Period 1
The arrival of this explorer in the Bahamas in 1492 sparked the Columbian Exchange.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
His pamphlet, published in January 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to declare independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Eli Whitney invention unintentionally worsened the conditions for enslaved people.
What is the cotton gin?
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
The was the event that completed the recovery of the nation from the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
This was the Great Plains tribes' main food source.
What are buffalo?
What was the name of the predominant group in Massachusetts?
Who are the Puritans?
This was the original constitution of the United States, created by the Second Continental Congress.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
This Supreme Court Decision determined that slaves were not citizens protected by the Constitution.
These laws, primarily in the South, enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This Progressive Era president was known for his "Square Deal" and his efforts at trust-busting and conservation.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This was the Spanish system of forced labor that compelled Native Americans to work on plantations and in mines.
What is the Ecomienda System?
This crop saved the Virginia colony economically and became its main export.
What is tobacco?
This chief justice of the Supreme Court opposed Democratic-Republican legislation and enforced federalist policies.
Who is John Marshall?
This was the nickname for Monroe's presidency due to the rise of American nationalism.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
Besides admitting California as a free state, strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, enforcing popular sovereignty in new territories, and settling the Texas boundary, the Compromise of 1850 also did this.
What is the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.?
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the name of the large civilization in Mexico that would be conquered by the Spanish Conquistador Cortez.
What are the Aztecs?
This system gave settlers land in exchange for paying for passage to the colonies.
What is the Headright System?
This British policy prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
This was Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
This is the name for a person who did not want slavery to expand into the newly acquired territories in the West.
What is a Free Soiler?
This is the term for the journalists who exposed problems in American society.
What are Muckrakers?
This intellectual movement challenged traditional notions of morality and emphasized the role of environment and heredity in shaping human behavior.
What is Social Darwinism?
This 1494 agreement, facilitated by the Pope, divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This policy of limited enforcement of British trade laws allowed colonial economies to develop semi-independently prior to 1754.
What is salutory neglect?
This 1794 agreement between the U.S. and Britain attempted to resolve lingering tensions but was highly unpopular among Democratic-Republicans.
What is Jay's Treaty?
This Supreme Court case asserted that the federal government has supremacy over the states.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
This Civil War strategy aimed to divide the Confederacy by gaining control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda plan?
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads.
What is the populist movement?
These were the two prominent events that led the U.S. to enter World War I, which happened in 1915 and 1917.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
The 1680 uprising, often called Popé's Rebellion, drove Spanish settlers out of this modern-day U.S. state for over a decade.
What is New Mexico?
This woman was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her belief that women should have a voice in the church.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This is the name of the successful policy under the Articles of Confederation that organized the region known as the Midwest.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This nickname was given to Jackson’s informal group of advisors who operated outside the official cabinet.
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
These two states were the states from which President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew troops, effectively ending Reconstruction in 1877.
What are Louisiana and South Carolina.
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
These are the three names of the leaders of the Axis Alliance during WWII.
Who are Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hirohito?
This term refers to the racially mixed population in Spanish America, specifically the offspring of Spanish men and Indigenous women.
What are Mestizos?
The British North American colonial region is most similar to the Southern Colonies.
What is the British Caribbean?
In this Federalist Paper, James Madison argued that a large republic would better control factions by diluting their influence across a wider population.
What is Federalist No. 10?
This was the name of the essay written by John O' Sullivan, which introduced the concept of Manifest Destiny.
What is "Annexation"?
The name of the man who was seen as an anti-slavery martyr by the North but a terrorist to slavery in the South.
Who is John Brown?
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on "bread and butter" issues like wages and working conditions for skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This date, known as the "Day of Infamy", was the last straw of the U.S. entry into World War II.
What is December 7th, 1941?