Period One
In 1492 sailed the ocean blue...
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Pennsylvania was named after this man.
Who is William Penn?
The first five presidents of the United States.
Who were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe?
The time period 1800-1816 is often referred to as this.
What is the Age of Jefferson?
The popular belief that the US had a divine right to extend its power and civilization across the breadth of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Period 1
When is 1491-1607?
Period 2
When is 1607-1754?
Period 3
When is 1754-1800?
Period 4
When is 1800-1848?
Period 5
When is 1844-1877?
This period ends with this event.
What is the founding of Jamestown.
Most European kingdoms had this economic policy in the 17th century.
What is mercantilism?
Following the Sugar, Stamp and Quartering Acts, the Coercive and Quebec Acts were called this.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Napoleon Bonaparte, leader of France, sold this for $15 million in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This treaty ended the War with Mexico in 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
Invented in the 1450's, helped spread knowledge across Europe.
What is the Printing Press?
The Pilgrims drew up and signed this document in 1620 that pledged them to make decisions by the will of the majority.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The British limited settlement west of the Appalachain Mountains with this.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Marbury vs Madison (1803), established this principle for future courts to use to decide constitutionality.
What is judicial review?
California admitted to the Union as a free state, division of the Mexican Cession, no slave trade in the District of Columbia, and a fugitive Slave Law were part of this negotiation.
What is the compromise of 1850?
In 1494 the Pope drew a vertical line north and south on a world map, giving Spain the land on the west and Portugal the east. A year later Spain and Portugal moved the line a few degrees to the left and changed the Line of Demarcation to this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Trade from England to the British colonies to West Africa and back.
What is Triangular Trade?
In 1770, British guards responding to an angry crowd in this Massachusetts town fired into the crowd killing five people. Samuel Adams denounced this calling it this.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Continued violation of US neutral rights at sea and troubles with the British on the western frontier led to this conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
This dispute started at Fort Sumter and ended at Appomattox Court House.
What is the US Civil War?