The Constitution
This was the name of America's first constitution and it had this big problem.
The Articles of Confederation
couldn't enforce taxes, couldn't regulate trade, couldn't be amended with out all states agreeing
These types of companies are responsible for the majority of early British settlement in the Americas.
Double points if you can name 2 of them.
Joint-Stock companies
Virginia Bay Company, Massachusetts Bay Company, British East India Company
This state possesses the 2 oldest British colonies in the Americas. Also, what are the names of those colonies?
Virginia
Roanoke and Jamestown
He became the leader of the Continental army during the American Revolution because he was the only person with military command experience that wasn't already fighting for the British.
George Washington
This president is known as the "Father of the Constitution".
James Madison
What is the concept of putting regional interests ahead of national ones?
sectionalism
This John was the first president to limit the 1st amendment... which he helped to write.
John Adams
What crop was responsible to the success of the Southern colonies and eventual states?
tobacco
President Washington took this stance when France had its Revolution and started a war with England.
neutrality
This compromise resolved the dispute between large and small states by creating a bicameral legislature with representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other?
Double points if you can name the 2 plans it combined
The Great Compromise
(Virginia Plan & New Jersey Plan)
The winning of this battle encouraged others to ally with us allowing us to win the American Revolution.
The Battle of Saratoga
As a compromise for the ratification of the Constitution, these two states each sacrificed a piece of themselves to hold the US capital
Maryland and Viriginia
This British General surrendered at the last major battle of the American Revolution
Cornwallis
These two presidents are the sons of former presidents.
John Q. Adams & George H. W. Bush
This Westward Expansion law created a buddy system to and geographic limits on where slavery was allowed to spread in the Louisiana Territory.
Missouri Compromise
This John shot Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theater in April of 1865
John Wilkes Booth
This invention from 1793 caused the expansion of slavery in the US.
This labor system employed in the Spanish colonies heavily influenced the US plantation system.
encomienda system
This document, largely inspired by Thomas Paine's Common Sense, was the ultimate example of a breakup letter
The Declaration of Independence
Why did European colonizers begin importing African slaves to their American colonies?
they were immune to European diseases, the Natives had largely died out, and there were already established slave markets in Africa
These states exist as a result of the Governor of Massachusetts pushing out non Puritans.
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
During the War of 1812, this American general famously led the defense at the Battle of New Orleans, securing a decisive victory even after the Treaty of Ghent was signed.
Andrew Jackson
This president is responsible for illegally purchasing 2/3 of the continental US
Thomas Jefferson
This law created a standard for how new territories would become new states by establishing population and government necessities.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This British General lost to Horatio Gates at Saratoga.
Burgoyne
Whiskey
This was our foreign policy for 100 years: if Europe does not try to recolonize the Americas, we won't interfere in their wars.
Monroe Doctrine
Name 2 British policies leading up to the American Revolution that became Constitutional Amendments.
1. freedom of assembly
3. Quartering of troops
4. searches and seizures
This pettiest of all wars proved to the colonists that the British army was not actually invincible
The French & Indian War/7 Years War
Following Texas's example, this future state also declared independence from Mexico... even though the US army had already defeated the Mexican army.
California
This Revolutionary ally turned our army into an actual army; we still use his manual.
Fredrich von Steuban
This president was left to deal with an economy that was severally destroyed and to deal with the fall out of Andrew Jackson's policies against Native Americans.
Martin Van Buren
This was the first legislative body in the US
The Virginia House of Burgesses
This John is the creator of the steel plow.
John Deere
What were the 3 pieces of Henry Clay's economic "America System"?
1. a national bank to store tax money
2. series of roads and canals to facilitate trade
3. high tariffs to protect manufacturing
This was our first Secretary of State.
Thomas Jefferson
What was the primary reason Anti-Federalists did not support the Constitution?
it did not do enough to provide the protection of individual rights
This is the only Native American city north of Mexico.
Cahokia
This Quaker haven quickly became a nightmare to its founder who gave the colony back to England.
Pennsylvania
This was our first naval "general" who shot at random British ships off the coast of England
John Paul Jones
This US President has the shortest term of any other president.
William Henry Harrison
The US has a separation of church and state because this group tied voting to religion.
The Puritans
This John was the first Chief Justice on the Supreme Court
John Jay
How does the Market Revolution affect American society.
fewer things are made at home, people work for wages rather than subsistance
The United States has purchased territory from these nations:
(There are 4...full credit if you can name 3, double points if you can name all 4)
France, Mexico, Spain, Russia