1500s and before
Who sailed the ocean blue in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Which settlement was the first English colony in North America, and what year was it settled.
Jamestown and 1607
What conflict lasting from 1754 to 1763 between Britain and France ended the era of "Salutary Neglect" and led to new taxes to pay off British war debt?
French and Indian War OR Seven Years War
What land did Thomas Jefferson buy from Napoleon for $15 million.
Lousiana Territory
What cultural figure represented the millions of American women who entered the workforce in factories and shipyards during World War II?
Rosie the Riverter
What are the three sisters crops of Native American societies?
Maize (corn), beans and squash
What was the name of the self-government the Pilgrims created while traveling to the New World?
Mayflower Compact
In the 1730s and 1740s, what religious movement started through the colonies, featuring "New Light" ministers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield?
First Great Awakening
Who is the great compromiser who proposed an agreement in 1820 to keep the balance of power between slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and what is this Compromise called?
Missouri Compromise and Henry Clay
Who was the president that launched a series of programs designed to provide Relief, Recovery, and Reform after the 1929 stock market crash, and what were these called?
Franklin D. Roosevelt and The New Deal
Which two monarchs got married in 1469, creating the modern nation of Spain?
Ferdinand and Isabella
What uprising of indentured servants and poor farmers caused plantation owners to shift to using enslaved Africans for labor?
Bacon's Rebellion
What group dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 barrels of tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act, and what is this event known as?
Sons of Liberty and Boston Tea Party
What law by Andrew Jackson forced the "Five Civilized Tribes" to relocate from the Southeast to territory west of the Mississippi?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Which Supreme Court case overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine, ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
What was the Spanish Labor system in the New World?
Encomienda
What laws required colonial goods to be shipping on English ships and what economic theory does it support?
Navigation Laws and mercantilism
What pamphlet used plain language to argue that it was common sense for the colonies to break away from the British monarchy, and who was the author?
Common Sense by Thomas Pain
Where did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize the first women's rights convention, where they issued the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, and what was the year?
Seneca Falls Conventions and 1848
In what policy did the U.S. pledge to provide economic and military aid to any nation threatened by communism?
Truman Doctrine
Which Spanish priest spoke against the treatment of Native Americans? And what laws were put in place because of this?
Bartalome de Las Casas and The New Laws of 1542
What woman settled Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for having views different than the puritanism church?
Before the Constitution, what document governed the U.S., and why was it replaced in 1789?
Articles of Confederation and because it lacked the power to tax or regulate commerce.
What is the Market Revolution?
The early 19th-century transformation in which people increasingly bought and sold goods rather than making them for themselves, fueled by new inventions like the telegraph and steam engine.
Which book published in 1963 by Betty Friedan is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism by describing "the problem that has no name"?
The Feminine Mystique