Causes of the American Revolution
This 1763 law limited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
According to the Declaration of Independence, these rights cannot be taken away.
What are natural rights?
The first U.S. government plan that created a weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A network of secret routes used by enslaved people to escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This conflict led Britain to tax the colonies more heavily to pay off war debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
The belief that government gets its power from the people is called…
What is consent of the governed?
This rebellion showed the Articles were too weak to stop internal conflict.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
The Supreme Court case that established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The abolitionist known for escaping slavery and publishing narratives.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Colonists protested British goods by refusing to buy them. This protest was called a…
What is a boycott?
This country provided money, troops, and naval support to the colonists.
What is France?
The compromise that created a two‑house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
The belief that the U.S. was meant to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling said enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This colonial protest involved dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
One geographic advantage the colonists had during the war was…
They were fighting on their home territory.
This principle divides government power into three branches.
What is separation of powers?
The law that led to the forced removal of Native Americans.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A system where farmers farmed land owned by someone else and paid with crops.
What is sharecropping?
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were created mainly to…
Resist British policies and organize colonial protests.
After the Revolutionary War, many Loyalists were…
Forced to flee, had property taken, or were treated harshly.
Federalists wanted a _________ government, while Anti‑Federalists wanted a _________ government.
Strong national / limited national government.
The forced march of Native Americans from the Southeast to the West.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The growing division between the North and South over slavery and economics.
What is sectionalism?