US History 1
Group of department heads who advise the president.
What is a cabinet?
The first permanent British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The group of religious settlers who founded Plymouth colony.
Who were Puritans?
3 regions of original colonies
What are New England, Middle and Southern Colonies?
The branch of government that interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
George Washington was general in this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The Act established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
The idea that the power to rule comes from the votes of the people is known as:
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The two main groups fighting in the French and Indian War.
Who were the French and the British?
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
The Federalists strongly supported this type of government.
What is a strong centralized government?
He was a French aristocrat who fought in the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolution.
Who was Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette?
Which document was made to cut ties between the 13 colonies and Great Britain?
The Declaration of Independence
A foundational United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism and foreign interference in the Western Hemisphere. It asserts that the Americas and Europe are separate spheres of influence, and any foreign intervention in the region is a direct threat to U.S. security.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
Based on the U.S. Constitution, the government is run by this.
What is The people?
The day the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is July, 4th. 1776?
He wrote an autobiography about his life as a slave who managed to gain his freedom.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is The Preamble?
This amendment guarantees the right to protest
What is the 1st Amendment?
The process of adding a piece of land or territory to a country.
What is annexation?
President involved with the nullification crisis, war with the National Bank, and Indian Removal.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
What was the name of the meeting where the Constitution was drafted?
Constitutional Convention
The group of people who were loyal to King George III and Britain but living in the colonies during the American Revolution.
Who were Loyalists?
Cotton, indigo and tobacco are examples of this type of product.
What is a cash crop?
The colonial Atlantic route, which operated in three distinct "legs" to sustain the global economy through the exploitation and forced labor of enslaved people.
What is Triangle Trade?
Thomas Paine
Who wrote Common Sense?
The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing in the U.S.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This branch is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Also known as the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations, are an alliance of Indigenous peoples originally inhabiting what is now upstate New York and parts of the northeastern United States and Canada.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
The first incident of bloodshed of the American Revolution started with a snowball fight and ended with the death of the sailor Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
All land west of this line was designated as a vast Native American reserve, closed off to unauthorized colonial settlement.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
A transaction in which the size of the United States was doubled for $10 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Constitution was written to replace this document
What is the The Articles of Confederation?
An English philosopher who developed the concept of the Social Contract.
Who is John Locke?
An 1820 act of the U.S. Congress that temporarily balanced the political power of slave and free states. It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30′ parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The belief that Americans were meant to colonize the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
What is Manifest Destiny?
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony, signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims. It was a written agreement to establish a "civil body politic" and create laws for the general good of the colony, marking a foundational step toward self-government in America.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
A group of girls accused several community members (including Tituba, an enslaved Indian woman) of witchcraft, leading to a wave of accusations, 19 executions, and over 150 imprisonments.
What was The Salem Witch Trials?
The leader of Britain during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?