Units 1-2 1492-1754
Who was the European explorer that discovered America?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was a war between Britain and France in 1754 over the Ohio Valley Region in North America. It was just one part of a global war that was fought between them.
What is the French and Indian War
This was the party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams
Who are the Federalists
This phrase expressed the popular belief that the United States had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across North America to the Pacific
What is manifest destiny
This was the economic expression that believed government should not interfere with the growth of business
What is laissez-faire
This was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, diseases, and ideas between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange
In an effort to stabilize the western frontier, the British government issued a proclamation that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
This Supreme Court judge expanded the power of the Federal Government and enforced Judicial review
Who is John Marshall
This was a pathway to the Northwestern territory where many Americans rode on wagons and traveled as a caravan.
What is the Oregon Trail
This was an industrialist who monopolized on the production of steel in the United States.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
Who is Hernan Cortez
This was a form of protest where Americans did not purchase anything from the British Empire
What is a boycott
John Calhoun and Henry Clay were given this nickname as young congressmen because they desired to go to war with Britain in 1812
What are the War Hawks
"Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" was the campaign slogan used by this Presidential candidate for the 1844 election.
Who is James K. Polk
This law in 1862 encouraged western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land on the condition that they settle there for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act
In 1630 a large group of Puritans led by John Winthrop set sail for America and created this settlement in New England
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony
These two towns were known to be where the first shots of the American Revolution had occurred in 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord
This is the time period during James Monroe's presidency where only one political party remained in power
What is the Era of Good Feelings
This was the Treaty that ended the Mexican-American war in 1848
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This was a law that targeted a specific race of immigrants. It barred them from coming to the United States and forbid those who were here from becoming citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
In 1619, Virginia's colonists organized this first representative assembly in America
What is the House of Burgesses
This was the last major battle of the American Revolution where Washington's army forced the surrender of British General Charles Cornwallis.
What is the battle of Yorktown
This was a statement on foreign policy that dictated that European nations could no longer colonize the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine
This was part of the Compromise of 1850 that infuriated the northerners because they had to return runaway slaves back to the slave states
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
This law in 1887 was designed to break up tribal organizations and distribute plots of land in order to "civilize" Native Americans in the United States. It granted them citizenship if they stayed on the land for 25 years.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act