Colonial America
This colonial region, known for its large plantations, relied heavily on slavery and agriculture.
What were the Southern Colonies?
This event, in 1773, saw American colonists protest the British tax on tea by dumping it into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document, ratified in 1781, served as the first constitution of the United States.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States and gave control over the Mississippi River and New Orleans.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
This amendment, passed in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This event in which indentured servants collaborated with other poor whites against the power of plantation owners led to increased importation of slaves from Africa thereafter.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
This European country provided military assistance and funds to the Americans, significantly contributing to the success of the American Revolution.
What is France?
Which two groups of people disagreed over the power of the Federal government during the writing of the US Constitution?
Who were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
This 1823 doctrine warned European nations against interfering in the Western Hemisphere and was aimed at preventing European colonization in the Americas.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This amendment, passed in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This war (1754-1763) between Britain and France in North America resulted in Britain gaining control of Canada and the Ohio River Valley.
What was the French and Indian War?
This American general from Virginia led American forces to victory at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.
Who was George Washington?
This system, established by the Constitution, divides the government into three branches that balance each other's power: executive, legislative, and judicial.
What are checks and balances?
This act, known for its forced relocation of the Cherokee nation and other indigenous nations, led to the deaths of thousands along the Trail of Tears.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
This 1861 event marked the beginning of the Civil War when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. fort in a South Carolina harbor.
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
The Puritans at Plymouth collaborated with this indigenous leader and enjoyed the "First Thanksgiving" with him.
Who was Massasoit?
This document, signed in 1776, formally declared the American colonies' independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first ten amendments of the US Constitution, known as this, were added to protect the rights of individual citizens from the power of the Federal government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This abolitionist and former slave published an influential autobiography and was a prominent speaker for the anti-slavery movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This event marked the end of Reconstruction as federal troops were withdrawn from the South, leading to the rise of Jim Crow laws and the return of Southern Democratic control.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This confederacy of indigenous nations was created by Hiawatha "the Peacemaker" and was guided by a constitution known as the Great Law of Peace.
What is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
This treaty, signed in 1783, officially ended the American Revolution and recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This event in 1787 led to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This 1848 event in New York marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This organization was founded in 1865 to assist freed slaves and poor whites in the South with education, legal assistance, and employment.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?