APUSH 1500's
The Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for widespread European exploration and the eventual conquest of the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This colony, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This 1765 act imposed a direct tax on the colonies and required many printed materials to bear a revenue stamp.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1863 battle, often considered the turning point of the Civil War, was fought over three days in Pennsylvania and ended with a significant Union victory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This 1906 federal law aimed to ensure the safety and purity of the nation's food and drug supply, leading to the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This term is used to describe the exchange of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between the New World and the Old World following Columbus's voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This document signed aboard the Mayflower in 1620, established a self-governing colony based on majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This man was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1830 act authorized the forced removal of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to designated "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1917 diplomatic telegram from the German Empire to Mexico proposed a military alliance against the United States and promised Mexico the territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the United States entered World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Founded in 1565, this city in Florida is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the contiguous United States.
What is St. Augustine?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia was led by a planter against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This 1777 battle is often considered the turning point of the American Revolutionary War because it led to a formal alliance with France.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The set of three amendments to the U.S. Constitution, ratified between 1865 and 1870, abolished slavery, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and protected voting rights regardless of race.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This movement, which gained momentum in the 1920s, advocated for the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This vast and powerful empire, located in modern-day Peru, was conquered by Francisco Pizarro in the 1530s.
What is the Inca Empire?
This 1692 event in Massachusetts involved a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft, resulting in the execution of 20 individuals.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This document, ratified in 1781, served as the first constitution of the United States before being replaced by the current Constitution in 1789.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This battle, fought in 1815 after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, made Andrew Jackson a national hero.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
This New Deal program, established in 1935, provided retirement pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to disabled persons and dependent children.
What is Social Security?
This 1494 agreement between Spain and Portugal, mediated by the Pope, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This war, which took place from 1675-1676, was named after the chief of the Wampanoag people and was one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and New England settlers.
What is King Philip's War?
This series of laws, passed in 1798, included measures that made it harder for immigrants to become citizens and allowed the president to imprison or deport non-citizens who were deemed dangerous.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This 1848 convention in New York marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States and produced the Declaration of Sentiments, which called for gender equality.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?