Colonies
First permanent English colony in North America?
Jamestown
This war removed the threat of the French Empire in North America after 1763.
The French and Indian War
The name of the political party that supported the first two presidents, Washington and Adams.
The Federalists.
In this outdated conflict, the United States went to war over the question of the impressment of American citizens by the British Royal Navy.
War of 1812
The Confederates fired on the flag of the United States of American in this fateful battle that started the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Reason for founding Jamestown?
Profit. Jamestown was founded by a private joint-stock company called the Virginia Company.
In response to this tax on paper goods, American colonists organized the first colony-wide economic boycott.
Stamp Act
President Washington marched armed troops out to western Pennsylvania to put down this spirited tax revolt.
Whiskey Rebellion
This construction project was dubbed Clinton's Folly for its expense, but when completed led to the settlement of the midwest and the growth of New York as a port city.
Erie Canal
This constitutional amendment ended slavery forever in the United States
13th
First permanent colony in New England?
Plymouth (1620)
Parliament enacted the Intolerable Acts in response to this act of colonial protest.
Boston Tea Party
During the Wars of the French Revolution, this international agreement suggest that President Washington had sided with the hated British.
Jays Treaty
This unburdened system of buying and selling relies on private property and the unfettered operations of the marketplace
free enterprise system
This battle included the deadliest single day of combat during the war, including 23,000 dead
Battle of Shiloh
What motive did the settlers at Plymouth have for founding a new colony?
Freedom of worship. Puritans sought to escape the reach of the Anglican Church.
This battle was an important American victory in the Revolution because it led to treaties and formal recognition by France.
Battle of Saratoga
This political party was the first to form an organized opposition to the presidencies of Washington and Adams.
Democratic Republican Party
This intangible latitude was a key part of the sectional settlement called the Missouri Compromise.
36 30 Line
One of only two Civil War battles that took place in the North, this Union victory allowed Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Antietam
This was the earliest English colony founded in Virginia but it mysteriously disappeared after 1587.
Roanoke.
This battle led to the surrender by the British and formal recognition of the independent United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
Yorktown
This outsized agreement made during the Constitutional Convention led to the creation of a bicameral legislature in the federal government.
The Great Compromise
This landmark statement of American foreign policy made by the third president in the Virginia Dynasty warned European powers that the Americas was off limits to colonization after the democratic revolutions in Mexico and Columbia.
Monroe Doctrine
He was the first African American to serve in Congress in the aftermath of the Civil War
Hiram Revels