Documents and Policies
This 1620 agreement was made by Pilgrims to govern their own colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This state was founded by William Penn as a refuge for Quakers when King Charles' II repaid a debt.
What is Pennsylvania?
This was the war for which the Boston Tea Party, an early American rebellion against British taxation, was a catalyst.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
This was one of the main ways early settlers gathered to make local decisions.
What is a town hall meeting?
This was the party, led by Alexander Hamilton, that supported a strong central government.
What is the Federalist party?
Listed in this section of the Constitution are the goals of establishing a more perfect union, establishing justice, ensuring domestic peace and order, providing protection through defense against external threats, promoting the well-being and prosperity of all people, and securing the blessings of liberty.
What is the Preamble?
During the Revolutionary
War, this is the place where George Washington's army made their winter encampment.
What is Valley Forge?
This is the name of the event that occurred in 1770, during which British soldiers killed five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The Louisiana Purchase secured this much more land based on the size of America.
What is double the size of America?
This compromise resulted in a two-house Congress composed of a Senate and House of Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This served as the first document establishing a U.S. government with a weak central authority.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This is the most popular theory of how humans arrived in present-day America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This group of Americans supported the British.
Who are the Loyalists?
Thomas Jefferson commissioned these two men to explore the lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
The Supreme Court can check the legislative's branch power by doing this to a law.
What is declaring a law unconstitutional?
This is the name given to the first ten amendments to the Constitution protecting individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Europeans wanted to find this so as to have a direct trade route to Asia.
During the War of 1812, this group sided with the British against the Americans.
Who are Native Americans?
The Constitution was drafted at this convention in Philadelphia.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
What is the spoils system?
This was a warning to Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The state in which the population grew significantly due to the Gold Rush.
What is California?
During the Revolutionary War, British ships made this branch of their military stronger than America's.
What is the navy?
This was the meeting in 1787 during which the U.S. Constitution was written.
What is the Continental Convention?
This act established the federal court system.