Colonial America
This labor system in early Virginia relied on contracts where workers exchanged labor for passage to America.
What is indentured servitude?
This 1763 British law prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
How did Shay's rebellion reveal weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation?
It revealed the country's inability to raise a standing army and to handle economic crises that led to the taxes on farmers.
This early 1800s religious revival movement inspired major reform efforts such as abolition and temperance.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This 1861 Confederate attack on a federal fort in South Carolina began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This colony, founded by Roger Williams after being banished for religious dissent, became known for religious toleration and separation of church and state.
What is Rhode Island?
This 1774 meeting united colonial resistance by coordinating economic boycotts and collective responses to British taxation.
What is the First Continental Congress?
What were the 2 causes of the War of 1812?
Impressment and Trade Restrictions during Napoleonic Wars.
This 1848 convention in New York issued a declaration demanding expanded political rights for women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to preserve sectional balance.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1619 governing body in Virginia was the first representative legislature in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This 1776 document argued that governments derive power from natural rights and can be overthrown if they fail to protect them.
What is the Declaration of Independence (adi youre a bum)
This group of people, led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, strongly supported the War of 1812.
What were the War Hawks?
This abolitionist newspaper demanded immediate emancipation without compensation.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in new territories to decide slavery through popular sovereignty, leading to violence in Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A devastating war between Native Americans led by Metacomet and English settlers in New England in 1675.
What is King Phillip's (Metacom's) War?
This 1777 battle marked the turning point of the Revolution by convincing France to ally with the colonies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1794 uprising tested whether the federal government could enforce taxation within its own territory.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This intellectual movement emphasized nature, self-reliance, and intuition, associated with Emerson and Thoreau.
What is Transcendentalism?
This Supreme Court ruling declared that African Americans were not U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This 1676 uprising of frontier farmers exposed tensions between western settlers and the colonial elite in Virginia.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This Enlightenment principle states that government legitimacy depends on the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Supreme Court case established implied powers through the Necessary and Proper Clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This reform movement aimed to reduce alcohol consumption due to its perceived link to poverty and social disorder.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This Union general’s campaign used total war tactics to destroy Southern infrastructure during the Civil War.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman? (Sherman's March to the Sea)