Glory, God, Gold, and Syphilis
What is Turtle Island?
This founding document is not a legal document, but rather a statement of purpose and an enumeration of the ideals of its writers.
This founder faced serious plagiarism allegations before famously dying on July 4, 1826.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This type of source is one that was produced at the time being studied.
What is a primary source?
The Intolerable/Coercive Acts were passed as a response to this act of Colonial resistance.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This event in Philadelphia was extremely culturally important despite being a significant financial burden on the US (which WAS in a recession).
What is the Centennial Exposition?
This document was created as a compromise between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists as a means to ratify the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This President succeeded Abraham Lincoln and offered a lenient path to reconciliation for the South following the Civil War
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This term describes the process of defining the chronological and thematic bounds of certain historical eras.
What is periodization?
This uprising was the result of a new federal tax proposed by Alexander Hamilton to help pay off Revolutionary War debts.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This process describes the increasing number of options in terms of religious association during the Second Great Awakening.
What is democratization?
This famous inscription was originally created to promote colonial unity during the French and Indian War, but was later repurposed as a rallying cry of the Revolution.
What is "Join or Die?"
This founder once said that he would be able to navigate his way across the continent in the dark by only the light of his own burning effigies.
Who is John Jay?
Historians analyze this aspect of written and verbal sources, which combines elements of persuasion and various linguistic tools.
What is rhetoric?
Fearing the creation of a government too similar to a monarchy, this political party advocated for a weaker central government.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
It was after this battle that George Washington expressed concern over the loss of troops due to poor sanitation and syphilis that was spread in New York's brothels.
What is the Battle of Long Island?
This document was the last attempt at a peaceful, diplomatic reconciliation between the Colonies and Britain before the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This forgotten midnight rider outlasted Paul Revere to finish the route to Lexington and Concord.
Who is Dr. Samuel Prescott.
Historians debate which of these TWO terms best describes Indian Removal.
What are genocide and ethnic cleansing?
This was a way that the women of colonial New England participated in and supported the boycott of imported textiles.
What is the Homespun Revolution?
Although the Constitution is a Godless document, this Presidential Address invoked God frequently as a rhetorical argument.
What is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
This bill, which banned Americans from publishing malicious opinions of the US government, was signed by President John Adams.
What is the Sedition Act of 1798?
This Cherokee scholar invented a syllabary for the Cherokee language, which is now named after him.
Who is Sequoyah.
Historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the primary force shaping American development was the constant need to explore new...
What are frontiers?
This school of thought, popularized by Thomas Jefferson, was used to justify the oppression of Black Americans and the opposition to their rights.
What is scientific racism?