Colonies and Revolution
Define the Magna Carta
What is a document limiting the power of the English king and guaranteeing certain rights for Englishmen.
Define federalism.
What is division of power among federal and state governments
What is from the Mississippi River to Colorado Mountains.
What did William Proviso call for?
What is a ban on slavery in any territory the US gained from Mexico.
What did the Democrats believe about slavery?
What is slavery should be up-held and expanded to the territories.
Where did England establish its 13 colonies?
What is the mid-Atlantic coast of America
Define separation of powers
What is division of government into groups to limit its power.
A Texan military leader and the first president of the Republic of Texas.
What is or who is Sam Houston
What was mean by the term "Free Soil"
What is to prevent expansion of slavery in western territories.
What did Lincoln believe about slavery?
What is it should end.
Describe the House of Burgesses.
What is a partnership with a royal governor appointed by the king to govern the colony.
Women had the right to vote until
What is 1807.
In order to stop the British from attacking American merchant ships America declared an
What is an Embargo on British goods.
What is the fugitive Slave Act
What is to arrest any person of trying to escape slavery, deny fugitives trial by jury, and require all person to help capture run-away-slaves.
What did southern states decide to recede from the United States of America?
What is the president's opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.
Colonist who refused to honor boycotts of British good were called
What is Loyalists.
The Northwest Territory is located north of
What is the Ohio River and stretched from Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River.
The Nullification Act serve what purpose.
What is a peaceful exchange of Indian lands in the South for new Indian Territory ( in Oklahoma)
When did Kansas enter the Union as a free state?
What is 1861.
What does the Republican party believe about slavery?
What is it should end.
A Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.
What is or who is Charles Carroll
Who were the leading Federalist
What is or who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.
Why did the demand for cotton increase?
What is the industrial mills in the north needed the cotton.
What was the result of the ruling Dred Scot v. Sandford?
What is African American were not citizen and were not allowed to sue in courts.
Who won the election of 1860?
Who is Lincoln.