Exploration
Reasons for exploration?
God, Gold, Glory
These three colonial regions included New England, Middle, and ____.
What is the Southern Colonies?
list the major battles of the American Revolution in order?
The first (weak) government of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Andrew Jackson claimed to support this group of everyday Americans.
Who are the “common men”?
What country came looking to make money in the Fur Trade?
French
This document, signed aboard a ship in 1620, created self-government for the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Biggest reason for the American Revolution, upset the colonists
“No taxation without representation”
This compromise settled how enslaved people would count toward representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Court case that ruled in favor of the Cherokee, required Georgia to leave the Natives alone.
Worcester v. Georgia
He accidentally discovered the Americas in 1492 while seeking a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This colony, founded by William Penn, was known for religious tolerance and Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This 1770 event, where British soldiers killed 5 colonists, heightened tensions.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This first 10 amendments protect individual rights, list them all
Bill of Rights
This tragic journey resulted in thousands of Cherokee deaths.
What is the Trail of Tears?
What country came to build missions and spread religion, they claimed Texas.
Spain
This region depended on plantations, enslaved labor, and cash crops like tobacco.
What is the Southern Colonies?
Response from Britain to the Boston Tea Party, could not tolerate the colonists disrespect anymore.
Intolerable Acts
Warned of political parties in his farewell address, had to deal with the whiskey rebellion, and set precedents as our first president
Who is George Washington
This crisis involved South Carolina refusing to follow federal tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
What country came for religious freedom, and to economic reasons? (Make Money)
This early representative assembly in Virginia paved the way for American democracy., first representative government, and include a system of checks and balances.
What is the House of Burgesses?
System in which colonist could trade with only ONE country, no others. Upset the colonists because limited their ability to make more money.
What is merCANTilism?
The Great Compromise
Jackson opposed this powerful institution, believing it favored the wealthy.
What is the National Bank (Bank of the United States)?