Early Colonial America
This is the term used to describe the post-1492 movement of goods, crops, animals, people, and ideas between the New World and the Old World. Largely, this benefitted the Europe, but did major harm to Africans and Indigenous Americans.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1755 war led to massive British debts. In order to pay for the war Britain enacted a series of taxes with increase enforcement, which ultimately brought about the Revolution. Incidentally, this war also bankrupt the French, ultimately leading to the French Revolution decades later.
What was the Seven Years War (or French and Indian War)?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave a speech at this convention. Here's a quote from that speech: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This battle was the "bloodless beginning to the bloodiest war in American history."
What is (The Battle of) Fort Sumter?
Name one mammal that lays eggs.
I'm pretty sure the only correct answer is platypus.
This 1676 rebellion highlighted early tensions between the wealthy, appointed elites in the East and poorer settlers on the borderlands. The tensions ultimately led to an increase in the Atlantic Slave Trade, as slave labor became a valuable tool in creating distinct social classes.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
These laws were passed in the mid-17th century (1600's). They were based in mercantile economic philosophy and aimed to limit colonial trade in ways that ensured that colonial production would only benefit Britain. Due to salutary neglect, colonists became accustomed to these laws being poorly enforced.
What were the Navigation Acts?
This Supreme Court decision established the idea of judicial review - the ability of the courts to rule on the Constitutionality of any law.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
In this infamous Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that "the Negro has no rights which the White man is bound to respect," precipitating fears from abolitionists that slavery would expand unbounded and existing Northern protections could be nullified by this sweeping decision.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
This group of legislators proposed full voting and civil rights for freedmen with strict requirements for Confederate states to reenter the Union.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This labor system took root in the Caribbean and South America. It was essentially a feudal system in which the Spanish crown granted land rights to nobles, nobles paid a tribute to the crown, and the nobles violently enslaved indigenous populations.
What was the encomienda system?
The Boston Tea Party was largely carried out in response to the Tea Act in 1773, and it preceded the Intolerable Acts that ultimately brought on the war. This group is credited with carrying out the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This deal temporarily settled the debate on how to expand new territories by admitting Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and banning slavery in any territories or states north of the 36/30 line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This man planned to lead a slave rebellion across the Southern states, but he and his small militia got pinned down at Harper's Ferry. He would hang for it, but his hanging was called "the comet of the Civil War" by Herman Melville.
Who is John Brown?
He wrote the essay "Civil Disobedience" in order to protest the Mexican-American War and the expansion of slavery. In it, he details not paying his taxes so as not to feed the machine of war, and his subsequent night in jail for not paying. This work became a cornerstone for peaceful protest worldwide.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This treaty, brokered by the Pope, divided the world between competing imperial powers. Portugal got Africa and Brazil, while most of the New World went to Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This is the Battle that ultimately convinced the French to side with the colonists, tipping the balance of the war to the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This is the name we give the James Monroe's declaration that European powers should not try to colonize the Western hemisphere anymore.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This proclamation in 1863 officially banned slavery in all Confederate states, but it notably left slavery intact in border states that stayed loyal to the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1791 rebellion was in response to an excise tax placed on a certain booze. It was an early test of the Federal government's ability to enforce their laws, and they proved able to in a way that they were unable to in Shays Rebellion.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This was an agreement made by 41 of the 50 males aboard the Mayflower, and it established early democratic ideas about how to govern in the New World.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The Articles of Confederation was the first functioning governing document in the United States, but it ultimately failed due to its overreliance on state power and the limited power of the federal government. Ultimately, this rebellion demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays Rebellion?
This president strongly opposed the South Carolinian stance that they could nullify federal laws through state laws. He pushed for federal troops to be able to enforce federal laws, but ultimately was able to strike a deal to end the Nullification Crisis.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Toward the end of the war, General Sherman led 60,000 Union troops on a march from this city to this other city (265 miles), burning everything along the way (houses, cotton fields, barns). This became known as Sherman's March.
What is Atlanta to Savannah?
This is the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
What is Bishkek?