Exploration/Colonization/American Revolution
Constitution
Early Republic
Jackson/Reform/
Industrialization
Industrialization
Sectionalism/Civil War/Reconstruction
100
Spanish Colonists were known for establishing Catholic Missions in the Americas, and the French colonists focused on this.
What was the French focused on Fur Trading?
100
A portion of the slave population counted for legislative representation.
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
100
Alexander Hamilton's plan to improve the U.S. economy was mainly focused on this one action.
What was the establishment of a national bank?
100
The question of whether a state can overturn a federal law was addressed by this event.
What was the 1832 Nullification Crisis?
100
The potential for new markets, an abundance of inexpensive farmland, and the discovery of gold were the economic motives for this philosophy.
What was Manifest Destiny?
200
This was the first colonial assembly of elected representatives.
What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?
200
In the debate over ratification of the U.S. Constitution, this group would have argued "the existing national government doesn't have the power to perform essential functions."
Who were the Federalists?
200
George Washington defined the domestic authority of the central government by eliminating this domestic problem during his presidency.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
200
The primary reason why many Chinese immigrants came to the United States in the 1850s.
What was to find Gold?
200
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo led to the acquisition of this territory.
What was the Mexican Cession?
300
The profitability of this encouraged the growth of the Colonial Transatlantic Trade.
What was cash-crop agriculture?
300
This principle states that the legislative branch makes laws, the executive branch enforces laws, and the judicial branch interprets laws.
What is separation of powers?
300
The development of the nation's first political parties in the 1790s formed over differences between these two men.
Who were Alexander Hamilton (Federalists) and Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republicans)?
300
This invention helped increase the profitability of slavery.
What was the Cotton Gin?
300
The Union victory here completed the Anaconda Plan and divided the Confederate territory in half.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
400
The reason the British Parliament passed the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Townshend Acts.
What was to recover the cost of defending the colonies and/or pay for war debts from the French and Indian War?
400
George Mason, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were members of this group when it came to the decision to ratify the Constitution.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
400
This speech warned of the U.S. becoming involved in the political affairs of other countries and potential for political parties to divide the country in half.
What was Washington's Farewell Address?
400
This invention from Samuel Morse helped increase the long-distance transmission of information.
What was the telegraph?
400
They provided food, shelter, clothing and established schools in the South during Reconstruction.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
Considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War, an American victory convinced France to ally with the United States.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
500
Requiring individuals to attend religious services is a violation of this amendment.
What is the 1st Amendment? (Freedom of Religion)
500
This law established a process for territories to enter the Union as states and banned slavery from taking place in these new states.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
500
The goal of organizations such as the Daughters of Temperance and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
What was to decrease the consumption of alcohol?
500
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were put in place to weaken the effects of this amendment.
What was the 15th Amendment?