What crop helped the English settlement at Jamestown to survive and prosper?
What is Tobacco
100
Why did British Parliament pass the Stamp Act?
What is Pay off war debts from the French and Indian War
100
What group opposed the ratification of the Constitution?
What is Anti-Federalists
100
Why was the election in 1800 called the "Revolution of 1800"?
What is 1st transfer of power from one political party to another.
100
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
What is Abolitionist
200
Which European group set up colonies that had a royal governor, focused on the fur trade and had settlements in Quebec and New Orleans?
What is France
200
What European intellectual movement had a huge impact on the thinking of colonial leaders on the eve of the American Revolution?
What is the Enlightenment
200
What document organized the governing of a new territory and required this territory to make slavery illegal?
What is Northwest Ordinance
200
What invention increased demand for slavery?
What is Eli Whitney's cotton gin
200
California entered the Union as a free state as part of which law?
What is Compromise of 1850
300
What group founded Massachusetts?
What is Puritans
300
What event marked the first fighting of the American Revolution between colonial minutemen and British soldiers?
What is Lexington and Concord
300
What plan called for representation based on equality (aka small state plan)
What is New Jersey Plan
300
What war was fought between the U.S. and Britain partially to support the principal of freedom of the seas and to stop the impressments of American soldiers?
What is War of 1812
300
What is the name of the belief that the U.S. should spread all the way to the Pacific?
What is Manifest Destiny
400
What was the first representative legislature in the new world?
What is Virginia's House of Burgesses
400
Which European country MOST helped the American colonies during the Revolutionary War?
What is France
400
What plan called for representation based on population? (Aka large state plan)
What is Virginia Plan
400
The Monroe Doctrine can be viewed as a moral opposition to
What is Colonialism
400
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848
What is Guadalupe-Hidalgo
500
What was the name of the system that encouraged Virginia's rich plantation owners to bring over indentured servants?
What is the Headright System
500
How did the British government react to the rise in Indian attacks in the western frontier after the French and Indian War? (*must be specific)
What is Proclamation of 1763
500
What rebellion showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shays' Rebellion
500
Which battle proved to be the biggest American defeat in the War of 1812?
What is Washington DC
500
What is the name of the area the U.S. bought from Mexico in hopes of building a railroad?