MEGA nerd review

Period 1:

Famous for the "starving time", founded 1607, first permanent British settlement in NA?

Jamestown

Who seperated from the Anglican Church?

Puritans

First document of self-government in America

Mayflower Compact

Who was John Winthrop?

"City Upon a Hill" speech, First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Expelled from Massachusetts for insisting anyone can read and interpret Bible for themselves

Anne Hutchinson

Associated with Virginia

Indentured Servents, 1600s, farmers, Bacon Rebellion

Synonymous with the Enlightenment

The First Great Awakening

John Locke

English philosopher, "life, liberty, and estate"

Only colony of the original 13 that was predominantly Catholic

Maryland

Great Puritain Migration destination in America

Massachusetts Bay Colony

What were the Salem Witch Trials?

Located in Salem, Massachusetts...200 accused of practicing witchcraft, 20 were executed

Period 3: When was the French & Indian War?

1763

Victor of the French and Indian War?

Britain

The end of what policy post F&I War led to growing tenison between the colonies and the crown?

Solitary Neglect

First attempt to collect revenue from the colonies?

The Sugar Act

Earlist indicator of intercolonial cooperation and unity?

Stamp Act Congress

Cause of the Intolerable Acts?

To punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party

What was the First Continental Congress?

1774, boycott, America's future under Britain

What state was Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill in?

Massachusetts

What was the Second Continental Congress?

1775, preparing for war against Britain

What is Common Sense?

Thomas Paine, independence for the 13 colonies

What is the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jeffereson, document that declared independence from Britain and the formation of America

What was America's first constitution?

Articles of Confederation

What was the Battle of Saratoga?

Turning point of the American Revolution

Articles of Confederation

The government after the freedom from Britain...power to declar war, sign treaties, make allies etc. ...lack of strong government, could not tax

Bill of Rights

James Madison

Only Federalist Party president?

John Adams

Period 4: What election was a "revolution"?

The Election of 1800, first peaceful transfer of power

"Revolution" winner?

Thomas Jefferson

Demographic of Democratic Republican?

Faremers, mostly southerners, wealthy, slaveowners

Who was Thomas Jefferson?

3rd president of the U.S., Louisiana Purchase, Democratic Republicans

War of 1812

U.S. and Great Britain fighting over impressment of American soldiers, trade, etc. ...Battle of Lake Erie, New Orleans

"Corrupt Bargain" loser

Andrew Jackson

First "Democrat" to win presidency?

Andrew Jackson

What region of the country first industrialized and built canals/roads?

The Northeast

What is transcendentalism?

People that wanted to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason (Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoureau)

Party that formed beacuse of the first democratic president (Andrew Jackson)

Whigs

What was Jacksonian democracy mean?

Political power to the people, majority rule, supporting the common man

First proposed that women can vote?

Seneca Falls convention, NY

Second Great Awakenng

Protestant religious revival, convertying to Christianity, social reform

Famous abolishionists

Frederick Douglass, William L. Garrison, Harriett Beecher Stowe

Period 5: War for Texas independence in the 1830s

Fall of the Alamo, Slave state

Docrine that helps explain how the U.S. nearly doubled in size between 1845-1848

Manifest Destiny

Who was president during Manifest Destiny?

James K. Polk

What was a protest of the Mexican American War?

Civil Disobedience

What country sent the most immigrants to America before 1850?

Ireland

The Wilmot Proviso's position on slavery was similar to the...

Northwest Ordiance

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

an act allowing Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty, repealed the Missouri compromise

What was Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott was a slave sued for freedom since he lived in free territory, but the Supreme Court said slaves are not citizens

Federalists-->Whigs-->

Republicans

John Brown was executed as a result of...

treason, supported freeing slaves

Who won the election of 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

After was event was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

After the Battle of Antietam

What group is behind Congressional Reconstruction

Radical Republicans

Most controversial Reconstruction Amendment for women?

15th

What amendment instantly made all former slaves citizens and promised "equal protection" of all laws?

14th amendment

What amendment made slavery illegal?

13th amendment

What was the alterative to slavery, post Civil War

Sharecropping

Period 6: What encouraged people to move west after the Civil War?

Homestead act

What intened to help Indians learn how to farm, own property, speak English, assimilate, etc.?

Dawes Act

Why do we have time zones?

To re-organize railroads

Who was the man associated with oil?

Rockefeller

Who was the man associated with steel?

Carnegie

Who coined the term "Gilded Age?"

Mark Twain

Who gave the "Cross of Gold" speech, nominated by two parties in 1896

William Jenning Bryan

Largest union in the 19th century

Knights of Labor

Most famous founder of the NAACP?

W.E.B. Du Bois

When did the Spanish-American War end?

1898

Furtue president who fought in the spanish-american war?

Theodore Roosevelt

Who was Jacob Riis?

photojournalist who published, "How the Other Half Lives" (1890), photos of the lives in the slums of New York

Who was Upton Sinclair?

he wrote "The Jungle" and exposed the meat packing industry, muckraker

Settlement house founder

Jane Addams

Period 7: Progressive Presidents

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson

Teddy Roosevelt

26th President, passed two acts that purified meat, Went after trusts, wanted to build the Panama canal, and make our Navy (military stronger)

Roosevelt Corollary

Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force

When did WWI start and when did America declare/join war

1914, 1917

Who led the country to war in WWI?

Woodrow Wilson

Economic/social impact of WWi

Sped up American industrial production/economic boom in the 20s

When could women vote?

1920, 19th amendment

End of WWI or aftermath at home

Treaty of Versailles, equal rights, women's rights, larger role in world affairs

1920s

Prohibition, Harlem Renaissance, Women's roles, radio, The Crash, The Great Depression

Who was president when The Crash happened?

Herbert Hoover

When did FDR first become president?

1933

What helped farmers?

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

What helped unions?

National Industrial Recovery Act

What helped retired people

Social Security Act

What finally ended the Great Depression?

WWII, when millions of jobs were created for war industries

When was Pearl Harbor?

1941

After Pearl Harbor, what was first?

U.S. declared war on Japan, entering WWII

President that decided to use atomic bombs against Japan?

Harry Truman

Organization created at the end of WWII?

United Nations

When did WWII end?

1945