Early Colonization
What was carved into the tree in the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
What is CRO?
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
What is
-too weak
-national gov't had no power
Who created the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Who is John Adams?
What is an abolitionist?
A person who wants to abolish and get rid of slavery completely.
Which group of colonies primarily relied on fishing and shipbuilding?
What are the New England colonies?
What is the slogan that colonists yelled when they were angry about taxes?
What is "no taxation without representation?"
State the difference between a federalist and an anti-federalist and what they fought for.
Federalist: Strong national govt, balance between state and national gov't, no bill of rights
Anti-Federalist: weak national govt, power to the states, bill of rights, against the signing the constitution.
What is one key event of the war of 1812?
What is
-burning of the white house
-national anthem being written by Francis Scott Key
-battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson = war hero
Define Manifest Destiny.
What is the belief United States was divinely ordained by God to expand its territory and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent?
Where is Pennsylvania?
What were the motives of both patriots and loyalists?
Patriots: Wanted freedom from Great Britain and the King
Loyalists: Were loyal to the King
Define "The Great Compromise"?
What is the idea to separate Congress into the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Federalist Alexander Hamilton created this after battles with Anti-Federalist Thomas Jefferson.
What is the national bank?
Who were the two abolitionists who used the method of writing and speeches to convey their ideas about the horrors of slavery?
Who are Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe?
What were the two sides in the French and Indian War?
What is the French/Indigenous fought against the British?
Name the first battle of the American Revolution?
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
What is...
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine was a foundational United States foreign policy established in 1823. It declared that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits to further European colonization and interference.
Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act problematic?
What is because it repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing for slavery to spread into new areas?
Name the 3 groups of Europeans who first colonized the Americas and their reasoning. 1/2 point if you can name all 3, full if you name reasoning.
Who were:
-Spanish: Quest for gold
-English: Wanted to make a settlement
-French: Fur trade
Name 2 diverse groups that also contributed to the Revolution.
Who were: Homefront supporters (women), Military Spies, French Allies, Indigenous allies, boycotters, writers?
Amendment=An addition or alteration to a constitution, statute, or bill.
Any of the first 10 amendments.
What was the Indian Removal Act? Which President signed the act? Who did it affect?
What is the president could grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. Andrew Jackson was the president. It affected Indigenous people who were forced out of their territory.
2 part question:
What is secession?
Based on your knowledge about the growing conflict over slavery, which region do you believe seceded from the union?
What is the South?