Unit 1
The three colonial regions.
What are New England, The Middle/Breadbasket, and the Southern Colonies?
One of the largest reasons for the divide between Britain and the colonies leading to the American Revolution.
What were taxation, representation, and tarrifs?
One cause of the War of 1812.
What is trade, impressment, or British intervention with natives?
The method of transportation that opened the West.
What were railroads?
The amount of years where a samurai could have faxed Abraham Lincoln.
What is 24 years?
The founder of Pennsylvania and reason for founding.
Who was William Penn and what was to become a safe haven for Quakers?
Three of the acts put into place by the British leading up to the revolution.
What are the sugar act, stamp act, townshend act, or tea act?
The Second Great Awakening.
What was a religious revival that saw moral and philanthropic reforms, leading to the temperance and women’s rights movements?
The goals of the early Republican Party.
What was to get rid of slavery?
Mr. Smiths birth state.
Where is Pennsylvania?
The political set-up of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.
What is a direct democracy based in town halls, a court system and landowners having power who set up local legislature?
The reason for the founders creating such a weak government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is because they did not want the government to have any power over the states in fear of tyranny?
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Three reasons for the civil war.
What were the election of 1860, uncle toms cabin, Sumner Brooks, Kansas-Nebraska act, and/or John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry?
The fourth president of the United States.
Who is James Madison?
Describe the French colonial empire. How did the purpose of this colony affect French interactions with Native Americans.
What was a region in Canada and the Northern United States that was focused on slave trading. This lead to cooperation and amicable relationships between colonists and Native Americans.
The major compromises that had to be made at the Constitutional Convention.
What are the great compromise and the 3/5s compromise?
The Nullification Crisis.
What was when South Carolina was struggling to make money because it had bad crops for some seasons due to overuse of the soil and so when the tariffs of 1828 taxed the manufactured goods they were importing, they declared it unconstitutional and refused to pay? After a revision in 1832 and then the Force Bill in 1833 South Carolina finally accepted the tariff.
The key reasons that made the North win the Civil war.
What is a larger industry, a complete naval blockade, a lower class revolt in the south, and the allowing of the free population to fight for the north?
Mr. Smiths Favorite student.
Who is Beckett Atkisson?
The stono rebelion and the types of laws were a direct result.
What was the largest slave revolt in the British Colonies and a moratorium on slave imports and a harsher slave code?
Enlightenment ideals that influenced the American Revolution.
What was through natural rights and the social contract?
The ways in which the economic and social ideals of the North conflict with those of the South.
What was the ideal economy of the North relies on manufacturing and connection of industrial cities to other regions in and out of the United States and the ideal Southern economy relied on cash crops, especially cotton, that was made possible through large amounts of slave labor and the invention of the cotton gin
Every state that succeeded from the union.
What are SC, MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX, VA, AK, NC, and TN.
Three U.S. territories.
What is American Samoa, Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands?