Government
This form of government allows citizens to vote directly on laws and decisions.
What is Direct Democracy?
“Taxation without representation” helped cause this war.
What is the American Revolution?
This belief said it was America’s destiny to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention made removing seeds from cotton much faster.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A person who can vote, criticize the government, and help make laws is called this.
What is a Citizen?
Thomas Jefferson mainly wrote this document in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This land purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This system transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
John Brown attacked this location in 1859 hoping to start a slave rebellion.
What is Harpers Ferry?
This Enlightenment idea says people give up some freedoms in exchange for protection and services from the government.
What is the Social Contract?
This document listed complaints against King George III.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These explorers were sent by Jefferson to study western lands after the Louisiana Purchase.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Many immigrants settled in these Northern locations during the Industrial Revolution.
What are cities/factory cities?
These states allowed slavery but stayed loyal to the Union during the Civil War.
What are Border States?
In the French Three Estates System, this estate paid most of the taxes and provided the labor.
What is the 3rd Estate?
The colonists protested British taxes with this famous tea-related event in Boston.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This event encouraged thousands of Americans to move to California hoping to become rich.
What is the Gold Rush?
The North had more of these, helping them produce supplies during the Civil War.
What are factories/manufacturing plants?
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This type of government gives complete power to a king or queen.
What is an Absolute Monarchy?
This 1765 law required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards, leading to widespread protests and the formation of groups like the Sons of Liberty.
What is the Stamp Act?
This policy forced Native Americans off their land so white settlers could move west.
What is The Indian Removal Act?
This movement worked to end slavery in the United States.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 used this principle to let settlers decide the issue of slavery in new territories, leading to violent conflict known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is Popular Sovereignty?