Period 1
This agricultural system combined maize, beans, and squash, allowing for nutrient-rich and sustainable harvests.
What is Three Sisters farming?
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Name 3 significant turning points that occur in 1763.
This 1765 act was the first direct tax placed on colonists, sparking widespread protest.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1823 doctrine warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin helped shape Northern attitudes against slavery in the 1850s.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This system, employed by the Spanish, granted land and Indigenous labor to colonists.
What is encomienda?
This 1676 rebellion exposed tensions between frontier farmers and colonial elites in Virginia.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This group enforced boycotts and intimidated tax collectors before the Revolution.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The three central economic reforms championed by Henry Clay in the American System
What are the national bank, protective tariffs, and federal funding for internal improvements?
This senator from Illinois debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 over slavery, helping him gain national recognition despite losing the Senate race.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This 1494 agreement divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The British economic policy that regulated colonial trade for the empire’s benefit.
What is mercantilism?
The 1787 plan that created a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in one house and equal representation in the other.
What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)?
This 1807 law, signed by Jefferson, prohibited American ships from trading with foreign nations in an attempt to avoid war.
What is the Embargo Act?
This 1846 proposal aimed to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, intensifying sectional tensions in Congress.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
A new ship design that allowed European exploration of the African coast and Atlantic Ocean.
What is the caravel?
A haven for Quakers, this colony was known for religious toleration and peaceful relations with Native Americans.
What is Pennsylvania?
Washington's response to this rebellion demonstrated the new Constitution’s strength.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This 1828 policy, promoted by Andrew Jackson, rewarded political supporters with government jobs.
What is the spoils system?
This Southern state was the first to secede from the Union in December 1860, triggering the chain of events that led to the Civil War.
What is South Carolina?
He argued that Indigenous people were fully human and deserved better treatment, sparking the Valladolid Debate.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
This 1649 Maryland law was one of the first examples of religious toleration in the English colonies—though it protected only Christians.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act (Act of Toleration)?
At this 1754 meeting in New York, Benjamin Franklin proposed an early attempt to unite the colonies for defense against the French and Native Americans.
What is the Albany Congress?
This 1832 Supreme Court case ruled that Georgia could not impose its laws on the Cherokee Nation, though President Jackson ignored the ruling.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
In July 1863, Irish immigrant mobs killed over 100 people, targeting African Americans, and destroying property, revealing deep class and racial tensions in the North in response to this act.
What is the Enrollment Act (Conscription Act) of 1863?