The New World
This agricultural system was employed by North American Indians in which maize, beans, and squash were grown together to maximize yields.
What is three-sister farming?
You may have "heard" of this war that began with the mutilation of a sailor and scaled into a conflict between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean in 1739.
This large acquisition of land in 1803 more than doubled the land area of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This rebellion by an escaped slave inflamed fears in the South of more slave rebellions. It didn't really happen.
What is Nat Turner's rebellion?
This announcement declared all slaves in rebelling states freed, but notably exempted the states in the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This ironic colonial act respected the rights to worship for all Christians, but bestowed on others, including Jews and atheists, the death penalty for living there.
What is the Act of Toleration?
This is the economic theory that closely linked a nation's political and military power to its bullion reserves.
What is mercantilism?
This 1820 deal allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, while carving out the new free state of Maine out of Massachusetts.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was the belief that the United States was destined by God spread its "empire of liberty across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1862 act helped fund the construction of the transcontinental railroad with the use of land grants and government bonds.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
This was the migration of seventy thousand refugees from England to the North American colonies from 1630-42.
What is the Great English Migration?
This battle was the last stand for the British in the Revolutionary War, ending with the surrender of Cornwallis and paving the way for peace.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This showdown between President Andrew Jackson and the South Carolina legislature was the first flirtation of secession from a southern US state, this time over the state considering a federal tariff "null and void".
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This treaty, signed by Great Britain and the United States, provided that both nations would protect the neutrality of Central America.
What is the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty?
This term was given to the period between 1865-1896 by Mark Twain to indicate the fabulous wealth of the period.
What is the Gilded Age?
These often fiery sermons delivered in the colonial era lamented the waning piety of parishioners.
What is jeremiad?
This uprising was the first major test of the federal government's power, as citizens sought to lower taxes and end property foreclosures. It was quickly put down.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This short-lived, speedy mail service relied on lightweight riders galloping between outposts headed out west. It was quickly supplanted by rail.
This declared that since slavery could not exist without laws to protect it, territorial legislatures, and not the Supreme Court, would have the final say on the slavery question.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
This is a mechanism by which one company grants control over its operations, through ownership of its stock, to another company.
What is a trust?
What is Arminianism?
This was a diplomatic conflict between France and the United States when American envoys to France were asked to pay a hefty bribe to meet with the French foreign minister.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This group was founded in 1826 as a part of a growing effort to limit alcohol consumption.
What is the American Temperance Society?
In order to limit red tape in dealing with secessionists during the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended this.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
What is the city beautiful movement?