Colonial America
The explorer sailing for Spain reached the Americas in 1492
Who Is Christopher Columbus?
This war between Britain and France ended in 1763 and left Britain with large debts.
What is the French and Indian War (or Seven Years’ War)?
This pamphlet by encouraged colonists to support independence from Great Britain.
What is Thomas Paines Common Sense?
These supporters of the Constitution wanted a stronger national government.
Who are the Federalists?
This 1882 law restricted Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas began after Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1765 law placed taxes on printed materials such as newspapers and legal documents in the 13 colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was America's first national government, created during the Revolutionary War.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These opponents of the Constitution feared a strong central government and pushed for a Bill of Rights.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
These two writers exposed corruption and unsafe conditions in big business and industry.
Who are Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair?
This Native American leader led a war against New England colonists in 1675.
Who is King Philip (Metacom)?
Colonists protested the Stamp Act with the slogan “No taxation without _____.”
What is representation?
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for voting and taxation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This 1794 event tested the power of the new federal government when western farmers protested a tax on whiskey.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This domestic policy focused on regulating corporations, protecting consumers, and conserving natural resources.
What is the Square Deal?
This term refers to the forced voyage that transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
This 1770 event occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The Articles of Confederation were replaced because many Americans believed the national government was too _____
What is weak?
These 1798 laws made it harder for immigrants to become citizens and limited criticism of the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
These were makeshift shantytowns where many Americans lived during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This system treated enslaved Africans as property for life and passed enslaved status to their children.
What is chattel slavery?
During this 1773 protest, colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to oppose British taxation.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
In 1787, delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation but instead created this document.
What is the United States Constitution?
This 1803 purchase from France nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1863 speech by Abraham Lincoln redefined the Civil War as a struggle to preserve a nation dedicated to equality.
What is the Gettysburg Address?