Unit 1 American Beginnings & Colonialism
This exchange brought crops, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds after 1492.
Answer: What is the Columbian Exchange?
The "shot heard around the world" occurred here
Answer: What is Lexington and Concord?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States during Jefferson's presidency.
Answer: What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859
Answer: Who is John Brown
This period of rapid industrial growth followed the Civil War.
Answer: What is the Gilded Age?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Answer: What is Jamestown?
This war left Britain heavily in debt and led to new taxes on the colonies.
Answer: What is the French and Indian War?
This term describes the strong pride in one's country that spread after the War of 1812.
Answer: What is Nationalism?
This idea allowed settlers in a territory to vote on whether slavery would be permitted.
(Double Points if you can identify BOTH acts passed that included this idea in the lead up to the civil war, and WHERE Popular Sovereignty would apply)
Answer: What is Popular Sovereignty (Compromise of 1850 - Utah + New Mexico, AND Kansas-Nebraska Act - Kansas + Nebraska)
Journalist, like Upton Sinclair and Thomas Nast, who exposed corruption and social problems were known by this term.
Answer: What are Muckrakers?
This document established self-government among the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower.
Answer: What is the Mayflower Compact?
This secret organization, led by Samuel Adams, protested British taxation.
Answer: What are the Sons of Liberty?
This crisis centered on whether states could ignore federal laws they believed were unconstitutional.
Answer: What is the Nullification Crisis?
This Supreme Court decision, part of which declared that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Answer: What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Following the end of Reconstruction, these formalized systems of racism/segregation arose in the South
What are: Jim Crow Laws
This trade network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Answer: What is Triangular Trade?
This agreement officially ended the American Revolution in 1783.
Answer: What is the Treaty of Paris?
Passed during the Era of Good Feelings, this foreign policy statement warned European nations against interfering in the Western Hemisphere.
Answer: What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The first battle of the Civil War, following shortly after the secession of Southern States following Republican Candidate Abraham Lincoln's confirmation as President
What is: The Battle of Fort Sumter
These three amendments abolished slavery, established citizenship, and protected voting rights.
Answer: What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (Reconstruction Amendments)
This type of business organization pooled investor money to finance colonization.
Answer: What is a Joint Stock Company?
Thomas Paine wrote this influential pamphlet encouraging colonial independence.
Answer: What is Common Sense?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
Answer: What is Marbury v. Madison?
These two factors played the largest role in the Union's eventual victory in the Civil War
Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal was characterized by the "3 C's". Identify each of the 3 C's
Answer: Control Corporations, Consumer Protection, Conservation of Natural Resources