The American Revolution
This law taxed paper goods like newspapers, playing cards, and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
Many colonists came to America for this reason, especially groups like the Pilgrims and Quakers.
What is religious freedom?
This Native American group is known for building pyramids and having an advanced calendar.
Who are the Maya?
This first U.S. government was too weak because it couldn't collect taxes or enforce laws.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This branch makes the laws and includes Congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This man wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense that convinced many colonists to support independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
There were 13 colonies, divided into these 3 regions.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern?
This South American civilization built a large empire in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Inca?
This document begins with the words “We the People” and explains how the U.S. government should work.
What is the Constitution?
This is the highest court in the U.S. and is part of the Judicial Branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
Colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor during this protest against British taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These were crops like tobacco and cotton, grown mainly to sell for money.
What are cash crops?
One reason Native American groups were different from each other was because they lived in different ___?
What are environments?
This part of the Constitution protects basic rights like freedom of speech and religion.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This word means the president rejects a law passed by Congress.
What is a veto?
This document, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, explained why the colonies were breaking away from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This woman challenged religious rules and was banished from her colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This time of change in Europe led people to question old ideas and explore new lands.
What is the Renaissance?
This agreement said 3 out of every 5 enslaved people would count for population and taxes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This group officially elects the president of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
This battle was a turning point in the war and helped convince France to join the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This agreement was made by the Pilgrims to create fair laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This European invention helped spread ideas quickly by making books faster and cheaper to produce.
What is the printing press?
He helped write the Constitution and kept careful notes of what happened at the convention.
Who is James Madison?
This process can remove a president or judge from office if they break the law.
What is impeachment?