Presidential Pioneers
This president warned against the dangers of political parties in his farewell address.
George Washington
This term refers to the transatlantic exchange of goods, people, and ideas between the New World and Old World.
Columbian Exchange
He was a leading figure in the American Enlightenment and a Founding Father.
Benjamin Franklin
This event marked the beginning of European colonization in the Americas in 1492.
Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the Americas.
This war was fought between Northern and Southern states from 1861-1865.
The American Civil War
This president was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
This term describes a person who agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to America.
Indentured Servant
He was a former enslaved person who became a prominent abolitionist and writer.
Frederick Douglass
This war was fought between the British and French from 1754-1763
The French and Indian War (7 Years War)
After the Battle of New Orleans, this man was given the nickname "Old Hickory".
Andrew Jackson
This president successfully brought Texas, California and Oregon territory into the ownership of the United States.
James K. Polk
This term refers to the forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
He was known as "The Great Compromiser".
Henry Clay
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
The Louisiana Purchase
This proclamation declared all enslaved people in Confederate states to be free in 1863.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This president still holds the shortest presidential term.
William Henry Harrison
This term describes the belief that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
Manifest Destiny
He was the first Secretary of the Treasury and a Founding Father.
Alexander Hamilton
This war was ended in 1848 through the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
The Mexican-American War
This war was known as "Mr. Madison's War".
The War of 1812
This president's doctrine stated that European powers should not interfere in the affairs of countries in the Western Hemisphere.
James Monroe
This invention revived the south's dependence on slaves.
The cotton gin
This quote was written by this man. "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the [African] is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."
Alexander Stephens
This treaty ended the American Revolution.
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
This battle, fought on April 19, 1775, marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
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