Period 1 (1491-1607)
This agricultural method used by Native Americans involved planting corn, beans, and squash together.
What is the Three Sisters?
Religious revival that increased church membership.
First Great Awakening
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
Executive order freeing enslaved people in Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
Reformers who exposed corruption
Muckrakers
This policy, first put into place by Harry S Truman, aimed to prevent the spread of Soviet influence abroad.
Containment
This labor system granted Spanish settlers the right to demand labor from Indigenous people.
What is the encomienda system?
First representative assembly in English colonies.
House of Burgesses
This rebellion showed the new Constitution’s strength.
Whiskey Rebellion
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?
Amendment abolishing slavery.
13th Amendment
System where political supporters get jobs.
Spoils System
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This massive economic aid package was designed to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II and prevent the appeal of communism.
Marshall Plan
This crop led to soil depletion and expansion in early English colonies.
Tobacco
This document established self-government in Plymouth.
Mayflower Compact
This document established boundaries between the new nation and British North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada down to Spanish Florida.
Treaty of Paris
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
This event was the tipping point that led to the civil war
Lincoln won election/ Election of 1800
These laws, primarily in the South, enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jim Crow laws
This Progressive Era president was known for his "Square Deal" and his efforts at trust-busting and conservation.
Teddy Roosevelt
This Supreme Court case in 1954 declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown V Board of Education
Joint-stock companies funded this early English settlement.
Jamestown
Salutary neglect refers to Britain’s loose enforcement of what?
Trade laws
This war was caused by land disputes and frontier forts between these three groups
French-Indian War
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
Reconstruction plan offering leniency to the South.
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Plessy v Ferguson
Internment of Japanese Americans upheld in this case.
Korematsu v. United States
This event in 1962 brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
Cuban Missle Crisis
Complex Native societies like Cahokia thrived near this river.
Mississippi River
Bacon’s Rebellion highlighted tensions between these two groups.
wealthy, established elite landowners and poor, landless, or frontier settlers
These acts set in place by the British led to the American Revolution (name 3)
Sugar Act - 1764
Stamp Act - 1765
Declaratory Act - 1766
Quartering Act - 1765
Townshend Act - 1767
Tea Act - 1773
Intolerable Acts - 1774
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’
Missouri Compromise
This document signified the end to a war and led to the US gaining more land
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads.
Populist movement
U.S. entry into WWI was influenced by this telegram.
Zimmermann Telegram
Policy easing Cold War tensions.
Détente