This costly, global conflict exposed American colonists to British soldiers and initiated conflicts over taxation and representation.
What is the French and Indian War
100
Throughout the 1800s, many excluded groups invoked the rhetoric of this document to justify inclusion in government and the expansion of their rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
Between 1838 and 1839, under the direction of President Andrew Jackson, this group left the Southeast for lands west of the Mississippi.
Who are the Cherokee?
100
This man won the presidential election of 1860 on the platform of stopping the expansion of slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Settlers of this first English colony in the Americas disappeared mysteriously leaving only a cryptic message: Croatoan.
What is Roanoke?
200
This beverage-centric event, on December 16, 1773, resulted in the closure of Boston Harbor as part of the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Boston Tea Party
200
During this struggle, veterans of the American Revolution and small farmers demanded that states issue paper money and stop foreclosures for debt.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
200
This Presidential campaign song gave sole credit for victory in New Orleans to frontier militiamen despite the participation of Indians, blacks, and pirates.
What is "The Hunters of Kentucky"?
200
In this agreement, Congress determined that the southern boundary of the new state it created should separate slave states from free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Under this policy, families were given 50 acres of land for each new settler to arrive in Virginia.
What is the headright system?
300
This British governor of New York was accused of dressing as Queen Anne to open a session of the colonial assembly.
Who is Lord Cornbury?
300
Historians have blamed this outburst of hysterical accusations on PTSD in the wake of Indian raids.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
300
This Supreme Court ruling suggested that black Americans, as "beings of an inferior order," were neither citizens nor had any human rights.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
300
This process may have been accelerated by fears of a British abolitionist conspiracy.
What is the Annexation of Texas?
300
This puritan religious figure was expelled from Massachusetts for leading religious meetings in her home.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
400
This group, that brought political engagement into the home, organized a boycott of tea.
What is the Daughters of Liberty?
400
This Founding Father argued that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
At this meeting, participants decried their inability to speak publicly or serve as Christian ministers.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
Proponents of this vision of America's future in the west hoped to prohibit slavery to protect the interests of small farmers.
What is free soil?
400
John Eliot translated the bible into Algonquian and founded these settlements for Christian Indians.
What are praying towns?
500
Many colonists thought this border was an unnatural British violation of their rights.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763
500
This preacher argued that individuals should reform the society around them (through movements like temperance and abolitionism) to hasten the apocalypse and eternal salvation.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney
500
This abolitionist railed against the colonization movement and attempted to expose the hypocrisy of white Christians.
Who is David Walker?
500
Pro-slavery advocates diagnosed Northern factory workers with this form of economic dependence.
What is "wage slavery"?
500
Although this event fizzled out after the death of its leader, it resulted in the violent expulsion of many Native Americans as well as firmer racial distinctions between white servants and black slaves.