Unit 1: Emergence of US Colonies/Colonies Come of Age
Unit 2: Revolutionary War
Unit 3: US Constitution
Unit 4: US Expansion Pre Civil War (Ch. 6-9)
Unit 5: US Civil War
100
Economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
100
First direct taxation of goods from Parliament that forced colonists to purchase stamps for every legal document, license, newspapers, and dice.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
100
Idea that the people give the government the consent to rule.
What is federalism?
100
Economic system where private businesses and individuals control the means of production with little government intervention.
What is capitalism?
100
Document that stated slavery/involuntary servitude was not allowed in any territory the US gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso 1846?
200
Business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose.
What is a joint-stock company?
200
Skirmish between colonists and British soldiers that resulted in Crispus Attucks and four others’ death.
What is the Boston Massacre of 1770?
200
Agreement that declared Southern states could count ⅗ of their slave population towards their total state population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
200
Idea that national interest are greater than state, personal, or other countries’ interests.
What is nationalism?
200
Political idea during the Civil War that allowed a state’s citizens to vote whether their state would be free or slave.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
Reason why Pilgrims wanted to come to America.
What is escape religious persecution, separate from Anglican Church, and better economic opportunities?
300
Major advantage for US during Revolutionary War.
What is home-field advantage, conviction, and alliance with France?
300
The original goal for the Constitutional Convention after Shays’ Rebellion.
What is to amend the Articles of Confederation?
300
Major issue that created two-party system in US.
What is power and size of national government?
300
According to Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, Congress could not forbid slavery because…
What is slaves were property protected by the Constitution?
400
Effect of salutary neglect on English colonies.
What is colonies learned to self-govern?
400
Theme Thomas Jefferson referenced when he wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
What is Natural Rights?
400
Power given to the national government.
What is maintain military, declare war, set money standards, establish postal system, and protect copyrights and patents?
400
Document that warned all outsiders to not interfere with Western Hemisphere.
What is Monroe Doctrine 1823?
400
Significance of Battle of Antietam.
What is McClellan fired, Union victory needed to announce E.P., and bloodiest single-day battle in American history?
500
Rules of England's Navigation Acts.
What are trade only through English ports and ships, colonies export certain products to England, and all goods had to pass through England?
500
One accomplishment of the Treaty of Paris 1783.
What is US independence and US controlled all land East of MI River?
500
How judicial branch checks executive branch.
What is deem president's actions unconstitutional?
500
Reasons why Americans expanded westward.
What are escape religious persecution, find new markets for commerce, and spread virtues of democracy?
500
Post Civil War Amendment that stated, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” are citizens."
What is Fourteenth Amendment?
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