Road to Revolution
British act that taxed printed materials in the 13 Colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
Document that acts as a formal plan/blue print of government.
What is the Constitution?
What is the change in the way goods were made (by hand --> by machine)?
Large territory bought in 1803 from France.
What is the Louisiana?
1850 law that required all citizens to help return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Well known colonial protest event that led to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Names of the 3 branches of federal gov't.
What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
Country where industrialization first appeared before in the U.S.
What is Great Britain?
President responsible for signing the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Violent period directly following the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Famous saying that expressed the reason for the colonists' anger towards Britain.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
Amendment that protects citizens' right to free speech, religion, expression, protest.
What is Amendment #1?
Meaning of the term "textiles".
James K. Polk's campaign slogan: "----- or fight!"
What is 54-40?
Event that caused Southern states to secede.
What is the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln?
What is Philadelphia?
The number of Electoral College votes it takes to elect a President.
What is 270?
Building where single mill girls lived.
What is a boarding house?
Definition of the term "annex".
What is to take (territory)?
Additional names for the North and South.
What is the "Union" and the "Confederacy/Confederate States"?
Country whose aide led the colonists to win the Revolutionary War.
What is France?
Amount of support needed for Congress to override a President's veto.
What is 2/3?
Innovation that harnessed steam power to weave thread into fabric.
What is the power loom?
What is the Mexican Cession?
What is Reconstruction?