Colonial America
An original document or firsthand account from a historical time period.
What is a primary source?
Britain's reason for taxing the colonies after the French and Indian War.
What is Debt from the war
The turning point battle of the American Revolution that convinced France to help the colonies.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
The system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the others.
What are checks and balances?
Thomas Jefferson's purchase that doubled the size of the United States
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The colonial belief that Parliament could not tax them without representation.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
The treaty that officially ended the American Revolution.
What was the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
The presidential power used to reject a bill passed by Congress
What is a veto?
The forced relocation of the Cherokee people to present-day Oklahoma.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The colony founded by Pilgrims seeking religious freedom.
What was Plymouth, Massachusetts?
The patriot who used an engraving of the Boston Massacre as propaganda.
Who was Paul Revere?
The agreement that created a House based on population and a Senate with equal representation.
What was the Great Compromise?
The branch of government responsible for enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The belief that America was destined to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The colonial region known as the "melting pot" because of its diversity.
What were the Middle Colonies?
The document that stated governments get their power from the people.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Supreme Court case that established judicial review.
What was Marbury v. Madison?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
People who worked to end slavery in the United States.
Who were abolitionists?
The colony founded by William Penn that promoted religious tolerance.
What was Pennsylvania?
The author of Common Sense who encouraged independence from Britain.
Who was Thomas Paine?
The two groups that debated ratification of the Constitution.
Who were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
The five freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
What are freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?
Abraham Lincoln's primary goal when the Civil War began.
What was preserving the Union?