These two products were the dominant crops in the southern economies prior to cotton.
What is rice and tobacco?
100
The 1970s saw the emergence and popularity of this awful music and style. This was glamorized in the film Saturday Nite Fever.
What is disco?
100
This term describes the British period where Britain ignored the colonies and left them to themselves. This period and policy ended with the French and Indian War.
What is salutary neglect?
100
DAILY DOUBLE...This would determine if a mixed race child was a slave or not.
What is the condition of the mother?
100
This woman created Hull House, the most famous settlement house in America.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
This river became the unofficial border between southern slave states and the north.
What is the Ohio River?
200
Nixon concluded this agreement with the Soviets thereby reducing the arms race and the potential proliferation of nukes.
What is SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?
200
This colonist helped start the French and Indian War with his actions around FT. Necessity.
Who is George Washington?
200
This year saw the House of Burgesses established and the first African slaves brought to America.
What is 1619?
200
This WWII conference has been called a sell out to Stalin. The fate of Eastern Europe was somewhat determined at this conference of the big three.
What is YALTA?
300
These proposals by Madison and Jefferson proposed that state's should be able to declare federal laws null and void. This doctrine of nullification became a major argument for states rights.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
300
This group imposed an oil embargo on the USA, in protest of the US support of Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
What is OPEC?
300
The French and Indian War ended with the British acquisition of this French North American Colony.
What is Canada?
300
This officially outlawed slavery in all of the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
This man's Frontier Thesis argued that the West had defined the American character and that the frontier was no longer.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
400
This was the first southern settlement by the British.
What is Jamestown?
400
All US presidents in the 1970s followed this Nixon policy to reduce tensions with the Soviet Union.
What is Detente?
400
This is the European name for the French and Indian War.
What is the Seven Years War?
400
This slave, escaped to freedom, published his autobiography and later advised President Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
DAILY DOUBLE...This man argued that government must pick up the slack when businesses do not spend enough. Deficit spending is OK when trying to climb out of a depression.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
500
Most immigrants to the south were indentured servants. Due to this rebellion, southern plantations began importing more slaves and less indentured servants to work the fields.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
500
President Carter was often viewed as a weak president due to this 444 day crisis.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
500
This 1763 Indian uprising convinced the British to try to prevent further settlement of the Ohio frontier.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
500
This creation of the Articles of Confederation, set up the Ohio River as the boundary of slavery, thereby preventing the spread of slavery.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
This man wrote the Long Telegram warning of Soviet expansionist ideas and proposing containment.