Pre-Colonial Era
The largest city in North America north of Mexico before European discovery.
What was Cahokia?
This was the colonial economic system used to transfer Gold, slaves, but mainly fruits, vegetables and meats across the Atlantic ocean.
What was the Columbian exchange?
This future president was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war.
Who is George Washington?
The period of American history known for its immense political corruption.
What was the Gilded Age?
The alliance of military forces in World War I consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottomans, and Bulgaria.
What were the Central Powers?
A native confederation located in modern day New England and Albany.
What was the Iroquois confederation?
The first successful English settlement in mainland North America
What is Jamestown?
The main criticism for this document was that it did not give enough power to the federal (central) government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Born from a wealthy family, he was a railroad titan and investment banker during the Gilded Age.
Who was J. Pierpont Morgan?
The financial failure in the USA following the Roaring 20's in which two of the factors were overproduction and the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What was the Great Depression?
A Native American "Empire" in Peru & Northern Chile.
What were the Incas?
Nickname for the type of farming for profit that included tobacco, rice, indigo, and slave labor. Generally associated with Southern Colonies.
What is Cash Crop Farming?
The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan came together to be called this.
What is the Great Compromise?
The full name of one of the two pioneers of yellow (sensationalist) journalism.
Who was William Randolph Hearst OR Who was Joseph Pulitzer?
The movement adopted by the Lost Generation after WWI (fueled by the teachings of people like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud) that rejected traditional ideas of faith and instead embraced cynicism.
What is modernism?
A pre colonial settlement with more than 200,000 thousand inhabitants, located in central America.
What was Tenochtitlan?
This colonial region had the most diverse economy. Included Bread Basket farms, busy trade harbors, fur trade, merchants, fisherman, lumber, and small farms.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Certain states did not ratify (approve) the Constitution until this was added to it.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A group of political activists that supported Grover Cleveland's presidential campaign.
Who were the Mugwumps?
Woodrow Wilson's proposal outlining his vision for the end of World War I that would prevent future conflicts of such a magnitude.
What were the Fourteen Points?
The land route pre-historic humans used to cross into the Americas for the first time.
What was the Bering Strait?
The name of the difficult, harsh, and sometimes deadly journey slaves made on ships from Africa to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! This man supported ratification of the Constitution without a Bill of Rights.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company (and partner to Andrew Carnegie), responsible for extreme actions towards laborers during the Homestead Strike
Who was Henry Clay Frick?
The massive yet controversial exhibition of modernist art in early America, consisting of the works of George Braque, Mary Cassatt, etc.
What was the 1913 Armory Show?