Native People & Exploration
Which major Native American city near present-day ST. Louis was a key trade and religious center before Europe?
Cahokia
Which economic policy guided British control of colonial trade to benefit the mother country?
Mercantilism
What organization formed to coordinate colonial resistance after the Stamp Act?
The Sons of Liberty
What 1803 deal doubled the size of the United States?
The Louisiana Purchase
What was the name of the Union’s military strategy to blockade the South and control the Mississippi River?
The Anaconda Plan
What maritime technology helped enable European exploration during the Age of Discovery?
The Caravel
What was the main cash crop of South Carolina that relied on enslaved labor?
Rice
What 1770 incident involved British soldiers killing five colonists during a protest?
The Boston Massacre
What Native American leader attempted to form a pan-Indian alliance against U.S. expansion in the early 1800s?
Tecumseh
Which general led the Union to victory and later became president during Reconstruction?
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the name of the Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire?
Hernan Cortes
What was the 1739 slave rebellion in South Carolina that relied on enslaved labor?
The Stono Rebellion
What document formally declared the colonies' independence from Britain in 1776?
The Declaration of Independence
What movement sought to end slavery throughout the United States?
Abolitionism
What battle gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Battle of Antietam
What was the name of the system that exchanged crops, animals, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds?
The Columbia Exchange
Who founded Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers?
William Penn
What powers were lacking under the Articles of Confederation, weakening the national government?
The power to tax and regulate trade
What 1830 law led to the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands east of the Mississippi?
Indian Removal Act
What amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to former slaves?
The 14th Amendment
Which Native American group in the Northeast formed a powerful political alliance to resist European colonization?
What 18th-century intellectual movement emphasized reason, science, and individualism, influencing colonial leaders?
The Enlightenment
What collection of essays supported ratification of the U.S. Constitution?
The Federalist Papers
What Utopian community in Indiana aimed to create a perfect society based on communal living?
New Harmony
What was the name of the political faction that sought to punish the South during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans