Colonial America
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What act in 1765 required colonists to pay for an official stamp on paper goods?
Stamp act
Who was the first president of the US
George Washington
What invention increased the demand for slave labor in the south?
Cotton gin
Election of Abraham Lincoln
What document established self government for the pilgrims?
Mayflower compact
What was the main goal of the Declaration of Independence?
To justify the colonies independence from Britain
Which event challenged the authority of the new US government?
Whiskey rebellion
What belief justified US expansion across North America?
Manifest destiny
What speech redefined the purpose of the civil war?
Gettysburg address
Which colony was founded as a refuge for catholics?
Maryland
What treaty officially ended the American revolution in 1783?
Treaty of Paris
What case established judicial review?
Marbury vs Madison
Who led the Seneca Falls convention and called for women's suffrage?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th amendment
What system granted land to settlers who paid for someone's passage to Virginia?
Headright system?
What rebellion exposed the weakness of the articles of confederation?
Shay's rebellion
What land deal doubled the size of the US in 1803?
Lousiana purchase
What compromise allowed missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state?
Missouri compromise
What laws were passed in the south to restrict african american rights after the war?
black codes
What 1676 rebellion exposed tensions between poor farmers and elite in Virginia?
Bacon's Rebellion
What compromise fixed the representation in congress during the constitutional convention?
Great Compromise
What doctrine warned Europe to stay out of the western hemisphere?
Monroe doctrine
Willian Lloyd Garrison
What compromise ended reconstruction in 1877?
Compromise of 1877