1. Focus point 1
The war provided Great Britain with territorial gains.
What did Great Britain gain from the French and Indian War?
Gave congress the power to pass laws.
What was a strength of the Articles of Confederation?
George Mason.
Who helped develop the Bill of Rights?
France provided aid to America during the Revolutionary War.
Who provided aid to America during the Revolutionary War?
The Adams-Onis Treaty.
What treaty ceded Florida to the US?
After the Pontiac's Rebellion, the Proclamation of 1763 was made.
What was made due to Pontiac's Rebellion?
It was one factor that created the US Constitution.
How did Shay's Rebellion change the US?
The Whigs.
What political party opposed Andrew Jackson?
The Louisiana Purchase.
What purchase costed $15 million?
The Revolutionary War.
The Spanish sent supplies to the US during what war?
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachain Mountains.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What guaranteed basic rights for all citizens?
The Bill of Rights.
Freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition are all parts of what?
Impressment.
What word describes when men were captured and forced into naval service.
Texas.
Disagreement with slavery, no education, and a "bad" president, all what state to declare independence from Mexico in 1836?
To unite the 8 colonies
What was the meaning behind Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die" cartoon?
The 3/5ths Compromise.
What compromise said that each slave would be considered 3/5ths a person for purposes of taxes and representation?
The Federalist Papers.
The War of 1812, where the US fought against Britain and their Indian allies.
What was considered "America's Second War for Independence" and for what reason?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What treaty added 525,000 square miles to the US?
The Intolerable Acts.
What Act was passed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their actions during the Boston Tea Party as a reaction due to the changes in taxation?
Prominent Federalists.
Who were James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay known as?
The Spoils System.
What gave pubic office to its supporters?
The Oregon Treaty of 1846, which was between the US and Britain.
What ratified the 49th parallel and who was in dispute over the land?
The Gadsden Purchase.
What was the agreement between the US and Mexico where the US agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico?