Key Terms
The exchange of plants and animals between the New World and Europe following the discovery of America in 1492...
The Colombian Exchange
When did World War 1 start?
July 28, 1914
What are the 2 most significant battles that were the turning point in the Civil War?
The Battle of Gettysburg, and Vicksburg.
What was salutary neglect?
The British policy of letting the colonies ignore most of the British Laws.
Opening Civil War battle...
Fort Sumter
The name given to an eighteenth-century philosophy stressing that reason could be used to improve the human condition...
Enlightenment
When did World War 2 start?
September 1, 1939
What is popular sovereignty?
A controversial political doctrine according to which people of federal territories should choose for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
The most important 18th century colonization movement....
The Great Awakening
A union victory...
Battle of Gettysburg
What was wave of religious revivals that spread across the American colonies during the 1730's and 1740's called?
The First Great Awakening
What was the first country attacked in WW2?
What was the Dred Scott Case and what happened?
A slave who sued for his freedom after his owner took him to Wisconsin where the Missouri Compromise banned slavery. The case made it to the Supreme Court who ruled that Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom because he was not a citizen.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
Bacon's Rebellion was the first rebellion in the American Colonies
Where did the Battle of Bull Run take place?
Virginia
What is the name of the Post-Civil War laws and customs designed to discriminate against African Americans?
Jim Crow Laws
Who did the US sign an alliance with after Hitler died?
Germany
Who was the general in charge of leading the US troops through the end of the war?
Ulysses S. Grant
What were the people who wanted to have separate, and different churches called? Also commonly known as pilgrims?
Separatists
What was the outcome of the battle of Yorktown?
The treaty of Paris was signed.
The economic philosophy of Great Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
Mercantilism
Name at least 1 of the 5 reasons why WW1 began.
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination.
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Define triangular trade.
a trade pattern that linked Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as the continents of America; typically, manufactured goods from Europe were sent to Africa, where they were exchanged for slaves, who were then sent to the Americas, where they were exchanged for raw materials, which were then sent back to Europe.
Which battle has been know to be the bloodiest battle in American history?
Battle of Antietam