Early Americas
This mas was credited as the first European in the America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Name one colony from each region; New England, Middle and Southern.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine
New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
This man was appointed as the Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army ahead of the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
What is the Louisiana Territory?
This movement across America, which called for slavery to be outlawed.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
What is the Clovis Point?
These early colonial Americas believed in equality of all individuals regardless of race, gender, or social status. Promoted peaceful coexistence with Native American tribes, and questioned slavery.
Who were the Quakers
This document, proclaimed the colonies right to self-governance and articulated the fundamental principles of liberty and equality.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What were some weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
lacked power to regulate trade, levy taxes, or maintain a good foreign policy.
Texas sought annexation into the United States. But Mexico opposed this move, leading to armed conflict. This war was fueled by disputes over the Texas-Mexico border, and American desires for territorial expansion.
What is the Mexican War?
The Global Transfer of living things between the Americas, Europe and Africa. Began the widespread transfer of plants, animals, microbes, diseases, people, and ideas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This individual was sent by the Virginia Governor to reclaim the land to the British which was overrun by the French.
Who is George Washington?
This document, signed in 1783, officially ended the Revolutionary War, recognizing the sovereignty of the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
People that advocated for a strong central government and supported the ratification of the Constitution.
Who is Federalist?
BONUS
Coach Sturdivant's Fiancée's name.
McKenzie
Indigenous people who built a vast, sophisticated empire, dominating much of present day central and southern Mexico. Beginning in the 1200s and lasting until the arrival of the Europeans in the 1500s
Who were the Aztecs?
This historic moment in early American history, colonists disguised as Native Americans, dumped and entire shipment of tea into the Harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
During this famous battle in 1781, combined American and French forces, trapped British General Cornwallis, forcing his surrender.
What is the Siege of Yorktown?
This expedition of newly acquired lands from the Louisiana Purchase, with the help of Sacagawea.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
This legislation authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to areas west of the Mississippi River, primarily in present-day Oklahoma.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
What were some negative effects of European Arrival in the Americas
Demographic catastrophe; decline in indigenous population due to diseases. Cultural and Societal Disruption; European colonization led to the destruction of many indigenous cultures, religions, and traditions.
French and the Colonies were both expanding their territories in North America, and began to battle over land in the Ohio River Valley, this led to this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
During this battle in 1777, Americans secured the French support for the American cause against the British.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
An era when America was overtaken by the idea of expansion. Americans thought it was their preordained right to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War".