Units 1 & 2 (1491-1754)
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This 1765 law, the first direct tax on the colonies, required printed materials to bear a British tax stamp.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped turn public opinion against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This 1862 act offered settlers 160 acres of free land if they improved it over 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1620 document established self-government among the Pilgrims in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This series of 85 essays advocated for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This term refers to the peaceful transition of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans in 1800.
What is The Revolution of 1800?
This 1863 declaration by Lincoln changed the purpose of the Civil War to ending slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These laws were used in the South to keep Black citizens from voting despite the 15th Amendment.
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
This term describes the biological exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1787 uprising of indebted farmers highlighted the weakness of the central government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This transformation of the U.S. economy involved transportation, communication, and industrial improvements between 1800 and 1848
What is the Market Revolution?
This was the first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln’s election.
What is South Carolina?
This type of overcrowded, unsanitary urban housing became common for immigrants in cities.
What is a tenement?
This 1676 uprising of former indentured servants in Virginia exposed tensions between frontier settlers and the colonial elite.
What is Bacons Rebellion?
This 1763 agreement ended the French and Indian War and ceded French territory east of the Mississippi to Britain.
What is the Treaty of 1763?
This idea held that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1854 law allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska, sparking violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal” segregation laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This economic theory held that a nation's power was based on its accumulation of wealth, especially gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
This 1798 law, passed under John Adams, allowed the president to deport immigrants and criminalized criticism of the federal government.
What are the Alien & Sedition Acts?
This 1820 agreement maintained a balance between free and slave states and limited slavery north of the 36°30′ line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
In this 1857 Supreme Court decision, the Court ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This 1890 federal law aimed to break up monopolies but was initially weakly enforced.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?