These people came to America in search of religious freedom and tended to settle in the North. Industry & business propered in their colonies.
Who are the Puritans? (pilgrims acceptable)
100
This phrase was used to express the colonist's dissatisfaction with Britain's new taxes on the colonies.
What is "No taxation without Representation!"?
100
This acquisition of land more than doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
He was the president who freed the slaves and was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This is the first thing you should look at before you read a primary source document.
What is the source?
200
These people were not actually slaves, but owed a person free labor for a certain period of time in order to pay off a debt.
What are indentured servents?
200
This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. Historians are still not sure which side fired first.
What is the Battle of Lexington?
200
This invention allowed the industry of cotton to greatly expand across the South.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This former slave wanted to end slavery but was against the use of violence.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
Sourcing a document can help you understand the author's...
What is bias? (or perspective)
300
The name often given to the trade of goods and slaves between America, Europe, and Africa.
What is the Triangle Trade?
300
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention divided Congress into the House of Representative (based on population) and the Senate (equal representation).
What is the Great Compromise?
300
This law gave President Andrew Jackson the power to move all Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River, eventually resulting in the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
300
In this case, the Supreme Court stated that slaves are property, not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
300
Also referred to as "imagining the setting," this historical thinking skill involves consideration of the location and events taking place there at the time a document is written.
What is contextualization?
400
This religious movement challenged traditional church authority and preached democratic values
What is the Great Awakening?
400
This agreement allowed some slaves to be counted towards a state's population for the purposes of political representation in Congress.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
400
This agreement ended the Mexican-American war and gave the United States control over western territories including California.
What is the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo?
400
These amendments were passed during reconstruction, outlawing slavery, while granting people of color citiezenship and the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
400
This historical thinking skill involves comparing documents with each other to look for similarities and differences between their accounts of the past.
What is corroboration? (cross-checking acceptable)
500
This intellectual movement challenged traditional ideas through reason and logic. It is often associated with the work of John Locke.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
This group of people feared the amount of power given to the new federal government under the Constitution and demanded that a Bill of Rights be added.
What are the Anti-Federalist?
500
This religious group fled westward to Utah in order to avoid persecution for their beliefs. Their leader was Joseph Smith.
Who are the Mormans?
500
This agreement admitted CA as a free state, allowed the people of New Mexico and Utah to decide the slavery issue for themselves, and instituted a new harsher Fugitive Slave law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
The "study of history." Analyzing how a given piece of history came to be. This is what historians do.