Unit One
(1491-1607)
(1491-1607)
The modern-day countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica were originally referred to as this larger geographic region that included several indigenous civilizations.
What is Mesoamerica?
Juan Ponce de Leon claimed this North American land for Spain in 1513.
What is Florida?
Known in Europe as the Seven Years' War, this war, fought between France and England from 1754 to 1763, determined which country would take possession of the North American continent.
What is the French and Indian War?
Constitutional interpretation embraced by Thomas Jefferson that he veered from when purchasing the Louisiana Territory in 1803.
What is strict interpretation?
Famous site "remembered" as the start of the Texas Revolution in 1836.
What is the Alamo?
This Mesoamerican civilization developed a 365-day calendar as well as a hieroglyphic writing system.
Who were the Mayas/Mayan civilization?
Located along the St. Lawrence River and founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608, this was the first French settlement in America.
What is Quebec?
Representatives from nine of the 13 colonies participated in this first colonial-wide representative body that met in New York in 1765 to protest against "taxation without representation."
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
Supreme Court case that first established the Court's power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
River disputed as the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico where the Mexican-American War began.
What is the Rio Grande?
Tenochtitlan was the capital of this empire/civilization.
Who were the Aztecs?
System first established in the Virginia colony to recruit white settlers by providing 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the cost of passage for a settler to the colony.
What was the headright system?
An important Enlightenment idea developed by John Locke, and expounded upon by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, advocating governments created by the agreement of the people for the protection of their natural rights.
What is the social contract?
Member of the House of Representatives and later a senator from Kentucky who devised the American System and later the Missouri Compromise.
Who was Henry Clay?
Largest European immigrant group to immigrate to the U.S. in the 1840s and that faced the greatest discrimination from nativists.
Who were the Irish?
With its political and military center at Cuzco, this civilization developed into the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas.
What is the Inca empire?
Leader of the 1000 Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Who is John Winthrop?
Turning point battle of the American Revolution that led to America's formal alliance with France.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
President most associated with the "Era of Good Feelings."
Who is James Monroe?
Sponsor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and later presidential candidate in 1860 who favored popular sovereignty for deciding the issue of slavery in the western territories.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Line of demarcation, and treaty agreed upon by Spain and Portugal in 1494, granting lands west of the line to Spanish explorers and those east of the line (including Brazil) to the Portuguese.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Two Puritan dissidents who founded what became the colony of Rhode Island by 1644.
Who were Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
First Secretary of State of the United States appointed by President George Washington.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Election known for the "corrupt bargain" that awarded the presidency to the John Quincy Adams.
What is the election of 1824?
Bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War that prompted Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?