Foundations & Early America
This first English settlement in Virginia became a profitable tobacco colony.
What is Jamestown?
This system replaced the Articles of Confederation and created a stronger national government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This belief said the U.S. was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This war (1861–1865) was fought over slavery and states’ rights.
What is the Civil War?
These journalists exposed corruption and social problems in industry.
This 1676 uprising showed conflict between frontier settlers and colonial leadership.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This principle allows courts to strike down unconstitutional laws.
What is judicial review?
This war gave the U.S. the Mexican Cession.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This journalist exposed urban poverty in How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangle Trade?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
(DOUBLE POINTS) What is Marbury v. Madison?
This idea allowed settlers to vote on slavery in territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This company used horizontal integration to control oil.
What is Standard Oil?
This policy allowed colonies to govern themselves with minimal British interference.
What is salutary neglect?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature with equal and population-based representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
This law allowed popular sovereignty and repealed earlier slavery limits.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
These laws restricted rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This factory fire led to stronger workplace safety laws.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This 1763 law banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This plan included a national bank, tariffs, and assumption of state debt.
What is Hamilton’s financial plan?
This violent conflict occurred in Kansas over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This system trapped freed slaves in debt farming.
What is sharecropping?
This amendment created a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?