Colonial Era
These are three of the original 13 English colonies (name any 3).
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia?
This is the term used for Americans who refused to join the revolution against Britain.
What are Loyalists?
This is the idea that America has a god-given right to expand from coast-to-coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is Hawaii?
This is one new animal, crop or disease brought to the Americas by European colonists.
What are horses, cows, pigs, wheat, rice, oats, smallpox, bubonic plague, measles, influenza etc (more answers possible)?
This war led to Britain nearly going bankrupt and heavily taxing the American colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
Acquiring this gold-rich territory was President Polk's #1 goal when starting a war with Mexico.
What is California?
War was declared against Spain after this ship was mysteriously destroyed in Havana, Cuba.
What is the USS Maine?
This is the term for the strict sect of Christians that made up the majority of settlers in the Massachusetts colony.
What are Puritans?
Completed in 1825, this major infrastructure project connected the Atlantic Ocean with the Midwest states.
What is the Erie Canal?
Most freed slaves in the South fell into this agricultural system after the passage of the 13th Amendment.
What is Sharecropping?
Meaning to "leave it alone", this economic system demanded that the government reduce regulation and oversight of businesses.
What is Laissez-Faire economics?
Which colonial region had the most women and families move there as settlers?
What are the Northern/New England colonies?
This is the name of ONE of the unpopular laws/tax policies Britain enforced in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, the Sugar Act, the Navigation Act, the Townsend Acts, the Intolerable Acts etc?
This Supreme Court case led to legalized segregation throughout the Southern states.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This former Spanish territory in the Pacific came under American control after the Spanish-American War, despite our promises to grant them independence.
What is the Philippines?
This is the Spanish colonial system of forcing Native Americans to work as laborers.
What is the Encomienda System?
This economic system advocated for by Henry Clay was intended to make the US less reliant on foreign trade.
What is the American System?
This compromise led to the removal of federal troops from the South and ushered in the end of the Reconstruction Era.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Who is William Jennings Bryan?