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Pre-Columbian & Early Exploration
Early Colonization
Road to Revolution
The Revolution & Articles
Building a New Nation
100
The Great Ice Age played a part in American history by allowing early peoples to cross this.
What is a land bridge connecting Eurasia and North America?
100
This provides the historical significance of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay.
What is their moral and spiritual qualities?
100
This economic policy severely restricted the ability of American colonists to trade with anyone but England.
What was mercantilism?
100
This was an advantage of the colonists at the beginning of the Revolutionary war.
What were outstanding civilian and military leaders?
100
The absence of this was alarming to opponents of the Constitution.
What was a bill of rights?
200
The origins of the modern plantation system can be found here.
What is the Portuguese slave trade?
200
This was the first of many miniature parliaments to spring up in the American colonies.
What was the House of Burgesses?
200
This year marked a turning point in colonial-British relations, as the colonies became more confident and the British needed more money.
What was 1763 (end of the French and Indian War)?
200
This was America's first entangling alliance.
What is France?
200
Alexander Hamilton believed this would motivate people to work harder to make the nation a success.
What is a limited national debt?
300
This settlement was most influential for United States History.
What is Jamestown (1607)?
300
This was a result of Bacon's Rebellion.
What was planters looking for less troublesome workers?
300
Before 1763, Britain took this policy towards the American colonies, essentially ignoring them and letting them govern themselves.
What is statutory neglect?
300
The American Revolution emphasized equality, but this is one area where inequality still existed after the war.
What is equality between men and women?
300
This was the immediate cause of the Quasi War between the United States and France.
What is the XYZ Affair?
400
This motivated the English to colonize North America.
What is unemployment, thirst for adventure, religious freedom, or desire for markets?
400
This was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people, which split colonial churches into several competing denominations.
What was the Great Awakening?
400
This phrase was a protest against Parliament's power to levy revenue-raising taxes on the colonies.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
400
Congress was unable to do this under the Articles of Confederation.
What is enforce a tax-collection program?
400
These acts were designed to silence opponents of the Federalists.
What were the Alien & Sedition Acts?
500
The defeat of this ensured English dominance of the North Atlantic.
What is the Spanish Armada?
500
This practice laid the foundation for a new multicultural American identity.
What was intermarrying between different ethnic groups?
500
Passage of these acts convinced many colonists Britain was trying to take away their historic liberty.
What are the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act?
500
This treaty signed in this year established peace between the United States and Britain and gave the United States land up to the Mississippi.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1783?