Constitution & Government
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitution?
This was the first government of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The first battles of the American Revolution occurred here.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This colony survived because of tobacco.
What is Jamestown?
Most historians believe the first people reached the Americas using this route.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This slogan summarized colonial opposition to British taxes.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
This invention made cotton production more profitable and the conditions of slavery more brutal.
What is Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin?
This principle divides power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
Under the Articles, Congress could not do this to raise money.
What is collect taxes?
Colonists who supported independence were called this.
Who are Patriots?
The House of Burgesses was an example of this colonial idea.
What is self-government?
Different Native American cultures developed mainly because of differences in these two things.
What are geography and climate?
These explorers mapped and studied the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This act taxed newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This canal connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
This principle allows each branch to limit the power of the other branches.
What are Checks and Balances?
This rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Colonists who remained loyal to Britain were called this.
Who are Loyalists?
This is the name for the Quaker's acceptance of all religions.
What is religious toleration?
This law forced many Native Americans to move west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This belief said the United States was destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This voyage brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Articles created a weak government because Americans feared this.
What is a powerful central government?
This battle convinced France to support the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Fishing, shipbuilding, and trade were important in this colonial region.
What is New England?
The forced relocation of the Cherokee is known by this name.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This president acquired the Louisiana Territory from France because he wanted control over New Orleans.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Britain passed these laws after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This document declared American independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This court case established Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Name two major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Examples: no taxes, no executive branch, no national court system, difficult to amend.
This battle effectively ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Large plantations and cash crops were most common in this colonial region.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Native Americans adapted to their environments in order to do this.
What is survive/meet their needs?
This war helped the United States gain territory in the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The main reason colonists objected to taxes was because they lacked this in Parliament.
What is representation?
The principal author of the Declaration of Independence was this person.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?