Period 1
This alliance of Mesoamerican city states were known for their ritual sacrifice and stunning capital city.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This religious movement created a Commonwealth, overthrowing the English crown during the 1650s. They also established several prominent colonies in the New World.
What are the Puritans?
This component of the Treaty of Paris (1763) decreed the western boundary of British colonial settlement in North America.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This power possessed by the Supreme Court of the United States was granted by the landmark case, Marbury v. Madison.
What is judicial review?
This component of the Compromise of 1850 incensed Northern abolitionists and renewed the debate over slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This city state flourished in North America, its population rivaling that of medieval London.
What is Cahokia?
This insurrection united a plethora of indentured servitude, poor whites, and African slaves, redefining racial culture in the English colonies.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This British naval policy forced foreign sailors and colonial subjects into military service.
What is impressment?
This was the political phase between 1817 and 1825, being unique in that one political party dominated Congress and there were few major political disagreements.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This bloody four year paramilitary conflict occurred over the issue of popular sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This city is the oldest European-founded city in North America.
What is St. Augustine?
This uprising was the largest slave revolt in the English colonies before the American Revolution.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This concept was the key cultural concept for all women in America after the Revolutionary War.
What is republican motherhood?
This foreign policy shaped American diplomatic relations for decades, firmly warning the rest of the rest of the world not to interfere in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This political agreement ended federally-enforced Reconstruction in the occupied South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was the first tribe that made contact with Christopher Columbus.
What are the Tainos?
This was an early attempt to unify the British Thirteen Colonies into a single political entity, predating the American Revolution.
What is the Albany Plan?
This book strongly influenced the economic policies of Secretary-Treasurer, Alexander Hamilton.
What is the Wealth of Nations?
This meeting was the functional end of the Federalist Party, as during the meeting, key leaders of the Federalist Party discussed radical topics such as New England’s secession and nullifying federal laws.
What is the Hartford Convention?
This was the historic boundary on the east coast that demarcates the free North and the slave South.
What is the Mason Dixon Line?
This plantation system was employed by the Spanish Empire to settle the New World.
What is the encomienda?
This document is the first written constitutional framework in North America.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This treaty secured the border between Florida and Georgia, and opened the Port of New Orleans to American commerce.
What is Pinckney’s Treaty?
This land purchase from Mexico finalized the border between America and Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This development incensed suffragists and soured relations between black civil activists and female civil activists.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?