Colonial Roots
He argued that all people have specific natural rights with which they are born.
Who is "John Locke"?
Colonists boycotted and destroyed entire shipments of tea in response to this British action.
What is the "Tea Act"?
This was the first constitution that governed the United States.
What were the "Articles of Confederation"?
The United States bought this territory from France, and it doubled the size of the nation.
What is the "Louisiana Purchase"?
As part of this war plan, President Lincoln initiated a naval blockade on Southern waterways to block the South’s ability to obtain war supplies by trading cotton .
What is the "Anaconda Plan"?
In 1620, this was the first written framework for self-government in what is now the United States.
What is the "Mayflower Compact"?
Patriot victory in this battle was considered a turning point in the Revolution because it brought France into the war as one of the American allies.
What is the "Battle of Saratoga"?
This uprising in 1786 persuaded many leaders to call for a stronger federal government.
What is "Shays' Rebellion"?
The expansion of suffrage to non-property owning white men helped elect this president.
Who is "Andrew Jackson"?
This turning point in the Civil War was the last battle in which the Confederate army initiated an attack on the Union army.
What is the "Battle of Gettysburg"?
In the early colonies, these poor colonizers gave up their freedom for three to seven years in exchange for passage to America.
Who are "Indentured servants"?
In Common Sense, this author argued that Britain and the king were too far away to understand the best way to govern the colonies.
Who was "Thomas Paine"?
For his role in shaping the new framework of government, this man was known as “the Father of the Constitution”.
Who is "James Madison"
This process of an outside territory applying for statehood is how Texas became a state.
Before the war ended, the Union government set up this federal agency to help formerly enslaved people and poor White people living in the South.
What is the "Freedmen’s Bureau"?
The precedent set by the Zenger trial
What is "Freedom of the Press"?
This list of the colonists' grievances against the British king expounded a new vision of government, based on Enlightenment concepts of natural rights and consent of the governed.
What s the "Declaration of Independence"?
These are the 3 branches of government.
What are the "Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches"
U.S. victory in the Mexican-American War led to the acquisition of this territory, which includes California.
What is the "Mexican Cession"?
For firing the Secretary of War, this president became the first in history to be impeached.
Who is "Andrew Johnson"?
Owners who received large land grants from the King of England.
Who were "Proprietors"?
General Cornwallis surrendered after this battle, ending the war.
What is the "Battle of Yorktown"?
The Constitution is called a "living document" because it can change with the times through this process.
What is the "Amendment process"?
This Supreme Court decision rendered the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 unconstitutional.
What is "Dred Scott"?
These forms of farming drove freed people into a life of debt.