Indigenous and Early Contact
This crop, central to many Native societies, was often grown with beans and squash in the “three sisters” system.
Maize (corn)
This region relied heavily on small farms, shipbuilding, and trade rather than cash crops.
New England
This Enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights such as life, liberty, and property
John Locke
This 1765 act taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal documents.
Stamp Act
This alliance provided crucial military and financial support to the American colonies.
French Alliance
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation and created a stronger national government.
Constitution
This 1803 event doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production.
Cotton Gin
This Spanish labor system forced Native Americans to work in exchange for supposed protection and conversion.
Encomienda System
This labor system involved workers contracted for a set number of years in exchange for passage to the Americas.
Indentured Servitude
This religious revival emphasized emotional preaching and individual faith in the 1730s–1740s.
The First Great Awakening
This protest involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
This 1783 treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War.
Treaty of Paris (1783)
These essays were written to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
This conflict was caused in part by British impressment of American sailors.
War of 1812
This 1830 law authorized the relocation of Native Americans and led to the Trail of Tears.
Indian Removal Act
This group of people that lived in the Caribbean devastated by the arrival and takeover by Columbus and the Spanish.
Taino
This rebellion in 1676 exposed tensions between frontier settlers and colonial elites and led to increased laws surrounding slavery.
Bacon's Rebellion
This Enlightenment idea, reflected in the Declaration of Independence, argued that governments derive their power from the people.
This act placed duties on imports like glass, lead, and tea, sparking colonial protests.
Townshend Acts
This concept from Enlightenment philosopher Rousseau and highlighted in the Declaration of Independence describes the relationship between a people and their government.
Social Contract
This principle allows the Judiciary Branch to declare laws unconstitutional.
Judicial Review
This principle asserted US opposition to European colonization in the Americas
Monroe Doctrine
This political party was founded in opposition to Jackson's policies
This Native American political alliance in the Northeast influenced colonial ideas of governance.
Iroquois Confederacy
This economic system emphasized exporting more than importing to benefit the mother country.
Mercantilism
This preacher became one of the most famous figures of the Great Awakening.
George Whitefield (I'll also take Jonathan Edwards)
This British law restricted colonial expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
This concept suggested women played a key role in raising virtuous citizens for the republic.
Republican Motherhood
This 1798 set of laws restricted speech and targeted immigrants, leading to strong opposition.
Alien and Sedition Acts
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison
Jackson justified vetoing the recharter of this institution by arguing it concentrated economic power in the hands of elites.
Second Bank of the United States
In 1680, this was a successful rebellion that drove the Spanish out of modern day New Mexico for over a decade
Pueblo Revolt
This series of 17th- and 18th-century British laws designed to ensure American colonies traded exclusively with Britain to enrich the mother country.
Navigation Acts
This Puritan minister, theologian, and advocate for religious freedom and the separation of church and state, founded the Colony of Rhode Island in 1636 after being banished from Massachusetts
Roger Williams
This 1774 meeting of colonial leaders organized a boycott of British goods in response to the Intolerable Acts.
First Continental Congress
This uprising of farmers highlighted economic instability under the Articles of Confederation.
Shay's Rebellion
This Compromise led to the formation of a two-house legislature at the Constitutional Convention.
Great Compromise
This convention of Federalists opposed the War of 1812 and hurt the party’s reputation.
Hartford Convention
This transportation route connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
Erie Canal
This Mississippian culture city, located near present-day St. Louis, was one of the largest pre-Columbian urban centers in North America.
Cahokia
This policy allowed the colonies to operate with relative autonomy as long as they remained profitable to Britain.
Salutary Neglect
This woman Puritan preacher was excommunicated from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Anne Hutchinson
This meeting attempted to unify the colonies during the French and Indian War but failed.
Albany Plan of Union
This 1787 law established a process for admitting new states while also banning slavery north of the Ohio River.
Northwest Ordinance
These resolutions argued that states could nullify unconstitutional federal laws.
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
This policy attempted to avoid war by banning American trade with foreign nations.
Embargo Act
Jackson pushed for this law to pass through Congress during the Nullification Crisis that would allow him to send the US military into South Carolina.
Force Bill/Act