Exploration
What is god, gold and glory?
This colonial region, including the colony of Jamestown, had warm weather, rich soil and an economy based on slavery.
What is the southern colonies?
This is the primary reason for the American Revolution. It spurred protests such as the Boston Tea Party.
What is taxation without representation?
Anti-federalists demanded this be added to the Constitution to protect our individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These are the three main countries that explored the New World.
What are Great Britain, Spain and France?
This colonial region made their money as the "breadbasket," growing wheat and grains to feed the other colonies.
This wasn act of civil disobedience by the Sons of Liberty against the King's taxes. The colonists were punished with the Intolerable Acts following this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This group supported the Constitution because they wanted a strong central government.
Who are the federalists?
This part of Hamilton's Financial Plan was opposed by Democratic-Republicans who felt that it was unconstitutional and gave too much power to the wealthy.
What is the National Bank?
This is where Spain settled in the New World.
Where is South America, Mexico and Florida?
This was a document, known as a social contract, was written by the pilgrims to govern their new colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This was the turning point of the Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This document, known for its weak central government, existed before the current U.S. Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This power, created in the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison, allowed the Judicial Branch to determine if the laws follow the Constitution.
What is Judicial Review?
This is how the French made their money in the new world.
What is the fur trade?
This was the first representative government in the colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This is the treaty that ended the revolutionary war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This principle of government says that power is shared between the federal and state government.
What is federalism?
This policy said that Europe must "KEEP OUT" and stop colonizing South America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This is where France settled in the New World.
Where is New Orleans (Louisiana) and Canada?
This was the economic system used by the king to benefit the British. It prevented the colonies from trading with anyone but the British.
What is mercantilism?
This is what it is called when King George III ignored the colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
What is the Great Compromise?
This farmer rebellion, silenced by President Washington, showed the strength of our federal government.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?