Road to Revolution
This protest involved colonists destroying East India Company cargo in December 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This first national governing framework created a weak central government and left most authority with the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These formal additions allow the nation’s governing framework to be changed without replacing it entirely.
What are Amendments?
Jefferson approved this massive 1803 territorial acquisition despite concerns about whether the Constitution explicitly authorized it.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This invention greatly increased the profitability of Southern agriculture and contributed to the expansion of slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
These resistance organizations organized boycotts, protests, and political activism against British policies.
Who are the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
This postwar social ideal argued that women helped preserve the republic by raising educated, virtuous citizens.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This system divides governing authority between national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This European conflict divided Americans over whether the United States should support republican movements abroad.
What is the French Revolution?
This broad economic transformation increased mechanized production, factory labor, and the use of machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This Massachusetts activist became one of the most important organizers of colonial resistance and popular protest.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This 1785 measure divided western territory into rectangular townships and sections for sale and settlement.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This Virginian played a central role in the Philadelphia convention and later helped defend ratification in a major series of essays.
Who is James Madison?
Announced in 1823, this policy warned European powers against establishing new colonies or intervening in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Textile mills in Massachusetts recruited young unmarried women who lived in company-supervised boardinghouses in this system.
What is the Lowell System?
Delegates from twelve colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774 to coordinate a response to Britain’s punitive measures.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This 1787 measure created a territorial government, established a path to statehood, and prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
There’s no football team or mascot in this presidential selection system created out of concerns about congressional control over the executive branch.
What is the Electoral College?
This controversial agreement reduced tensions with Britain but angered critics who believed it favored British interests.
What is Jay’s Treaty?
Completed in 1825, this transportation project linked the Great Lakes region to the Hudson River and Atlantic markets.
What is the Erie Canal?
This dockworker, killed during a 1770 confrontation, became an early symbol used by Patriots to condemn British military presence.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This Massachusetts uprising revealed how difficult it was for the national government to respond to domestic unrest under the existing system.
What is Shays’s Rebellion?
By assigning lawmaking, enforcement, and interpretation to different branches, the framers sought to prevent one institution from controlling all national authority.
What is separation of powers?
During peace talks with France, American diplomats reported that 3 unknown French representatives demanded bribes before formal talks could proceed.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This 1842 state court ruling held that organized activity was not automatically an unlawful criminal conspiracy, leading to the first labor union.
What is Commonwealth v. Hunt?