Colonial America
Virginia
What was the name of the first permanent English colony in North America?
Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and Coercive Acts
What were the laws that Great Britain made for the English colonies that raised colonists' taxes and punished them when they protested?
The US Constitution
Which document replaces the Articles of Confederation (the first constitution of the US)?
George Washington
Who was the first president of the US?
Indian Removal Act
What was the law that authorized the removal of Native American living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river?
What were the three different types of English Colonies?
Lexington and Concord
What were the first battles of the Revolutionary War?
The legislative, executive, and judicial branches
What are the three branches of government created by the US Constitution?
Whiskey Rebellion
What was the event where farmers refused to pay taxes on the whiskey they made during 1794?
The Trail of Tears
What is the name for the Cherokee's 800 mile forced march (about 25% of the Cherokee died during this march) from Georgia to Indian Country in what is now Oklahoma?
African/African American slave labor
What was the basis of the cash crop (tobacco, cotton, indigo, etc) agricultural economy of the Southern colonies?
Declaration of Independence
What was the document written by Thomas Jefferson that declares the English colonies' independence from Great Britain?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Treaty of Greenville
Which treaty ends the fighting in the Northwest Territory between the US and Native Americans and allows the US to claim most lands in the Northwest Territory (these lands would become the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin)?
From the US to Mexico
What was the direction of illegal immigration between the US and Mexico during the 1820s and 1830s?
French and Indian War
What was the war between Great Britain, the English colonies, and their Native American allies versus France and their Native American allies during the 1750s?
Battle of Yorktown
What was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War and was a Patriot victory?
Impeachment
What is the process under which Congress can remove any federal official (including the president) from office?
The Louisiana Territory (the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River)
What is the land President Jefferson buys from France for $15 million in 1803?
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
What is the name of the peace treaty that ends the US-Mexican War?
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Which treaty ends the French and Indian War and forces France to give Great Britain Canada and all of North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River?
Treaty of Paris of 1783
What was the treaty that ends the Revolutionary War and results in American independence?
Judicial review
What is the power of the US Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress and/or the President unconstitutional?
Missouri Compromise
What compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state?
California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming
What are the states that would be created out of the territory the US takes from Mexico?