Native America & Colonies
This was the main reason that Native American populations were wiped out by European exploration/colonization.
What is disease/smallpox?
This pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
This territory was acquired from the French by Thomas Jefferson's administration and explored by Lewis & Clark. It would be an initial catalyst of Westward Expansion.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What state was FIRST to secede from the Union after the Election of Lincoln in 1860?
South Carolina
This reform movement sought to make alcohol illegal. It had a very large female membership base.
What is the Temperance movement?
This refers to the system of trading and bartering of goods/resources between Europe, Africa & the Americas. It diversified the types of goods and resources in each region.
What is the Columbian Exchange or Triangular Trade?
The results and debt of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
A widely held belief that moving west and adding new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny?
Give 2 differences between the North and the South that led to the Civil War?
Views on slavery
Economic differences (rural vs. industrial)
State vs Federal Rights
This legislation (law) restricted the immigration of a particular group of immigrants that played a major role in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
These four European countries colonized most of North America (need to get at least 3!)
What are France, Spain, the Netherlands & England?
What were at least TWO of the compromises of the Constitutional Convention and what issue did they address?
The Great Compromise - representation of each state in Congress; created 2 houses of Congress
The Three-Fifths Compromise - how would slaves count towards representation based on population
Electoral College - added as a means to ensure that government has "final say" in presidential elections
Adding the Bill of Rights - satisfied Anti-Federalists concerned about individual freedoms
This was another example of Andrew Jackson challenging boundaries of Checks & Balances when he ignored a Supreme Court decision and forcibly removed several Native American Tribes from the Southeast to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears/Indian Removal Act (1830)?
This was signed by Lincoln to free all enslaved persons in the Confederacy and led to the enlistment of many more African-American soldiers into the Union Army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Which two African-American reformers had philosophical disagreements over whether Civil Rights advancement should be achieved through Higher Education or widespread Vocational training?
W.E.B. DuBois & Booker T. Washington
This rebellion in Virginia resulted in the increase in black slavery and decrease in indentured servitude.
Bacon’s Rebellion
What were at least 3 main events that led to the American Revolution?
Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, French & Indian War
This was one of the first major events of the Women's Rights Movement in which activists came together to advocate for Women's Suffrage & drafted the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This was passed to allow new territories the right of "popular sovereignty" in deciding whether they would be free or slave. But led to rigged elections and intense violence over the issue of Slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Supreme Court opinion that decided in 1898 that "separate but equal" should be allowed to uphold segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This was the most violent conflict between Native Americans (the Wampanoags) and colonists in the New England region caused by mistrust and land disputes. It led to the expansion of English control over Natives.
What is King Philip's (or Metacom's) War?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review (the power for the court to declare laws or government actions as unconstitutional).
What is Marbury v Madison?
Name at least TWO abolitionists of the 1800's and explain one way they advocated for the ending of Slavery or the advancement of African-Americans.
Frederick Douglass - advised Lincoln, wrote his autobiography, public speeches, etc.
William Lloyd Garrison - Published "The Liberator", public speeches, etc.
Harriet Tubman - Helped free hundreds of slave through the Underground Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
John Brown - led raids on Pro-Slavery Ruffians in Kansas & on Harpers Ferry
This was one of the most controversial aspects of the Compromise of 1850 that forced Northerners to return escaped slaves to the South; but also led to the capture and enslavement of many free African-Americans.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Name one of the first organizations that was formed to help workers unionize and advocate for better working conditions.
Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor (AFL), National Labor Union (NLU)