From Colony to Country
This 1776 document declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These first ten amendments protect individual liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This compromise was the first attempt to balance free and slave state representation in Congress.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This post Civil War system kept many farmers in debt.
What is sharecropping?
This Enlightenment philosopher’s ideas on natural rights influenced the Declaration.
Who is John Locke?
This clause settled how enslaved persons would be counted for representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This law removed Native Americans from their ancestral lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This alliance helped secure American independence from Britain.
What is France?
These writings opposed ratification due to the absence of explicit protections for individual rights.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This document warned Europe against further colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This novel intensified sectional tensions over slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This act divided the South into military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Acts?
This 1781 battle effectively ended major fighting in the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature based on population and equality.
What is the Great Compromise?
This 1794 event tested the federal government’s ability to enforce its laws.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This doctrine let settlers vote on slavery in new territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
These laws were enacted to restrict African Americans’ freedoms after the war.
What are Black Codes?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued for complete independence.
What is Common Sense?
This document established the first national government of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Supreme Court case strengthened judicial review during John Marshall’s tenure.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
John Brown attempted to arm slaves when he attacked this federal arsenal.
What is Harpers’ Ferry?
This individual was the main leader of the Radical Republicans.
Who is Thaddeus Steven’s?