ROAD TO REVOLUTION
This British policy allowed colonies to govern themselves with little interference.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This document declared that the colonies were independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This belief encouraged Americans to settle lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This attack marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This issue was the main cause of growing sectionalism before the Civil War.
What is Slavery?
This war left Britain in debt and led to new colonial taxes.
What is the French and Indian War?
This early government failed because it could not tax or enforce laws effectively and focused more on states power.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This order changed the Civil War into a fight against slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This period attempted to rebuild the South and integrate formerly enslaved people into society after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
These laws increased colonial anger because colonists believed they were being taxed unfairly.
What are Parliamentary Acts? (TEA ACT, STAMP ACT, etc.)
This event convinced many Americans that the national government needed more power.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This compromise temporarily reduced sectional conflict by balancing free and slave states in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review and increased the power of the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This event united colonial leaders to respond to British actions after the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This compromise counted enslaved people when determining representation in Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This act increased sectional tensions by allowing territories to vote on slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
These laws were created in the South to limit the rights of African Americans after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This constitutional principle divides power between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
How did Enlightenment ideas influence the American Revolution?
Colonists used natural rights and consent of the governed to justify independence
This compromise created a Congress with two houses.
What is the Great Compromise?
How did the Dred Scott decision increase sectional conflict before the Civil War?
It ruled enslaved people were not citizens
How did Reconstruction expand rights for African Americans while also facing resistance in the South? (give one expansion and one resistance).
Amendments expanded rights, but Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and violence limited equality
Which idea connects BOTH the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
A. Federalism
B. Popular Sovereignty
C. Isolationism
D. Imperialism
B. Popular Sovereignty