Period 1
This group lived in the Americas before European contact.
Who are Native Americans / Indigenous peoples?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The war between Britain and France that set the stage for the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War?
The U.S. doubled in size with this 1803 land purchase.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This war resulted in the U.S. gaining land in the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The Columbian Exchange transferred these from the Old World to the New World.
What are horses, cattle, wheat, sugar, or diseases?
This colony was founded as a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This document declared the colonies independent from Britain in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This belief justified westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This document freed slaves in Confederate-held territory in 1863
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This disease devastated Indigenous populations after European contact.
What is smallpox?
This labor system replaced indentured servitude in the Southern colonies.
What is African slavery?
This was the first government of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This compromise attempted to resolve sectional conflict in 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This agricultural practice, used by Native Americans, involved rotating crops and burning fields.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
This conflict involved Native Americans resisting English expansion in New England.
What is King Philip’s War?
This event showed the weaknesses of the Articles and led to calls for reform
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This pre-Columbian empire used terrace farming and road systems across the Andes.
Who are the Incas?
This economic theory argued that colonies exist to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This compromise resolved representation disputes at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This doctrine warned European powers against interfering in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This Reconstruction amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people
What is the 14th Amendment?