Road to Revolution
The slogan expressing colonial anger over British taxes.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
America’s first national government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The war fought between the U.S. and Britain from 1812–1815.
What is the War of 1812?
The economic shift from hand production to machine production.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The president associated with Jacksonian Democracy.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The first battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
One major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the inability to tax? (accept others: weak executive, no standing army)
A main cause of the War of 1812 involving American sailors.
What is impressment?
The U.S. region where industrialization began.
What is the Northeast?
Jacksonian Democracy expanded voting rights to this group.
Who are white males?
This 1765 law taxed printed materials and angered colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
This rebellion exposed the weaknesses of the Articles.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
What is impressment?
Who is George Washington?
These allowed products to be made faster and cheaper.
What are interchangeable parts?
Jackson believed he represented the interests of this group.
Who is the “common man”?
This battle convinced France to support the American colonies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The compromise that created a two-house legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This invention revolutionized textile production in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
The presidential power Jackson used frequently to block laws.
What is the veto?
The document that officially ended the American Revolution in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
he plan favored by large states AND the plan favored by small states.
What are the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
One major effect of the War of 1812.
What is increased nationalism?
Henry Clay’s plan to strengthen the U.S. economy through tariffs, banks, and roads.
What is the American System?
Name two groups excluded from Jacksonian Democracy.
Who are women and enslaved people?