Politics
This 1776 document formally announced the colonies’ separation from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This 1764 British law lowered the tax on molasses but increased enforcement, angering colonial merchants.
What is the Sugar Act?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This 1770 event involved British soldiers killing five colonists, becoming a propaganda tool.
What is the Boston Massacre?
his principle, established in 1803, allows the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This 1620 document established self-government for Pilgrims in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What 1765 act taxed printed materials and angered colonists?
The Stamp Act
This region relied on small farms, fishing, and shipbuilding due to poor soil.
Response: What is New England?
This labor system involved workers who exchanged years of service for passage to America.
What is indentured servitude?
This case established the Supreme Court’s authority to review acts of Congress.
Response: What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1754 plan proposed colonial unity under a central government, though it was never adopted.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
What rebellion in 1786–1787 highlighted economic instability under the Articles?
Shay's Rebellion
This 1787 law established a system for settling and governing land north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This religious revival in the 1730s–1740s emphasized emotional preaching and personal faith.
What is the Great Awakening?
This concept states that federal law overrides conflicting state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This early U.S. governing document created a weak central government with no executive branch.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This economic system tied colonies to the mother country through trade restrictions and raw material exports.
What is mercantilism?
What 1763 proclamation restricted settlement west of this mountain range?
Proclamation of 1763
This group, led by John Winthrop, sought to build a “city upon a hill” in Massachusetts.
Who are the Puritans?
This document outlines the structure of the judicial branch in Article III.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a bicameral legislature balancing large and small states.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This 1791 plan proposed a national bank and federal assumption of state debts.
What is Hamilton’s Financial Plan?
What 1783 treaty ended the Revolutionary War and gave the U.S. land to the Mississippi River?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia was led by frontier settlers angry over Native American policy.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This early debate over the Constitution centered on how it should be interpreted
What is the strict vs. loose interpretation debate?