Unit 1
What is Jamestown?
This war started after the British pushed west onto native and French land.
What is the French and Indian War?
This event led government leaders to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This gives the Judicial Branch the power to interpret the Constitution and declare laws or acts of Congress unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
This began in the textile industry in the 1700s.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These two groups of people made up the group of colonists who surrounded British soldiers during the Boston Massacre.
What are workers and sailors?
This is where most bills die in the law-making process.
What is committee?
This treaty gave the U.S. possession of Florida.
What is the Adams-Onis treaty?
By the 1850s, this development linked raw materials, manufacturers, and markets.
What is Railroads?
The names of Columbus's three ships.
What are the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
According to this, settlers were required to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The President's veto power is an example of this Constitutional principle.
What is Checks and Balances?
This describes the God-given right and duty of Americans to extend the nation from Atlantic to Pacific.
What is Total War?
A transfer of goods, ideas, and people between the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This officially ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
These were the two biggest topics debated at the Constitutional Convention.
What are representation and the slave trade?
This was the statement that rejected any European influence in the Americas.
This group of people opposed Lincoln and Johnson's soft, lenient approach to Reconstruction.
Who the Radical Republicans?
The English Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta led colonists to expect this type of government.
What is representative?
This was the main grievance (complaint) that the colonists had against Great Britain.
What is being taxed without consent/representation?
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This was a major effect of the Gold Rush.
What is California's diverse population?
What was the main effect of the grandfather clause?
It allowed some whites to voted, while still preventing African Americans from voting.