Colonial America
Colonies existed to benefit the mother country by providing raw materials and buying finished goods. This describes what economic system
Mercantilism
Colonists protested British tea taxes by dumping tea into Boston Harbor in 1773.
👉 What was the Boston Tea Party?
This was the biggest disagreement between Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
👉 What is the power of the national government?
This route carried settlers west in wagons to Oregon, California, and Utah.
👉 What was the Oregon Trail?
Most Americans during this era lived in poverty while a few became extremely wealthy.
👉 What was the Gilded Age?
This Union strategy aimed to cut off Confederate supplies by controlling rivers and ports.
👉 What is the Anaconda Plan?
This president was known as a “trust buster.”
👉 Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Enslaved Africans were forced to work on plantations, forming the backbone of the Southern economy. This is an example of?
African Slave Trade
These British laws closed Boston Harbor and punished Massachusetts after the Tea Party.
👉 What were the Intolerable Acts?
Anti-Federalists demanded this addition to protect individual liberties.
👉 What is the Bill of Rights?
This law tried to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal land into individual plots.
👉 What was the Dawes Act?
This strategy controls all steps of production, from raw materials to distribution.
👉 What is vertical integration?
This was the leading cause of death for Civil War soldiers.
👉 What are disease and infection?
This president supported breaking up monopolies but believed some were necessary.
👉 Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine in plain language, encouraged independence from Britain.
👉 What is Common Sense*?*
These acts taxed sugar, printed materials, and other goods, increasing colonial anger toward Britain.
👉 What were the Sugar Act and Stamp Act?
This early U.S. government failed because it lacked the power to tax or enforce laws.
👉 What were the Articles of Confederation?
Describe initial interactions between western settlers and Native Americans.
Early cooperation often turned into conflict over land and resources
This strategy involves buying out competitors to dominate an industry.
👉 What is horizontal integration?
Why did General Lee Surrender
General Lee surrendered after his army was surrounded and unable to escape.
This president focused on regulating business rather than breaking it up.
👉 Who was William Howard Taft?
After the Townshend Acts, colonists responded to shortages by producing goods at home through spinning bees.
👉 What is homespun cloth?
The belief that Britain taxed the colonies without allowing them representation helped spark this conflict.
👉 What was the American Revolution?
States like Virginia and Kentucky protested these acts by declaring them unconstitutional.
👉 What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
What rights did Spanish-speaking residents gain under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Citizenship, property rights, and religious freedom.
This steel tycoon used vertical integration to lower costs and increase profits.
👉 Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Lincoln described the United States as a nation conceived in this ideal.
👉 What is liberty and equality?
This president favored strong antitrust enforcement and small government.
👉 Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This system brought enslaved Africans to the colonies and became the foundation of the Southern plantation economy.
What is the African slave trade?
Americans saw it as unjustified violence; Britain claimed self-defense.
The Boston Massacre
Q: What was the Monroe Doctrine?
Europe should not interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
Native Americans grew increasingly concerned about westward migration after this began.
👉 What is the rise of covered wagon migration?
This labor leader supported skilled workers and favored collective bargaining.
👉 Who was Samuel Gompers?
Lincoln stated that the ground at Gettysburg was consecrated by these individuals.
👉 Who are the soldiers who fought and died there?
👉 Who are the soldiers who fought and died there?
This idea argued that the wealthy had a moral duty to help society.
👉 What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This colonial region depended heavily on enslaved labor to grow cash crops like tobacco and rice.
What are the Southern colonies?
Important Document written by Thomas Jefferson and others?
Declaration of Independance
This compromise created a bicameral legislature at the Constitutional Convention.
👉 What is the Great Compromise?
This war’s territorial gains reignited debates over the expansion of slavery.
👉 What is the Mexican-American War?
This belief favored native-born Americans over immigrants.
👉 What is nativism?
Conflicts between farmers and ranchers over land use were known as these.
👉 What were range wars?
This movement urged Christians to tackle societal problems like poverty, injustice, and slums, applying Christ's teachings to make the world more like God's kingdom.
Social Gospel
Britain’s victory in this war led directly to higher taxes on the American colonies.
What was the French and Indian War?
The Boston Massacre
The key difference between the British and American perspectives on who started the conflict.
Disagreement over the crowd's behavior
Describe one weakness of the Articles of Confederation that led to calls for a new constitution.
inability to tax or regulate commerce, leaving it perpetually underfunded and unable to manage interstate trade disputes, forcing it to rely on states that often refused to contribute
This law unintentionally enraged many Northerners who had been indifferent to slavery.
👉 What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This law banned Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S.
👉 What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
law that ended slavery in the Confederate States
Emancipation Proclamation
What idea did social Darwinism excuse?
What is racism, colonialism, and unfettered capitalism.
In his Farewell Address, Washington emphasized that this was essential to preserving liberty.
👉 What is national unity?
This Supreme Court decision ruled African Americans were not citizens and deepened sectional divisions.
👉 What is the Dred Scott decision?
This law was designed to break up monopolies and promote competition.
👉 What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The Amendment that ended slavery
13th Amendment