Unit 1: Colonial America
The year that Columbus sailed to America, marking the beginning of the colonial era
What is 1492?
The year that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, marking the beginning of the United States as a nation.
What is 1776?
A revolt for equality and republicanism, sparked by the American Revolution.
What is the Haitian Revolution? or
What is the French Revolution?
The year the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
The re-interpretation of events in the Civil War that attempts to preserve the honor of the South.
What is the Lost Cause?
The American colony was established in 1535 by conquistadors and Catholic missionaries.
What is New Spain?
The 17th and 18th century movement that popularized the concepts of individualism and self-rule
What is the Enlightenment (or the Age of Reason)?
A political party in the first party system that strove for a stronger central government and were pro-British.
Who were the Federalists?
The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850.
What is the fugitive slave law?
The Constitutional Amendment, passed in 1865, that outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The colony established in 1541 by Samuel de Champlain to be a utopia for religious freedom, particularly for Huguenots.
What is New France?
The group of colonists that took a pacifist approach in the American Revolution, not wanting to relive the war and conflict of their European homelands.
What is the Midlands (Pennsylvania Dutch and Quakers)?
The term given to the Supreme Court's power to declare laws unconstitutional
Judicial Review
The first state to secede from the Union following Lincoln's election.
Laws created in the late 19th century that enforced racial segregation
What are Black Codes? or
What are Jim Crow laws?
The colony was established in 1607 by English Cavaliers like John Smith.
What is Tidewater (or Jamestown)?
The author of Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine
The president who purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The important Supreme Court case that declared slaves property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The birthright Amendment that guarantees citizenship to any person born in the United States.
The company that established New Netherlands in 1642.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
One reason that the Articles of Confederation failed.
What is...
No President
No Army
No Courts
No Taxes or
State Sovereignty
The belief that it was God's will for America to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The bloodiest day in United States history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The midpoint of the Transcontinental Railroad