The Virginia Charter guaranteed that English settlers in the New World would

The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by

The first English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in

Georgia's founders were determined to

England's defeat of the Spanish Armada

The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it

When Lord De La Warr took control of Jamestown in 1610, he

Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the

The ____ decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates.

The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was the

Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as

The English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I, can best be described as

A peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War in 1614 by the

The biggest disrupter of Native American life was

In 1675 Wampanoag warriors attacked the town of Swansea in what came to be called

What granted religious toleration to all Christians in Maryland?

What did the Dutch name their major settlement located on Manhattan Island?

People from England who were willing to sell their labor for a certain number of years for a chance to come to America and acquire land agreed to become

From the earliest days of settlement, the Southern Colonies developed an economy based on commercial

The three-way trade New England merchants established with the Caribbean colonies in order to acquire British goods is an example of

The lumber industry also made possible another important industry in New England—

The Albany Plan of Union proposed that

In the Gaspee Affair,

The Continental Army was first formed from

The purpose of the Albany Conference was to negotiate

In the treaty that ended the French and Indian War, the British gained all of the following territory EXCEPT

The colonists protested the Stamp Act by

After the Boston Massacre, the British brought peace to the colonies temporarily by repealing the

In response to the British and at the suggestion of Thomas Jefferson, the colonies formed

The laws known as the “Intolerable Acts” were the Coercive Acts and the

Parliament had imposed many taxes on trade, but what was the first direct tax Britain had ever placed on the colonists?

On September 5, 1774, in Philadelphia, a colonial congress was coordinated by the committees of correspondence and called the

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 declared that colonists could not settle west of a line drawn north to south along

To assist customs officers in arresting smugglers, the Revenue Act legalized the use of general search warrants called

On March 5, 1770, a crowd of colonists began taunting and throwing snowballs at a British soldier guarding a customs house, which resulted in the

With what laws did the British intend to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and end colonial challenges to British authority?

What became known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts?

Congressional leaders feared that if New York fell without a fight, it would hurt American morale, so they sent troops there under the leadership of

The local militias in the colonies fought differently than the Continental Army, using a kind of fighting called

On the night of December 25, 1776, George Washington led approximately 2,400 men across the icy

Beginning in 1785, seven states began issuing

after the Revolutionary war a major dispute with Spain involved the border between Spanish territory and the state of

Even before independence was declared, Patriot leaders at the Continental Congress realized that the colonies needed to be united under some type of

The Confederation Congress was not given the power to

The system created to prevent any one of the three branches of government from becoming too powerful is called

Who was an influential nationalist, a member of the Virginia Assembly, and head of its commerce committee?

The Great Compromise proposed that in one house of Congress—the House of Representatives—the states would be represented according to the size of their

The compromise that stated every five enslaved people in a state would count as three free persons for determining both representation and taxes was called the

Antifederalists opposed the Constitution because they thought it endangered the independence of the

How many states had to vote in favor of the Constitution in order to put it into effect?

By July 1788, all states had ratified the Constitution except Rhode Island and

What did the Federalists promise to add to the Constitution after ratification?

A plan that proposed scrapping the Articles of Confederation and creating a new national government with the power to make laws binding upon the states and raise money through taxes was called the

The XYZ Affair concerned

The British seized American sailors, a practice known as

The Bill of Rights that went into effect in 1791 had ____ amendments.

The idea that states can declare a federal law unconstitutional is called

The decision in the Marbury v. Madison case established

The Shoshone who joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a guide was

The last amendment in the Bill of Rights states that

Paper notes promising to repay money after a certain length of time with interest are called

Some leaders opposed the Bank of the United States because they believed

The United States gained the Louisiana Territory by

Who agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory?

One of the most important acts of Congress during its first session in 1789 was the introduction of the

Thomas Jefferson’s belief that the strength of the United States was its independent farmers is sometimes referred to as

The nation’s first two political parties were the Federalists and the

Hoping to avoid a war with Britain, Washington sent John Jay to Britain to negotiate what came to be called

Manifest Destiny was the idea that God had given the continent to

The Preemption Act of 1830 allowed squatters to

Mountain men played a vital role in western settlement because they

Supporters of James K. Polk cried “Fifty-four Forty or Fight,” which meant

The first pioneers became known as squatters because they

Parts of Oregon had been claimed by

The Donner Party tried to survive by

Seeking religious freedom, the Mormons traveled west, settling in what is now

In the peace treaty that ended the war between Mexico and the United States, Mexico accepted ____ as the southern border of Texas.

The steamboat was an improvement over barges because it could

The Boston Manufacturing Company, a huge textile mill, employed mostly women and children because

Cities grew in the United States during industrialization because

A cotton gin

In the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, Spain

What transportation project from Albany to Buffalo was completed in 1825?

In the case Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Supreme Court ruled that

The original purpose of the Gadsden Purchase was to

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Northerners headed for Kansas because

The caning of Charles Sumner resulted from him accusing other senators of

John Brown’s intention in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was to arm

The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of ____ in the territories.

The prison in the South where 13,000 captured Union soldiers died was

All of the following were advantages the North enjoyed over the South EXCEPT

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Amendment to the Constitution that banned slavery in the United States was the

What did Congress pass in 1862 that created a national currency and allowed the government to issue paper money?

In the summer of 1862, Congress introduced a militia law that required states to draft people for military service called

Lacking sufficient money from taxes or bonds, the Confederacy was forced to print paper money to pay its bills, causing rapid

It was clear that a large, well-trained army would be needed to defeat the South after the Union defeat at

Frederick Douglass believed that serving in the military would help African Americans overcome

With his ragged and battered troops surrounded and outnumbered, General Lee surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865, at

The term "Columbian Exchange" describes:

The prison in the South where 13,000 captured Union soldiers died was