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1. Jeopardy Period 1 1491-1607 Period 2: 1607-1754 Period 3: 1754-1800 Period 4: 1800-1848 Period5: 1844-1877 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

2. These are the reasons that the Spanish came to North America. What is gold, god and glory? 1 - $100

3. 1 - $200 • This was the labor system in the Spanish colonies that utilized Indian labor. • What is encomienda system?

4. 1 - $300 • The cultivation of this crop supported economic development & social diversification among societies in Mexico & American Southwest • What is maize?

5. 1 - $400 • This is what many Europeans used to justify their subjugation of Africans and American Indians. • What is white superiority?

6. 1 - $500 • These two men debated how “civilized” Native Americans were and how they should be treated. • Juan de Sepulveda and Bartolome de las Casas

7. 2 - $100 • This group used trade alliances and intermarriage with American Indians to acquire furs and other products for export. • Who are the French (and Dutch)?

8. 2 - $200 • This group founded the New England colonies. (Also name their reason for founding) • Who are the Puritans? Founded to establish a community of like-minded religious believers.

9. 2 - $300 • List two reasons that the Atlantic slave trade began. • Abundance of land, shortage of indentured servants, lack of an effective means to enslave natives, growing European demand for colonial goods

10. 2 - $400 • This event led to a Spanish accommodation with some aspects of American Indian culture. • What is the Pueblo Revolt?

11. 2 - $500 • Name two factors that led to the Anglicization of in the British colonies. • Growth of autonomous political communities based on English models, development of commercial ties & legal structures, emergence of trans-Atlantic print culture, Protestant Evangelism, religious toleration, spread of European Enlightenment ideas

12. 3 - $100 • Britain’s massive debt from the French and Indian War resulted in this. • Renewed efforts to consolidate control over North American markets

13. 3 - $200 • List two colonial advantages during the Revolutionary War. • What are colonial familiarity with land, resilient military & political leadership, ideological commitment, support from European allies

14. 3 - $300 • The independence movement was fueled by the ideas of this movement. • What is Enlightenment?

15. 3 - $400 • The colonists’ belief in the superiority of republican self-government found its clearest American expression in this document (1 of 2 choices) • What is Common Sense of Declaration of Independence?

16. 3 - $500 • This diplomatic initiative sought to manage conflict with Spain regarding free navigation of the Mississippi River. • What is Pinckney’s Treaty?

17. 4 - $100 • Name two inventions during this time period that extended markets and brought efficiency to production for those markets. • What is textile machinery, steam engines, interchangeable parts, canals, railroads, telegraph, steel plow, mechanical reaper

18. 4 - $200 • These were the two major political parties that developed as part of the second political party system. • What are the Democrats and the Whigs?

19. 4 - $300 • This created a truce over the issue of slavery, but later broke down as confrontations over slavery became increasingly bitter. • What is the Missouri Compromise.

20. 4 - $400 • Name one Supreme Court case that sought to assert federal power over state laws • What is McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden.

21. 4 - $500 • Name all three parts to Henry Clay’s American System. • What is tariff, national bank, and internal improvements? (Sought to create a unified national economy)

22. 5 - $100 • This idea asserted U.S. power in the Western Hemisphere & supported U.S. Expansion Westward. • What is Manifest Destiny?

23. 5 - $200 • This Supreme Court Case established that slaves are property of their masters and are not citizens. • What is Dred Scott decision?

24. 5 - $300 • This event caused Southern states to secede, leading to the Civil War. • What is Lincoln’s election on a free soil platform in 1860?

25. 5 - $400 • Name two Union Advantages during the Civil War. • Improved military leadership, more effective strategies, key victories, greater resources, wartime destruction of the South’s environment & infrastructure

26. 5 - $500 • This group tried to establish a base for their party in the south after the Civil War, but ultimately failed due to determined southern resistance & waning resolve. • Who are the Radical Republicans?

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