This crop ensured that Jamestown would survive and prosper economically.
What is tobacco?
100
This group, led by Sam Adams, played an active role in Boston in encouraging colonists to protest British taxes through boycotts and other, sometimes violent, acts.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
100
This party, led by men like Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, favored a strong central government, a national bank, and a "loose" interpretation of the Constitution.
What is the Federalist Party?
100
This foreign policy declaration stated that there should be no new European colonization in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
Pickett's Charge was a major turning point in this three-day battle in 1863.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
Settlers in this colony were some of the most diverse in North America, owing in part to their former status as a major trading port in the Dutch empire.
What is New York?
200
This is the idea, popular with the American colonists, that representatives should come from the place they claim to represent.
What is actual representation?
200
This revolt along the frontier in western Pennsylvania against an excise tax led George Washington to call up the militias, the first time a president exercised his authority as commander in chief.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
200
The Second Party System was made up of Democrats and this party, which favored a stronger central government and was led by men like Henry Clay.
What is the Whig Party?
200
The application of this state to join the Union threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states in the Senate and set off a major crisis in 1850.
What is California?
300
This is the geometric term for patterns of exchange between Europe, Africa, and the New World that featured the flow of goods such as slaves, molasses, and rum.
What is the Triangle Trade?
300
Patrick Henry would have identified as one of these, because he opposed the new Constitution on the grounds it created too strong a central government and did not adequately protect individual rights.
What is an Anti-Federalist?
300
These laws, passed under President John Adams, aimed to weaken the Democratic Republicans by restricting free speech and making it harder to gain citizenship.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
300
This is the name given to the path walked by the eastern Indian tribes after Andrew Jackson forced their removal from the Southeastern states.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
These were the contingent of Republicans who desired very strict rules before Confederate states could re-enter the Union, and who required much of the South to be under military Reconstruction.
Who are Radical Republicans?
400
This representative institution in Virginia was one of the first examples of democratic self-government in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
400
This agreement at the Constitutional Convention set formula for how to count slaves for purposes of representation in the new Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
400
This institution caused the first major debate between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson over whether or not Congress had the authority to create it.
What is the Bank of the United States?
400
The opening of this waterway led to a major revolution in transportation allowing grain to pass more quickly and cheaply from the Midwest to the Northeast and helping to create one national market.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
This was President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, which required only a minority of former Confederates in each state to swear allegiance to the United States before the state could re-enter the Union.
What is the 10% Plan?
500
This colony was run by the Lords Proprietor, who sought to create a colony much like Barbados, based on large-scale plantation agriculture and many slaves.
What is Carolina (South Carolina)?
500
The American victory over the British at this battle was a major turning point in the American Revolution, guaranteeing that the French would come to the Americans aid.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
500
This Shawnee Indian leader allied with the British and led a major revolt against American settlers on the Western frontier (Indiana), encouraging the start of the War of 1812.
Who is Tecumseh?
500
This philosopher and writer is widely considered the leader of the Transcendentalist movement, which believed that men should seek a return to nature in order to reform corrupt society and become more self-reliant.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
500
This man's Reconstruction policy, which would have quickly restored the Confederate states to the Union, was opposed by Republicans in Congress for being far too lenient on his fellow Southerners, and eventually contributed to his impeachment.