Unit 1 & 2
Transfer of goods/diseases between Old World and New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
War between French and British prior to the revolution
What is the Seven Years' War OR French and Indian War (1754-1763)?
Two goated Union Generals + Friends
Who are Grant and Sherman?
Criticized FDR for not doing more to "share the wealth"
Who is Huey Long?
Name two large-scale wars the US got involved in after the Cold War and before 2006
What are the Yugoslav Wars, Gulf War, Iraq War, and Afghanistan War?
Natives in the Southwest were known for the cultivation of this resource
What is maize (corn)?
Radical founding father that declared "give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
Term for the move toward an interconnected commercial system between North and South
What is the Market Revolution or American System?
Name a famous inventor during the Gilded Age
Who are Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, or Alexander Graham Bell?
Name two welfare programs that were part of the "Great Society"
What are medicare, medicaid, and food stamps?
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
British restriction on settlers going beyond the Appalachians
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Foreign intervention during Jefferson's presidency all the way to the "shores of Tripoli"
What are the Barbary Wars?
People who moved out West to farm on their land
Who are the homesteaders?
Name an explicitly anti-capitalist organization in the USA during the 60s or 70s
Who are the Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Yippies? Sort of AIM too.
War with natives in New England colonies that nearly destroyed the colonies and led to increased American identity
What is King Philip's War (or Metacom's War)?
1787 law that defined the process for making new territories into states
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Transcendentalist author and his famous work criticizing slavery/Mexican-American War
Who is Henry David Thoreau and "On Civil Disobedience"?
Two presidents of the Roaring Twenties
Who are Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge?
Name two specific actions the US took in different Latin American countries during the Cold War
What are the (1) Bay of Pigs/assassination attempts on Castro/Cuban Missile Crisis in Cuba, (2) overthrowing Arbenz/creating a Banana Republic in Guatemala, (3) overthrowing Allende to put Pinochet in power in Chile, and (4) Reagan supporting the Contras in Nicaragua?
The British colony that would be MOST likely to have Catholics in it
What is Maryland?
The Great Compromise during the drafting of the Constitution
What is each state having two Senators and an amount of Congressmen based on their population (resolved tension between Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan)?
Name the political parties of each of the first three party systems
What were the Democratic-Republicans vs Federalists, Whigs vs Democrats, and Republicans vs Democrats?
Helped run settlement homes in Chicago
Who was Jane Addams?
Chronological list of all nine presidents during the Cold War (1947-1991)
Who are Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush?