Exploration & the New World
This land bridge allowed the first humans to migrate into North America
➡️ What is Beringia (the Bering Land Bridge)?
$100 – This colony was the first permanent English settlement
➡️ What is Jamestown?
Britain fought this war against France, increasing colonial taxes afterward
➡️ What was the French and Indian War?
First governing document of the United States
➡️ What are the Articles of Confederation?
Belief that Americans were destined to expand west
➡️ What is Manifest Destiny?
European rulers wanted a western route to Asia mainly to avoid these costly trade intermediaries
➡️ Who were Muslim and Italian merchants?
$200 – A labor system where workers traded years of labor for passage to America
➡️ What is indentured servitude?
Colonial slogan protesting British taxes
➡️ What is “No taxation without representation”?
Weakness that made the Articles ineffective
➡️ What is lack of power to tax (or weak central government)?
Purchase that doubled the size of the U.S.
➡️ What is the Louisiana Purchase?
$300 – This exchange transferred plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas
➡️ What is the Columbian Exchange?
This agreement established self-government among the Pilgrims
➡️ What is the Mayflower Compact?
This act placed a tax on printed materials
➡️ What is the Stamp Act?
This rebellion showed the need for a stronger government
➡️ What was Shays’ Rebellion?
This invention increased the demand for enslaved labor
➡️ What is the cotton gin?
Who founded the americas
Christopher Colombus
This British policy allowed colonies to govern themselves with little interference
➡️ What is salutary neglect?
This protest dumped tea into Boston Harbor
➡️ What was the Boston Tea Party?
This compromise created a two-house legislature
➡️ What is the Great Compromise?
War that resulted in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
➡️ What is the Mexican-American War?
$500 – This Italian explorer had America named after him
➡️ Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
These events in Massachusetts were caused by fear, religion, and social tension
➡️ What were the Salem Witch Trials?
This pamphlet convinced many colonists to support independence
➡️ What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
These essays supported ratification of the Constitution
➡️ What are the Federalist Papers?
Violent conflict caused by popular sovereignty
➡️ What is Bleeding Kansas?