Native America & European Contact
This land bridge once connected Asia and North America and is believed to be how the first people migrated into the Americas.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
These laborers agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to the colonies.
Who were indentured servants?
In 1773, colonists protested a British tax by dumping chests of tea into Boston Harbor in this event.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
In 1803, the United States doubled in size when it bought this large territory from France.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
He was the U.S. president during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This name is given to the transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These three regional groups of colonies developed different economies: one focused on shipbuilding and trade, one on grain and commerce, and one on cash crops and plantations.
What were the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
This famous slogan captured colonial anger at being taxed by a Parliament in which they had no voice.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
In 1823, this U.S. policy warned European nations not to colonize or interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This major issue, tied to states’ rights and expansion westward, was the main cause of the Civil War.
What was slavery?
This Italian explorer, sailing for Spain in 1492, opened the door for lasting contact between Europe and the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This cash crop saved Jamestown economically and led to the growth of plantations and slavery in Virginia.
What was tobacco?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a two-house Congress, with one house based on population and one with equal representation.
What was the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and set a line to limit the spread of slavery.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This 1863 order declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free and allowed African Americans to join the Union Army.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This powerful alliance of Native nations in the Northeast had a council system that influenced ideas about representative government.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
This Puritan woman was banished from Massachusetts Bay for holding Bible meetings and challenging church and colonial leaders.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
This first national government of the United States was too weak because it could not tax or enforce its laws.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This 1830 law led to the forced removal of many Native American tribes from their homelands, resulting in the “Trail of Tears.”
What was the Indian Removal Act?
These Southern laws after the Civil War tried to control the freedom and movement of formerly enslaved people.
What were Black Codes?
This Spanish labor system forced Native Americans to work for Spanish landowners in return for “protection” and conversion to Christianity.
What was the encomienda system?
his colony in the Middle Colonies was founded by William Penn as a safe haven for Quakers and a “holy experiment” in religious tolerance.
What is Pennsylvania?
In this farewell message, the first president warned against permanent foreign alliances, the dangers of political parties, and set the precedent of serving only two terms.
What was Washington’s Farewell Address?
This belief that the United States had a God-given right to expand west to the Pacific Ocean helped fuel conflict over slavery and sparked war with Mexico.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This political deal ended Reconstruction in 1877 by pulling federal troops out of the South in exchange for resolving a disputed presidential election.
What was the Compromise of 1877?