Native America & Exploration (1)
This exchange introduced horses, sugar, diseases, and corn between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first representative assembly in English North America, founded in Virginia in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The slogan used to protest Parliament’s taxes after 1763.
What is “No Taxation Without Representation”?
The first plan of government for the United States
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This compromise attempted to settle sectional tensions after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Spain granted these labor systems to settlers, allowing them to extract tribute and labor from Native peoples.
What are encomiendas?
This woman successfully sued for her freedom and challenged racial slavery in colonial Virginia.
Who was Elizabeth Key?
This document listed colonial grievances and announced independence in 1776.
What is the United States Declaration of Independence?
This uprising convinced many Americans that the Articles were too weak.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This act required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
These mixed-race people were born to Spanish and Indigenous parents.
Who were mestizos?
Colonies such as Virginia and South Carolina became known by this term because of their reliance on cash crops.
What are plantation colonies?
This battle is considered the turning point of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice strengthened federal authority through landmark decisions.
Who was John Marshall?
This battle is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This economic philosophy held that colonies existed to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This rebellion in 1676 exposed tensions between frontier settlers and Virginia’s elite.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This alliance provided crucial military and financial aid to the Americans after Saratoga.
What is France?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This congressional act granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
*DAILY DOUBLE* What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This agricultural estate became a major institution in Spanish America.
What is a hacienda?
These colonies developed by Europeans recreated familiar environments and agricultural systems.
What are Neo-Europes?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This system trapped many freedpeople in debt through crop liens and dependence on landowners.
What is sharecropping?