Unit 1: Revolution & A New Nation
The first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607
Jamestown
Native American woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark as they explored the west, helping them
Sacagawea
White man who fought for abolition and was executed for his attempt to free the slaves
John Brown
City that most immigrants went to in the US
NYC, Boston, Chicago
Type of journalism that was sensational, sometimes fake, and led us to the Spanish American war
Historic document, adopted in 1776, declared the American colonies' independence from British rule
Declaration of Independence
President known as a "man of the people" because of his lack of education; showed that regular people could be president
Andrew Jackson
Two ways enslaved people resisted oppression
Holding onto culture and community, behavior, revolt, education, running away
Creator of the term Gilded Age
Mark Twain
3 places the US acquired in the 1800s
Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Panama Canal zone
Colonial region known for strong education, rocky landscape, fishing, and religious diversity
New England
Three ways we acquired land outside of the original 13 colonies
Louisiana Purchase, Texas annexation, Mexican American War, Gadsden Purchase, purchase of Oregon and Florida, etc.
Two states that were admitted to the US during the Missouri Compromise
Maine (free) and Missouri (slave)
Conditions of factory life in the Gilded Age
Long hours, low pay, unsafe, child labor
1 reason why the US entered WWI
Unrestricted submarine warfare, economic desires, spread of democracy, etc.
First ten amendments to the Constitution and name one of them
Bill of Rights;
•1st: Freedom of speech, the press, religion, and the right to assemble
•2nd: Guns!
•3rd: Soldiers can’t stay in your house if you don’t want soldiers in your house.
•4th: The government can’t search or take your property “unreasonably”
•5th: Lots of legal stuff (No double jeopardy, you can’t be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process)
•6th: You get a “speedy and public trial”
•7th: You have the right to a trial by jury
•8th: You can’t be held on “excessive” bail - and no cruel or unusual
•Punishments
•9th: Just because we listed these rights doesn’t mean other rights don’t also exist
•10th: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
Indian Removal Act sent Native Americans on the path known as
The Trail of Tears
Holiday that celebrates the day all enslaved people learned they were free
Juneteenth
State that AZ was originally going to be a part of
New Mexico
Type of warfare dominant in WWI
War that puts Britain in debt, ending salutatory neglect and causing tension between colonists and Britain
French and Indian War
What road in Phoenix was the Indian boarding school on and when did it shut down?
Indian School Road; 1990
13, 14, 15 amendment accomplishment
13: no slavery
14: citizenship to African Americans
15: African American men can vote
What did the 19th amendment do and when did it pass nationally?
Women the right to vote; 1920
2 of Wilson's 14 points that make it into the Treaty of Versailles
○Freedom of the sea
○League of Nations
○Creation of Poland
○Reducing armaments
○Independence for Turkey and others (Germany colonies)