Laws and Legislation
It led to the relocation of thousand of Native Americans and the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
It doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Columbus arrives in the Caribbean.
What is 1492?
Philosopher who believed in human reason and natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
A rebellion led by farmers in response to the seizure of their lands, which was put down by the troops of Massachusetts.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
It ruled that African Americans, free or enslaved, were not citizens and that Congress did not have the power to ban slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The three branches of government.
What is Legislative, Judicial, and Executive?
1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Founding Father, First Secretary of the Treasury, and namesake for a popular musical.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
A body of government in partnership with England that helped govern the Virginia colony.
What is the House of Burgesses?
It allowed the issue of slavery to be handled through popular sovereignty and led to violence in the territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It put a tax on most printed products in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
Treaty of Paris and the end of the Revolutionary War.
What is 1783?
Author of the Virginia Plan, co-author of the Federalist Papers, and the Fourth President of the United States.
The Supreme Court case that established the power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
It admitted California as a free state and allowed the rest of the Mexican-American War territory to vote on slavery.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The rallying cry of colonists about taxes and government.
What is "No taxation without representation?"
The end of the Civil War, Lincoln's assassination, the 13th Amendment, and the start of Reconstruction.
What is 1865?
Famous Confederate Commander who rejected Lincoln's offer to the Union army. He lead the South to multiple victories against the North.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
A declaration in which the United States asserted that the monarchies of Europe had no business meddling with American republics, including those in Latin America.
What is The Monroe Doctrine?
It was an attempted ban on slavery in the Mexican territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The two houses of Congress.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
1787
What is the Constitutional Convention/Constitution?
The First and only President of the Confederate States.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A system that divided power between the federal and state governments.
What is Federalism?