Colonial Foundations
This economic system controlled colonial trade and benefited the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Colonial protest against British taxes became known by this slogan.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
The first U.S. government was established by this document.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
In Regents essays, this type of relationship explains how one event changed history significantly.
Turning point
This document established self-government in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This compromise created a two-house legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This belief claimed the U.S. was destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This cash crop helped Jamestown survive economically.
What is tobacco?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
These essays supported ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This Enlightenment idea stated that government gets its power from the consent of the governed.
Social Contract
This battle was the turning point of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This principle divides power among the three branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
This doctrine warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This transportation project connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
This Enlightenment thinker believed people had natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This amendment protects freedoms like speech and religion.
What is the First Amendment?
This war increased American nationalism and is sometimes called the “Second War for Independence.”
What is the War of 1812?
This trail became known for the forced relocation of the Cherokee.
What is the Trail of Tears?