Pre 1754
This colony, based on Puritan religious beliefs, was the second permanent British colony to be founded.
What is Plymouth colony?
This 1898 conflict began after the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor and resulted in the United States gaining territories such as Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Many reform movements of the early 19th century, including abolition and temperance, were influenced by this religious movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
These colonial laws in the 17th and 18th centuries defined enslaved people as property, restricted their movement, and denied them legal rights.
What are slave codes?
This system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, exchanging goods, enslaved people, and raw materials during the colonial period.
What is the triangular trade? (Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)
This religious revival created a distinct regional identity in the colonies in the early to mid-18th century.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This 1789 revolution in Europe inspired debates in the United States between supporters like Thomas Jefferson and critics such as Alexander Hamilton.
What is the French Revolution?
This former enslaved man became a leading abolitionist speaker and writer whose activism was strongly influenced by Christian ideals.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This collection of domestic programs helped stimulate the economy and decrease national poverty levels in the 1960s, creating economic and social reform that still exists today.
What is the Great Society?
Invented by Robert Fulton in 1807, this technology allowed for faster upstream river travel, transforming commerce in the United States.
What is the steamboat?
This economic system guided European colonial policy and held that colonies existed primarily to supply raw materials and markets for the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
This U.S. foreign policy strategy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world during the Cold War.
What is the Policy of Containment?
What religion did British colonists flee England to avoid?
Who is the Church of England? (Anglicanism)
The nickname given by Southern critics to the high protective tariff passed in 1828, which angered states’ rights supporters like John C. Calhoun.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
Finished in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, this project united the eastern and western U.S. markets, facilitated migration, and transformed trade across the continent.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The 1676 uprising in Virginia, led by Nathaniel Bacon, involved frontier settlers attacking Native Americans and challenging the colonial government over land policies and political corruption.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This war was fought over the impressment of British soldiers in the colonies and the restriction of trade with France.
What is the War of 1812?
This reformer founded Hull House in 1889 to provide services to immigrants and the urban poor as part of Progressive Era social reform.
Who is Jane Addams?
Passed in 1830 under President Andrew Jackson, this law authorized the relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This early-19th-century transformation of the U.S. economy involved the expansion of factories, canals, roads, and the commercialization of agriculture.
What is the Market Revolution?
Established in 1619 in colonial Virginia, this was the first representative legislative assembly in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Announced in 1823 by James Monroe, this U.S. foreign policy warned European nations against further colonization or interference in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
After facing persecution in the Midwest, this religious group led by Brigham Young migrated to the Great Salt Lake region in 1847.
Who are the Mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)?
This 1890 federal law was created to break up monopolies and limit the power of large corporations; it was later used by presidents like Teddy Roosevelt to regulate big business.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in the 17th century, these laws restricted colonial trade so that certain goods could only be shipped to England or English colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?