Colonialism
Who funded Columbus’s journey to the new world?
What is Spain? (bonus points if you know: King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile)
This 17773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The two first political parties of America?
What are the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans (Anti-federalists)?
The first state to leave the Union?
What is South Carolina?
This industrialist became famous for the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What are considered to be the main three reasons for colonization?
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
Who allied with America to help them defeat Britain?
What is France?
This 1803 purchase would double the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Abraham Lincoln issued this proclamation in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These laws segregated African Americans in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
What was the first British colony?
What battle started the Revolutionary War?
What are Lexington and Concord?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Maddison?
These amendments would be made after the civil war.
What are the 13th-15th Amendments? (Bonus if you can explain what they do. 13: abolished slavery. 14: granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized into the U.S. and guaranteed protection under the law. 15th: stopped voting discrimination based on race
What were labour unions mainly fighting for?
What are better wages, hours, and conditions?
What is the other name for the seven years war?
What is the French and Indian War?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet encouraging independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
The U.S. would come to be united in it’s desire for expansion because of this idea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Popular sovereignty was central to this 1854 Act.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Supreme Court case would establish the idea of “seperate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What were the northern colonies? (Hint there are 4)
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
This 1783 treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The Market Revolution would be fueled by these two things.
What are improvements in transportation and communication. (Bonus points if you can name any of the improvements.)
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This 1890 law attempted to curb the power of big business monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?