Period 1
In 1492, this man arrived to the New World>
Who was Christopher Columbus?
In 1607, this man would lead the newly established Jamestown Colony.
Who was John Smith?
This year saw both the end of the French and Indian war, and a proclamation saying colonists could not go past the Appalachians?
What is 1763?
The name of the time from 1816 to 1824, due to there being only one political party, with the U.S. having "unity"?
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
In 1854, a new territory was opened to popular sovereignty, and the whole place seemed to be at war during the time called _________.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This was the name of a period of rapid exchange of plants, animals, foods, communicable diseases, and diseases?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
These acts passed between 1651 and 1673, required colonists to buy goods only from England, sell certain of their products only to England, and import non-English goods via English ports and pay a duty on those imports
What were the Navigation Acts?
This sentiment thought women were to be the teachers and producers of virtuous male citizens
What was Republican Motherhood?
The decision in this case established one of the most important principles of the Supreme Court: judicial review
What was Marbury v Madison (1803)?
This case saw the court rule that enslaved people were property, not citizens, and that Congress couldn't regulate slavery in the territories.
What was Dred Scott v Sandford?
In the Columbian Exchange, name: two things from New to Old, and two things from Old to New.
New to Old: corn, potatoes, chocolate, tomatoes, avocado, sweet potatoes.
Old to New: horses, pigs, rice, wheat, grapes
This colony was a famous haven for Catholics, and was named for a key Catholic figure.
What is Maryland?
These acts allowed the government to forcibly expel foreigners and to jail newspaper editors for “scandalous and malicious writing”
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This practice, started by John Adams, saw judges be appointed by the president on the last day of his term.
What was the appointment of Midnight Judges?
This compromise admitted California as a free state and stronger fugitive slave law enacted, created the territories of Utah and New Mexico, left status of slavery up to each territory to decide, and Abolished slave trade, not slavery itself, in Washington, D.C.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This group of people first arrived when colonists from the Caribbean settled the Carolinas.
Who were enslaved Africans?
This was a self-made, self-educated man who typified Enlightenment ideals in America who as a printer's apprentice that became a wealthy printer and respected intellectual; he also created Poor Richard's Almanack which remains influential to this day
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This event, on March 5, 1770, a mob pelted a group of soldiers with rock-filled snowballs; the soldiers fired on the crowd, killing five; the propaganda campaign that followed suggested that the soldiers had shot into a crowd of innocent bystanders
What was the Boston Massacre?
Joseph Smith formed the _______ in 1830. Smith's preaching, particularly his acceptance of polygamy, drew strong opposition in the East and Midwest, culminating in his death by a mob while imprisoned in Illinois. They then moved to Utah.
What the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or Mormon church?
This man's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution sparked northern abolitionist support.
Who was John Brown?
Under this system, the Spanish crown granted colonists authority over a specified number of natives, where colonists were obliged to protect those natives and convert them to Catholicism in exchange for the natives' labor farming/mining.
What was the Encomienda System?
This was a wave of religious revivalism in the colonies and Europe (1730s-1740s), led in the U.S. by Congregationalist minister Jonathan Edwards and Methodist preacher George Whitefield
What was the First Great Awakening?
This battle occurred on October 17, 1781, and was the symbolic end to the American Revolution. Major British general, Cornwallis, was surrounded by the French navy and George Washington’s troops, and surrendered
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
Who was instrumental in pushing for public education and education reform in general. He lengthened the school year, established the first "normal school" for teacher training, and used the first standardized books in education.
Who was Horace Mann?
This was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that declared the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory.
What was the Emancipation Proclamtion?