Period 1
Who were the first immigrants to the Americas? (13,000 years ago)
Clovis people
Who was the Puritan governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
John Winthrop
What is the term for no British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and Indian rights to Western lands would be protected?
Proclamation Line of 1763
What is the power implied in the Constitution that gives federal courts the right to review and determine the constitutionality of acts passed by Congress?
Judicial review
The Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican-American War, and the Gadsden Purchase; are all examples of what?
Manifest Destiny
Who were the mound builders?
Cahokia people of the Mississippi Valley
What was the significance of King Phillip's War in 1675?
It was b/w Wampanoags, Narragansetts, and other Indian peoples, against English settlers. It was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.
What is impressment?
Forcibly enlisting sailors into the British navy against their will.
What treaty ended the war of 1812?
Treaty of Ghent
What was the name of the main Confederate Army led for most of the war by Robert E. Lee?
Army of Northern Virginia
What was the Columbian Exchange?
interchange of diseases, plants, animals, and human cultures b/w New and Old worlds after 1492
In which war did Puritans set houses on fire, destroy a village, kill the people, and sell the survivors into slavery (1636-37).
Pequot War
What are some acts in the 1760s that pushed the people in America to seek revolution?
The Sugar Act of 1764, The Currency Act of 1764, The Stamp Act of 1765, Revenue Act of 1766
Who was the Adam-Onís Treaty between?
US and Spain
What was the main Union Army led by a series of generals?
Army of the Potomac
How many voyages did Columbus take?
4
What was the transit of slaves from Africa to the Americas in mass numbers?
Middle Passage
What was the outcome of the First Continental Congress?
A ban on British imports (and then exports) and a ban on consumption of tea from East India Company
What caused the Panic of 1819?
Banks failed
How was the world described in the 1500s?
Oceanic world
What was the rejected plan in 1754, that called for an intercolonial union to manage defense and Indian affairs?
Albany Plan of Union
What was the title of the book written by Thomas Paine that made points as to why monarchy was always a bad way for ppl to be governed?
"Common Sense"
What compromise made Missouri a slave state but Maine a free state?
Missouri Compromise