Unit 1
What is the narrative in our society that prioritizes the perspective of white people/people in power?
Master Narrative
True or false: Before the 1760s, the British government mostly left the thirteen colonies alone – as long as the colonies made England money, everything was okay (AKA, salutary neglect).
True
What is the name of the idea that colonists were destined to expand West?
Manifest Destiny
What is the name of a revolutionary that believes in outlawing slavery?
Abolitionist
What is the name of the period that followed the Civil War?
Reconstruction
What was the name of the first settler colony?
Jamestown
What was the Boston Tea Party?
A group of colonists, disguised as Native Americans, boarded ships and broke open all the chests of tea, dumping it into the harbor.
What were the names of the 3 people the expanded westward and discovered Louisiana?
Lewis, Clark, and Sacajawea
What was the battle that started the Civil War?
Battle of Fort Sumter
What 3 laws were passed during Reconstruction?
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Fill in the blank: The colonies ________________ raw materials and _______________ manufactured goods.
Import, Export
How many years was the French and Indian War?
7 years
What is the name of the path Native Americans had to take after they were removed from their ancestral lands?
Name one cause of the Civil War.
Disagreements over slavery, secession of the South, Mexican American War, Fugitive Slave Act
What regional laws were meant to limit the rights of freedmen?
Black Codes
What kind of system is "mercantilism"?
An economic system
Who did the colonists support in the French and Indian War?
The Native Americans
Which president was responsible for the Indian Removal Act?
President Andrew Jackson
What is the name of the revolutionary former slave that became a famous abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
Name the famous terrorist group that arose during Reconstruction.
KKK
What are the four steps to writing a response on an assessment (writing a claim)?
Restate the question, make your claim, provide supporting evidence, explain your reasoning
Name the three major documents written in the 1700s:
Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Constitution
What was the name of the enslaved man that became a revolutionary in the 1800s and was thought to be a madman?
Nat Turner
What speech effectively freed the slaves?
Emancipation Proclomation
What was the system that was created to keep freedmen poor and in reliant on former slave owners?
Sharecropping