Colonial Roots
This colony was founded in 1607 as the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This 1770 event was used as anti-British propaganda after British soldiers killed five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1820 compromise maintained the balance of slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1863 document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1823 statement warned Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1619 event marked the beginning of representative government in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This 1776 document explained why the colonies wanted independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This idea claimed that a state could choose not to follow federal law.
What is nullification?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1898 war marked the U.S.'s emergence as an imperial power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 1676 uprising exposed tensions between frontier settlers and the colonial elite in Virginia.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
America's first constitution, ratified in 1781.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe fueled anti-slavery sentiment.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This agency helped formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This U.S. policy promised to protect Latin American nations from European intervention.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This 1620 agreement established self-government for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1791 addition to the Constitution protects individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in new territories, repealing the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1877 political deal ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This island nation was annexed by the U.S. in 1898 after overthrowing its queen.
What is Hawaii?
This economic theory drove the relationship between Britain and the colonies.
What is mercantilism?
This event showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and led to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
The 1857 Supreme Court case that declared Black people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Laws passed in the South to limit the freedom of Black Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This court case upheld segregation with “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?