Creating a New World
This country owned all of the colonies that later went on to become the first 13 states.
What is England or Great Britain?
The colonists went to war for their independence because they were being denied this.
What are natural rights?
This was added to the Constitution to make the Anti-Federalists happy.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The U.S. had a strong sense of this after maintaining its independence in the War of 1812.
What is nationalism?
This was the primary economic way of life for southern states and the main cause of the American Civil War?
What is slavery?
Most of the colonies exported these to England which benefited the monarchy.
What are cash crops?
Colonists were upset about taxation because they did not have this?
What is representation?
This body determines if government decisions are fair according to the Constitution.
What is the judicial Branch or Supreme Court?
President Andrew Jackson made this controversial decision that continued a strained relationship with Native Americans.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
People like Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglas who gave personal speeches about slavery were important figures of this movement.
What is the abolitionist movement?
The group of people who settled Massachusetts with a strict and religious government.
What are the Puritans?
This was the event that caused the colonists to pay unwanted taxes.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was added within the three branches of government to limit their power.
What are checks and balances?
This was the idea that the United States would become a "continental nation" in order to lead the rest of the world in the ideas of capitalism and democracy.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the period after the Civil War when the government was lenient on southern readmission which led to discrimination against blacks.
What is Reconstruction?
Cobblers, coopers, blacksmiths, and wood-workers are all examples of these Middle Colonies experts.
What are artisans?
Colonists became upset when the Parliament placed a monopoly on this.
What is tea?
This was the problem with the initial government of the United States.
What is a lack of authority or power?
This purchase from France gave the United States river and ocean access for trade and fertile farmland.
The southern states who seceded from the Union in 1861 did so for this reason.
What is protection of states' rights?
This "bright" movement inspired colonies and people to begin to question their government and the world around them.
What is the Enlightenment?
The colonists used this method of protest to stop the Stamp Act.
What is a boycott?
To make law-making fair between smaller populated states and larger populated states, the Founding Fathers created this type of legislature.
What is a bi-cameral or two-house legislature?
The United States gained present-day California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah by this.
What is a war with Mexico (Mexican-American War)?
For nearly a century after the Civil War, blacks and whites were segregated in society during this era?
What is Jim Crow?