Colonial America
The crop that basically saved Jamestown’s economy.
What is tobacco?
1770 event used by colonists to turn public opinion against the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Ruthless, rich business leaders were called this.
What are robber barons?
Policy that focused on stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Religious group that settled Massachusetts Bay for “purity.”
Who were the Puritans?
July 4, 1776: This document made the break from Britain official.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Lincoln’s 1863 order that turned the war into a fight to end slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
1882 law that banned immigration from China.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
U.S. gave billions to help Europe rebuild after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
First representative assembly in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The final major battle of the war, with a big assist from France.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Constitutional amendment that officially ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
1894 railroad strike that got shut down by federal troops.
What is the Pullman Strike?
1962 nuclear standoff between the U.S. and USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1676 rebellion showing poor settlers were tired of elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
The treaty that officially ended the war and gave us independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Laws passed in the South right after the war to restrict Black rights.
What are Black Codes?
Giving jobs to political supporters, no matter if they were qualified.
What is the spoils system?
Senator who started a communist “witch hunt” in the U.S.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Economic theory where colonies exist to make the mother country richer.
What is mercantilism?
America’s first government system, a super weak federal power.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This deal ended Reconstruction and pulled Union troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
1890 law meant to limit monopolies and break up trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Alliance created in 1949 to defend against Soviet threats.
What is NATO?