Colonization
Non-Whites in the Americas
War
The Republic
100
The European colonizers who established the fur trade.
Who are the French?
100
The journey of slaves packed onto cargo ships like the one seen here was known as this...
What is the Middle Passage?
100
The French and Indian War led Great Britain to pass this legislation forbidding the colonists from moving into the western territory.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
After the Revolutionary War, most delegates agreed that this governing document needed to be replaced with a constitution.
What is/are the Articles of Confederation?
200
The religious group who established a theocracy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they were led by governor John Winthrop; wanted to purify the Anglican Church.
Who are the Puritans?
200
Constitutional compromise that counted a percentage of slaves towards the overall population of the states.
What is the 3/5 (compromise)?
200
This document officially declared the position of the colonists about one year into the American Revolution.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
What addition to the Constitution was considered a compromise in oder to convince Anti-federalists to ratify the Constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights/ first ten amendments?
300
The legal system that allowed the Spanish to force Native Americans into labor and low status.
What is the encomienda (system)?
300
During the early years of colonization, they were enslaved by the Spanish.
Who are the Native Americans/American Indians?
300
Thomas Jefferson passed this economic act to punish Great Britain and France for blockading American trade and forcing the US into their conflict.
What is the Embargo Act?
300
The two plans were used to solve the government issue of representation and was settled by the Great Compromise.
What are the Virginia and New Jersey plans?
400
The first permanent English colony established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
400
As slavery was disputed in America during the early 1800s, Congress implement this 1820 agreement to appease the states; one that Thomas Jefferson called, "a wolf by the ears...."
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This war, named for the year it began, was known as the "second American revolution" and led to the "era of good feelings."
What is the War of 1812.
400
These two political groups debated the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
500
The country where many colonists were coming from to find religious freedom from the Anglican Church.
Where is England?
500
Andrew Jackson pushed out the Native Americans by signing this federal law into action in 1830.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
500
This American president warned against creating political alliances or getting involved in foreign conflicts.
Who is George Washington?
500
This crisis was initiated due to a disagreement over states rights between South Carolina and Andrew Jackson and ended with the Compromise Tariff of 1833.
What is the Nullification Crisis