Colonial America
As Europeans traversed the Atlantic, they brought with them plants, animals, and diseases that changed lives and landscapes on both sides of the ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that convinced many colonists to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
The United States acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines as a result of this conflict.
What is the Spanish American War?
What is the fear of Communism?
More actively favored assimilation by converting American Indians to Christianity and intermarrying.
What are the Spanish?
This meeting "Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise."
What is the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?
This political party sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization, urbanization, political corruption and inequality.
What is the Progressive/Bull Moose Party?
His election is contributed to an increase in political activism among evangelicals.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The legislative body of colonial Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This Supreme Court decision invalidated the Missouri Compromise, describing the Compromise as a limitation on slave owners' property rights that exceeded the U.S. Congress' constitutional powers.
What is Dredd Scott v. Sandford?
This event immediately increased enthusiasm for upholding the freedoms outlined by FDR in his "Four Freedoms Speech."
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
He warned against the growing "Military Industrial Complex" during the Cold War.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Sought to organize a system of rules and order in the Plymouth colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The amendments which gave birth to a new freedom for African Americans after the Civil War?
What are the 13, 14, 15th Amendments?
In 1882, it was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
The spread of computer technology and internet use contributed to this phenomenon in the late twentieth century.
What is Globalization?
An armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeast and the English New England Colonies. By the end of the war, the Wampanoags and their Narragansett allies were almost completely destroyed.
What is King Philip's/Metacom's War?
Concerns over the increased power of the federal government led to this violent tax protest in 1791.
An agrarian political party in the United States in the late 19th century that advocated for the free coinage of silver.
This group's Port Huron Statement challenged racial and economic inequality.