Early US History/Enlightenment
This is the definition of the term "Native American."
Any of a group of indigenous peoples that populated the North American continent prior to European settlement.
The different regions of British colonies are called the _____ _____________, Middle, and Southern colonies.
What is New England?
Article 1 of the US Constitution created this branch of the US Government.
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress)?
This is the name of the large area of land the US purchased from France under President Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This was the main cause of the tension leading up to the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This is the name of the Native American tribe that lived in present-day New York and who traded frequently with early colonists.
Who is the Iroquois?
This colonial region is considered to have the most diversity.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This is a list of the most essential rights guaranteed to every American citizen, enshrined as the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This was the main purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
What was to explore and map the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, make contact with Native American tribes in the region, and establish a claim to the Northwest territories?
This official declaration, made by Abraham Lincoln, banned slavery in all of the Southern states in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Enlightenment thinker came up with the idea for different branches of government.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This colonial region relied the most on slave labor for their economy.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This was the branch of the US Government created by Article 2 of the Constitution.
What is the Executive Branch (President)?
This was the name given to the forceful relocation of Native American tribes from the southwest United States to reservations in Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This was the name of the period following the end of the Civil War, during which the United States sought to re-unify the country and rights for former slaves.
What is Reconstruction?
These are the three natural rights established by John Locke.
What are life, liberty, and property?
The colonists used this as a rallying cry after being asked to pay new taxes, claiming it was against their rights as British citizens to pay taxes without representation in Parliament
What is "No Taxation without Representation?"
This is the concept that governmental power should be divided between a large central government and smaller, state governments.
What is federalism?
At the conclusion of this war, the United States acquired some or all the present-day states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah.
What is the Mexican-American War?
These three Amendments are considered the "Reconstruction Amendments."
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This Enlightenment thinker championed the rights of freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Who is Voltaire?
This event was the first time that American colonists had reason to be angry with the British government, due to the subsequent increase in taxes and the Proclamation banning colonists from living west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was the first attempt at a governing document written by the Founding Fathers, which failed because of a weak central government, an inability to collect taxes, and the lack of a standing army.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
In this Supreme Court case, the Court decided that people of African descent could not be American citizens, and that Congress had no power to ban slavery in the federal territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that segragation did not go against the Constitution so long as the facilities adhered to this standard.
What is "separate but equal?"