Road to Revolution
This was the war between the Great Britain and France in North America; it led to massive debts that the British taxed the colonists to pay.
French and Indian War
The leader of the Continental Army, first President of the US
George Washington
Colonists who did not want to leave the British Empire
Loyalists
What was America's governing document before the Constitution?
Articles of Confederation
President of the US during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
The prohibited the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
Wrote the Declaration of Independence, President during the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
What the colonist army were called
Minutemen or Continental Army
The idea that America should expand from the east coast to the west coast, and it was our God given right to do so
Manifest Destiny
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this forced Northern states to return escaped formerly enslaved people; tensions grew between the North and the South
Fugitive Slave Law
An incident in Massachusetts during which British soldiers shot into a crowd of colonists protesting taxes
Boston Massacre
One of the primary conductors on the Underground Railroad, she served as a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War
Harriet Tubman
What the colonists were called who wanted to leave the British empire
Patriots
The name of the path that the Cherokee of Georgia, NC, Tennessee, and Alabama were forced to take; approximately 4,000 dies from exposure, disease, and starvation.
Trail of Tears
Loyalty to your own region or state over the country as a whole; considered one of the major causes of the war
The system in which the British colonized North America to make money (North America provided resources for Great Britain, Great Britain made money by selling finished products in North America).
What is mercantilism
From 2000 to 2008, U.S. "golden" dollar coins were minted with an image of what Shoshone woman who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Sacagawea
Name 10 of the 13 original colonies
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina
When new states entered the US, the primary cause of tension was if they would allow this; Bleeding Kansas was a period of political violence when settlers were fighting over this issue
Slavery
Anaconda Plan
Name 2 of the laws/ decreese/ taxes that were passed by the British leading up to the American Revolution.
Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, Coercive Acts, Tea Act, Navigation Acts
Who Was The First Secretary Of The Treasury Of The United States? He was also a leader of the Federalists during the Constitutional Convention, and Lin Manuel Miranda wrote a musical about him
Alexander Hamilton
The name of the secret society that fought the British; they planned the Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty
This treaty ended the Mexican American War, and America gained land including California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of several others.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis