Government
These three branches of government contain the President, the Supreme Court, and Congress.
What are the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches?
American colonists that sided with Britain during the Revolutionary war are known by this name.
What are Loyalists?
True of False: Most early explorers before Columbus believed that the earth was flat.
What is TRUE?
Columbus knew the earth was round and thought the Atlantic Ocean would lead him to India.
This invention dramatically increased the demand for slave labor for cash cropping in the South.
What is the Cotton Gin?
True of False: Abraham Lincoln campaigned on abolishing slavery.
What is FALSE?
He campaigned on stopping the spread of slavery to new states.
This Supreme Court decision determined that slaves were property rather than humans. It said they did not have rights, even in free states.
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford?
This word describes when a country imposes taxes on imported goods such as tea.
What is a tariff?
True or False: The Northern Colonies had fertile soil that was ideal for mass farming.
What is FALSE?
The Northern colonies were too rocky and cold for mass farming and relied on other economic systems. Mass farming thrived in Southern states.
This is the word for the fight for women's right to vote in America.
What is suffrage?
This battle was considered a turning point in the Civil War and prompted a famous speech from Lincoln.
What is Gettysburg?
The Articles of Confederation were considered weak because the ______ government was too strong and the ______ government was too weak.
What is the STATE and FEDERAL government?
Because of the Mercantile economic system, The British empire was using their colonies to gain this.
What are natural resources/raw materials?
This is the name of the boat that brought Puritans to Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This economic system focused on country's gaining wealth from the natural resources of other countries and pre-dated Capitalism.
What is Mercantilism?
True of False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves.
What is FALSE?
The Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves of the Confederate states to be free but could not be enforced properly by the North. Many people remained in slavery until after the war.
This compromise determined that the each state would have 2 senators and each's state's house would be determined by population.
What is the Great Compromise?
This was the rallying cry of American colonists and the root cause of the Revolutionary War.
What is "Taxation Without Representation"?
This phenomenon resulted in the mass trade of crops, people, ideas, and disease between the Old and New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Naturally occurring things that people are born with and can't have taken away (Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness).
What are unalienable rights?
This agreement added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in 1821.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
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Legislative Branch ________ laws.
Executive Branch ________ laws.
Judicial Branch ________ laws.
What is CREATES, ENFORCES, & INTERPRETS laws?
This war put Britain into massive debt and caused many conflicts between Britain and the colonies before the revolution.
What is the French & Indian War/7 Years War?
This is the name of the slave trade route between Africa and the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
Thomas Jefferson gained territory at a cheap price from France in 1803 with this deal.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Instead of slavery, the South argued that they were leaving the Union for this reason.
What are state's rights?