0.1 Colonies & Revolution
An inciting moment of the Revolution where British soldiers fired into a crowd of American colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This document officially created the first framework of the United States Government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The amount paid for the Louisiana Purchase.
What is $15 million?
The name for having people directly vote and decide on an issue.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Issued by Lincoln in 1863, it declared all persons held as slaves were forever free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The name of a pamphlet that spread revolutionary ideas throughout the American colonies and criticized the role of kings.
What is Common Sense?
A series of essays written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay that supported the Constitution.
What were the Federalist Papers?
The legislation that led to the displacement of thousands of Cherokee people out of the south.
What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
It made California a free state, but allowed other Mexican territories to vote on slavery.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Fill in the blank: ________________, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
What is Four Score and Seven Years Ago?
The first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
It banned slavery in the new territories gained after the Revolutionary War.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
An early political party that wanted to promote agrarian economics, a small government, and ally closely with France.
What is the Democratic Republicans?
The man Abraham Lincoln lost the Illinois senate seat to.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The strategic plan of the North to slowly strangle the supply lines and territory of the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
A historical document that the colonists referenced that limited the powers of a king.
What is the Magna Carta?
Dividing power between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
The idea that the United States would stay out of Europe and in turn, Europe should stay out of the Americas.
What is Monroe Doctrine?
The first state to leave the Union.
What is South Carolina?
The month, day, and year that the Civil War begins.
What is April 12, 1861?
Acts passed in response to the Boston Tea party that punished the American colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The leader of a farmer and veteran revolt that showed how weak the national government was before the Constitution.
Who is Daniel Shays?
Three of the four Whig Presidents.
Who is William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore.?
The town where Bleeding Kansas first began.
What is Lawrence, Kansas?
The first real land battle between Union and Confederates.
What is the Battle of Manassas / First Bull Run?