Colonial America
Laws/Government
Terms
1800s to 1850s
Misc.
100

The various acts and taxes levied(passed) against the colonist all served to.

Anger or upset the colonists 

100

Which document gives the federal government the power to tax the states, create courts, and coin money?

The Constitution

100

Pride in one's country

Nationalism 

100

Change in the way goods were produced in the early 1800s leading to triggered a need to move westward.

Market Revolution

100

The first battle(s) of the Revolution;

Battles of Lexington and Concord

200

September 5, 1774 meeting of all the representatives from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia to organize colonial resistance to the English Parliament's Coercive Acts.

Continental Congress

200

Two house law making body.

Bicameral Legislature

200
What does the Executive Branch do?

Enforce laws

200

The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents during the 1800s was Providence.

Manifest Destiny

200

The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was;

to officially proclaim America’s separation from England

300

Imposed duties(taxes) on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.

Townshend Acts

300

John wants to go to Temple, but his boss Timothy said to go to a Catholic Church, this is a violation of the;

1st Amendment

300

Streets, roads, highways, canals, and the like are parts of;

Infrastructure 

300

The Era of Good Feelings could not ward off the nation’s grown sectional problems centered around differing opinions in the North and South over _________________________.

Slavery

300

Group of peoples who set out to California in search of gold.

California 49ers

400

The main problem of the Articles of Confederation was

it gave the states too much power and the national government too little.

400

The legislative branch is made up of;

The House of Representatives and Senate

400

Tax on imported goods used In order to stop the other countries from flooding American markets with their goods and protect American industries Hamilton proposed ______________________________. Or tax on imported goods

Tariff

400

Declaration that declared in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to European colonization;

Monroe Doctrine

400

Perfected the telegraph in 1832;

Samuel F.B Morse

500

The colonists feared a strong central government so created a new one where under the Constitution, the authority of the government is taken from

The will of the people

500

Making sure that no federal branch has more power than the others is an example of:

Separation of Powers

500

Organized group of people with at least roughly similar political aims and opinions, that seeks to influence politics by voting for the same candidates.

Political Party

500

The Mexican-American War started because of;

  1. Border disputes about Texas’ southwestern border.

  2. The annexation of Texas.

  3. The United States’ desire to realize Manifest Destiny.

500

Which of the following was NOT one of Democratic Republican and Thomas Jefferson’s main political views?

Regular people like farmers, artisans, and the like should run the country.

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