Name given to Spanish explorers, soldiers and adventurers looking for gold
What are conquistadors?
100
Name given to the period prior to the Civil War.
What is the antebellum era?
100
Religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s; major leaders included Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.
What is the First Great Awakening?
100
Native American woman who acted as a guide for Lewis and Clark but received little recognition in her lifetime.
Who is Sacajawea?
100
Location of Robert E Lee's surrender
What is Appomattox?
200
Early leader of the Jamestown Colony who helped turn it around by implementing a "no-work-no-eat" policy.
Who is John Smith?
200
Name coined by Mark Twain to describe the outward wealth and inward corruption of the 1880s and 1890s
What is the Gilded Age?
200
Massive shift to machine-power in early nineteenth-century America; drastically changed American culture and economy
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
Derogatory name given to extremely wealthy businessmen of the Gilded Age, including men like Rockefeller, Carnegie and Gould.
What are Robber Barons?
200
Name given to the application of Darwin's theory of evolution to social policies; advocated the survival of the fittest and disparaged helping the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Extremely unpopular president following Lincoln who had no people skills and managed to be the first president to ever be impeached
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
Dates of the Civil War
What is 1861-1865?
300
One of the earliest textile mills in the US; it was also a social experiment that brought young, unmarried women together and put them in a boarding house.
What are the Lowell Mills?
300
These two men built the first successful airplane in 1903.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
300
Religious revival in the early nineteenth century; led by Charles Finney in Western New York and characterized by highly emotional outbursts in Kentucky and Tennessee
What is the Second Great Awakening?
400
Name given to white Southern Republicans after the Civil War
What is a scalawag?
400
Dates of Reconstruction
What is 1865-1877?
400
Name Freud gave to the most basic, selfish part of the human psyche; comprises instincts, desires and sexual drive
What is the id?
400
Group of colonists who settled Plymouth Colony because they thought the Church of England was too corrupt to be saved; also know as Pilgrims.
What are Separatists?
400
First significant attempt of Congress to restrict "undesirable" immigration; an 1882 act that banned Chinese immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
Revolutionary psychoanalyst who emphasized the importance of sexuality at all ages
Who is Sigmund Freud?
500
Over 20 million immigrants entered the US in this time frame, until America started passing quotas to restrict the number of immigrants
What is 1880-1920?
500
Shady act signed by Andrew Jackson that authorized him to make deals with "leaders" of Native American tribes to trade their homelands for lands west of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
500
African pygmy whose stint in the Bronx Zoo created a firestorm of controversy; he was eventually released and ultimately committed suicide
Who is Ota Benga?
500
Compromise reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that agreed representatives of one house of Congress would be chosen by state size; the other would have an equal number of representations for each state