Where is it?
This was farmland added to complete the goal of manifest desting. 54'40 or Fight!
What is Oregon Territory?
Urbanization and Industrialization
What is New England? (or the North)
Lumber
This principle ensures that no single branch of government becomes too powerful by dividing government responsibilities.
What is Separation of Powers?
This Virginian warned the nation to steer clear of "entangling alliances" and political factions in a message that wasn’t delivered as a speech.
Who is George Washington?
Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States for $15 Million with this action.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Adams-Onis Treaty added this territory to the United States.
What is Florida?
Cotton
What is Southern Colonies/the south
In this system, power is divided between the national government and state governments, allowing each to have specific responsibilities.
What is Federalism?
This leader authorized a deal that doubled the size of the U.S.—even though, as a strict constructionist, he questioned whether the Constitution gave him the power to do so.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This formed the natural western border of the original 13 colonies.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
What is Maryland?
Tobacco
Southern Colonies
This principle allows citizens to participate in government by voting and having a say in how they are governed.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This powerful speaker and publisher escaped slavery and later advised Lincoln to allow African Americans to enlist in the Union Army.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
The process by which Texas was added to the United States.
What is Annexation?
Thomas Jefferson wanted to control this port city.
What is New Orleans?
Ranching
Texas
The idea that the government's power comes from the consent of the people, and that government exists to protect individual rights.
What is Limited Government?
This Enlightenment thinker’s theory that government exists to protect life, liberty, and property was echoed nearly word-for-word in a 1776 American document.
Who is John Locke?
This was the end of the transcontinental railroad. Many Chinese Immigrants settled there as a result, in addition to the many prospectors hoping to strike gold in 1849.
What is California?
Minimum of 60,000 free inhabitants, elect an assembly, draft a constitution.
Northwest Territory/Ordinance
Gold Mining
What is California?
This principle of the Constitution ensures that no single branch becomes too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the powers of the others.
What is checks and balances?
William Penn believed in religious freedom, fair treatment of Native Americans, and created a “holy experiment” based on his Quaker faith, where representative government and tolerance thrived in this colony.
What is Pennsylvania?