APUSH 1400-1500's
The Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for widespread European exploration and the eventual conquest of the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This colony, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This man was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1830 law forced Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States and moved them to a designated "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This New Deal program, established in 1935, provided retirement pensions and unemployment insurance, among other things.
What is Social Security?
This term is used to describe the exchange of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between the New World and the Old World after the 1490s.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This document, signed in 1620, established a self-governing colony based on majority rule in New England.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This document, ratified in 1781, served as the first governing document of the United States before being replaced by the current Constitution in 1789.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This 1848 convention in New York marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States and produced the Declaration of Sentiments, which called for gender equality.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This 1906 federal law aimed to protect consumers and eventually led to the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Founded in 1565, this city in Florida is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the contiguous United States.
What is St. Augustine?
This 1692 event in Massachusetts involved a series of hearings and prosecutions of innocent people, resulting in the execution of twenty.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This 1765 British act imposed a direct tax on the colonies and required many printed materials to show proof of the tax being paid.
What is the Stamp Act?
This movement, which gained momentum in the 1820s, advocated for the reduction or elimination of alcohol and drew attention to its associated ill effects on society.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and White students to be unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This vast and powerful empire, located in modern-day Peru, was conquered by Francisco Pizarro in the 1530s.
What is the Inca Empire?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia was led by a planter against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This state's nickname is "The First State."
What is Delaware?
The set of three amendments to the U.S. Constitution, informally known as the Civil War Amendments, abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and granted voting rights to Blacks.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This 1917 diplomatic telegram from the German Empire to Mexico proposed a military alliance against the United States in World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Signed in 1494, it resolved territorial disputes between Spain and Portugal regarding newly discovered lands outside of Europe.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This war, which took place from 1675-1676, was named after the chief of the Wampanoag people and was one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and New England settlers.
What is King Philip's War?
This 1777 battle is often considered the turning point of the American Revolutionary War because it led to a formal alliance with France.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This battle, fought in 1815 after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, made Andrew Jackson a national hero.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Slotted between the single-crewed Mercury program and the three-person Apollo spacecraft, this series of two-person spacecraft has an astrological connection.
What is Gemini?