Early North America
1500s-1700s
1500s-1700s
Early America
1763-1810s
1763-1810s
Slavery
Market/Industrial Revolution
1800s
1800s
Reconstruction and Reforms
100
What were the motivators that pushed Spain to conquest and colonize the New World?
What is Gold, Glory, and God?
100
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
The invention that catalyzed the growth of the Deep South and slavery
What is the cotton gin?
100
Robber Barons of the Gilded Age defended their wealth with what ideal?
What is Social Darwinism?
100
During the antebellum period, the largest reform movement was what?
What is the abolitionist movement?
200
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown?
200
What was the first political party that rose because of debates over the Constitution?
What are the Federalists and the Democrats?
200
The route in which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas is called what?
What is the middle passage?
200
These two materials spurred the Second Industrial Revolution
What is steel and oil?
200
Under President Rutherford B. Hayes, the Reconstruction "ended" after what event?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
300
How did colonization affect the Native American populations?
What is disease and famine? What is the encomienda system? What is death?
300
What was the event that "started" feelings of anger at Britain from the colonists?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
Which act gave territories Popular Sovereignty over the issue of slavery?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
What system is illustrated in this photo?
What is the Lowell factory system?
300
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau pushed values of ______.
What is Civil Disobedience?
400
How did English policy in regards to interactions with the Natives differ from the Spanish?
The English didn't want to interact with the Natives
400
This was a series of laws meant to combat the Alien & Sedition Acts. These laws were ultimately found unconstitutional as state laws cannot supersede federal laws.
What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
400
How did the Mexican Cession and California lead to tensions between the North and South?
What is the lead to tensions about the expansion of slavery in new territories?
400
How did transportation affect the overall development of industry in the United States?
New roads, canals, and railways greatly expanded economic opportunities. Small farms and rural locations had faster connection to the coast and urban cities. Commercial shipping.
400
Through this system, planters broke up their estates into small units and established on each unit a black or poor white family as tenants
What is sharecropping?
500
This was a form of economic nationalism that sought to increase the power and prosperity of the mother nation through restrictive trade practices. Its goal was to increase the supply of a state's wealth with exports rather than deplete it through its imports.
What is mercantilism?
500
Led by Samuel Adams in Boston. A committee whose goals were to communicate with other assemblies in other colonies, and rally support to the cause of American independence against British rule.
What are the committees of correspondence?
500
The SCOTUS decision that excluded Black Americans from citizenship rights in the United States. The 14th Amendment overturned this decision.
What is the Dred Scott case?
500
The Second Industrial Revolution prompted what controversies regarding the American economy?
What is child labor? What is poor working conditions? What is government regulation in the economy?
500
What is the name of the federal agency created to help the transition from slavery to emancipation?
What is the Freedman's Bureau?