Unit 1
This transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between hemispheres reshaped life on both sides of the Atlantic.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1763 British law blocked colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This early U.S. government system could not tax, could not regulate trade, and required unanimous consent for amendments.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This idea let settlers in western territories vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The state whose capital is Denver.
What is Colorado?
This European nation’s colonization style depended heavily on forced Indigenous labor through the encomienda system.
What is Spain?
This colonial region was known for small farms, mixed agriculture, and growing port cities like Boston and Philadelphia.
What are the Northern colonies?
This compromise convinced Anti-Federalists to ratify the Constitution.
What is adding the Bill of Rights?
This 1850s Supreme Court decision said enslaved people had no rights as citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Give the abbreviation for the state whose capital is Albany.
What is NY?
This nation built its New World empire around the fur trade and alliances with Native peoples rather than mass settlement.
What is France?
This treaty ended the French and Indian War and forced France to give up nearly all its North American territory.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Jefferson worried about this major 1803 purchase because the Constitution did not explicitly give the president power to buy land.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Early in the Civil War, Lincoln said the war’s main purpose was this.
What is preserving the Union?
Name the capital of the state abbreviated AZ.
What is Phoenix?
This brutal stage of the Triangle Trade involved kidnapping Africans and transporting them across the Atlantic in lethal, packed ships.
What is the Middle Passage?
This group, founded in protest of British taxes, organized boycotts and sometimes violent resistance.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This period saw rapid expansion of factories, canals, and transportation networks, permanently changing American society.
What is the Market Revolution?
This 1863 wartime measure freed enslaved people only in states “in rebellion,” not in border states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This state, bordered by North Dakota and Iowa, uses the abbreviation SD.
What is South Dakota?
Give one cause AND one effect of the Columbian Exchange.
Acceptable responses:
Cause: European exploration, demand for new trade routes, crop/wealth search
Effect: Disease depopulation, new crops in Europe, horses in the Americas, rise of Atlantic slavery, demographic explosion in Europe
This famous political complaint argued that because colonists had no elected voice in Parliament, any laws or taxes imposed on them violated their rights as Englishmen.
What is “taxation without representation”?
This early-19th-century transformation dramatically increased factory production, expanded canals and railroads, and shifted the U.S. toward a more interconnected national economy.
What is the Market Revolution?
Identify one success AND one failure of Reconstruction.
Acceptable responses:
Success: 13th–15th Amendments, schools for freedmen, some political participation
Failures: Jim Crow rise, Black Codes, sharecropping exploitation, withdrawal of federal troops (1877)
Give the abbreviation for the only U.S. state east of the Mississippi whose capital city starts with the same letter as the state name.
What is IN?