The original settlers of the Carolinas were from this British Colony?
What is Barbados?
100
This was the colonial assembly in Virgina.
What is the House of Burgesses?
100
This was the original constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
This was an act of the the Continental Congress which established the precedent by which territories could join the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
100
Anti-immigration.
What is Nativism?
200
Settlers who, for the most part,were bound to labour for a period of years
What are indentured servants?
200
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet advocating the independence of the American Colonies.
What is Common Sense?
200
This plan notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the Grand Convention.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
This was added to a appropriations bill would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
200
Plymouth colony.
Who are the Pilgrims?
300
This religious group supported the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other settlements.
Who are the Puritans?
300
This was a direct action by colonists in Boston against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
This clause states the all federal laws "shall be the supreme law of the land".
What is the Supremacy Clause?
300
This was an intricate package of five bills defusing a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North .
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
A 1854 bill that contained the provision that the question of slavery should be left to the decision of the territorial settlers themselves.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
This was the belief that reason is the primary source for legitimacy and authority
What is the Enlightenment?
400
The first two military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
400
The Anti-Federalists feared that this clause in the US Constitution would grant the federal government boundless power.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
400
The election of this man as President in 1860 was the "final straw" that caused southern states to succeed from the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
A doctrine under which the status of slavery in the territories was to be determined by the settlers themselves
What is popular sovereignty?
500
This was a religious revitalization movement that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
What is the Great Awakening?
500
This act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on a certain type of legalized paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
500
The central governing authority of a nation should be equal or inferior to, but not having more power than, its sub-national states. Federalist or anti-federalist?
What is an Anti-Federalist?
500
The novel, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a publising sensation that portrayed in great detail the horrors of slavery.