Period 1
First city established by Europeans in what would eventually become the United States.
What is St. Augustine, FL?
This economic system was designed to increase gold reserves in the mother country by regulating colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
Country where pamphleteer Thomas Paine originated.
What is England?
Supreme Court Case that established the concept of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Political party formed to support nativist policies in the United States
What is the "Know Nothings"?
Malintzin or La Malinche was both interpreter and consort to _________ who led conquest of Aztec Empire
Hernan Cortez
Puritan author of 'City on a Hill' speech.
Who is John Winthrop?
This philosophy elevated women to the role of "keepers of the national conscience" but also kept women out of public political debate and participation.
republican motherhood
This political party was established largely in opposition to Andrew Jackson's policies.
What is the Whig Party?
Created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education and legal support. Its achievements were uneven and depended largely on the quality of local administrators
Freedmen’s Bureau
Daily Double! Must get all three
The key crops of the Northeast, collectively known as the Three Sisters
beans, squash, corn
Give a specific example of an early democratic institutions in the British colonies, established between 1607 - 1754.
House of Burgesses, MA General Court, Town Meeting
Intercolonial congress summoned by the British government in 1754 to foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against the French.
Albany Congress
Convention of Federalists from five New England states who opposed the War of 1812 and resented the strength of Southern and Western interests in Congress and in the White House.
Hartford Convention
Slogan of the Free Soil Party? It has 4 parts- need at least 3
What is: "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men"?
This region was home to the Mound Builders and settled farming.
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
Daily Double! What were the TWO names of the Wampanoag chief who died at the conclusion of a war he led against the Puritans in order to preserve indigenous sovereignty and territory?
Who was King Philip or Metacom?
Daily Double! The 1st and 9th states to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware and New Hampshire?
The American Colonial Society established this colony as a destination for free Black Americans.
What is Liberia?
Daily Double! Identify the FOUR targets of John Wilkes Booth and conspirators' assassination plot.
Abraham Lincoln, Sec of State William Seward, VP Andrew Johnson, and Gen US Grant
A Spanish colonial labor system that granted colonists control over Native American workers to support agriculture and resource extraction.
encomienda system
A massive Indian rebellion against Spanish control in the 1600s, it was successful at expelling the Spanish from the Southwest for several decades.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Name TWO of the THREE authors of the Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
Daily Double! Two contributing factors to or causes of the War of 1812
What is
Impressment
Occupation of Ohio Valley Forts
Expansion/Desire to limit British influence
Conflict with Natives (w/ British aid)
Policy developed by Gen Benjamin Butler in response to freedom seekers arriving at Union army lines during the Civil War, eventually adopted by Congress, which provided an early step toward Union Emancipation Policies.
What is 'contraband' or 'confiscation'?
Author of this quote: "The cause for which the Christians have slain and destroyed so many and such infinite numbers of souls, has been simply to get, as their ultimate end, the Indians' gold of them, and to stuff themselves with riches in a very few days, and to raise themselves to high estates... owing to the insatiable greed and ambition that they have had, which has been greater than any the world has ever seen before."
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
Name the document "We do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together in a Civil Body Politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid"
Mayflower Compact
Author of this advice to Americans
“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.”
Who is George Washington? (Farewell Address)
Fill in the blank:
"We the Representatives of the people of the ______________, in Convention assembled in order to establish justice ensure tranquility, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging with humility and gratitude the goodness of the sovereign ruler of the Universe affording us an opportunity so favorable to the design and imploring his aid and direction in its accomplishments do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Government of the _________________"
What is the Cherokee Nation? (Cherokee Constitution, 1827)
Name the document:
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
What is the 14th Amendment?