Independence
This document declared the American colonies’ independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This document established the first form of government for the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This country wins the Mexican-American War.
What is the United States?
This event describes the forced movement of Native Americans from the Southeast to reservations in the West.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This amendment to the Constitution protects freedom of speech and religion.
What is the first amendment?
This phrase refers to the colonists fighting for their ability to have voice in government(taxes)
What is "no taxation without representation"?
Which document serves as the supreme law of the land in the United States?
What is the Constitution?
This country controls the land west of the Mississippi before the Mexican-American War(they own Texas and California before the war).
What is Mexico?
This state attempts to remove the Cherokee Indians from their land, and moves them to Oklahoma.
What is Georgia?
What are the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution called?
What are the Bill of Rights?
This event resulted in the dumping of tea in the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Articles of Confederation DO NOT have the power to impose this thing that helped generate money for the government.
What are taxes?
What is Manifest Destiny?
This President signs the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This word describes a citizen army. Typical of states before we had a national military.
What is a militia?
This event resulted in British Soldiers killing the colonists after they threw rocks at them.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This man is known as the Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
This man was president during the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
This state is the main focus of expanding west. Controlled by Mexico before the war, and the US after.
What is Texas?
This court blocks the state of Georgia from trying to remove the Cherokee, but they are ignored.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This amendment protects against the Quartering Act?
What is the Third Amendment?
This treaty ends the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This tribe is forcibly removed from Georgia and moved to Oklahoma.
Who are the Cherokee?
This is the main reason colonists want to annex Texas; this issue eventually leads to the civil war.
What is slavery?