a whole should control the production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services?
Socialism
Name at least one reason why children were hired in factories.
Many poor families had no choice but to send their children to work in order to help the family survive.
Children were small enough to fit easily among the machines
Could be hired for simple work for a fraction of an adult man’s pay. Would not unionize.
What is the term for the belief that a monarch was selected by God through birth in the royal family?
Divine Right of Kings
What was the agreement reached that was a result of disagreements between Northern and Southern states over how to count enslaved people in the census?
3/5ths Compromise
What was the term for the period following the American Civil War in which the US tried to reintegrate the Confederate states, formerly enslaved African Americans, and former Confederates back into the Union?
Reconstruction
What is the belief that ordinary people should control government rather than a small group of wealthy, elite politicians?
Populism
What was the name of the reservation in which soldiers opened fire Native Americans encamped in South Dakota, killing between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly women and children?
Wounded Knee