Colonial Roots
The first permanent colony in British North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
The ideal condition where everyone is treated the same.
What is equality?
This was the rallying cry for many Americans who hated Great Britain's Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and other taxation laws.
This "first draft" of government had many problems that the Constitution aimed to solve.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This is Mr. Aytes's sweet little puppy's name.
Who is Kip/Kipper?
The document that established self-government in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The founding ideal that the Louisiana Purchase furthered for Euro-American settlers.
What is opportunity?
These laws were implemented in the colonies as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What were The Intolerable Acts?
This is the type of government where power is shared between the states and a central government.
What is federalism?
This is how Puritans celebrated Thanksgiving, a holiday which we now celebrate with lots of food.
What is fasting and prayer?
This crop resulted in the economic success of Jamestown, Virginia.
The Bill of Rights were an additional safeguard on _______, one of the founding principles.
What is liberty?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are examples of these.
These are the so-called natural rights identified in the Declaration of Independence.
In this type of government, the people elect representatives to make decisions.
What is a republic?
This is Mr. Sparks's pet snake's name.
What is nothing, because Mr. Sparks has no pets?
To reform the Church of England / to purify religious practice.
What is democracy?
This document justified the abolition of ties between Great Britain and the United States.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This fear is what made many people in early America afraid of having a President.
What is fear of monarchy?
* gender conflict * conflict over land * actual witchcraft * ergot * religious extremism
This important event occurred in 1619, in Jamestown.
When were Africans first sold into slavery in British North America?
This conflict created massive war debts, resulting in Great Britain raising taxes on its North American colonies.
What is the French and Indian War? OR What is the Seven Years War?
According to James Madison, this was as great a threat to liberty as government.
What is the uncontrolled will of citizens against each other?
This is Mr. Aytes's favorite period of American History.
What is antebellum America?
What is early modern/colonial America?
What is modern America, between 1914 and 1941?