Colonial Times
This British policy let the colonies make their own rules as long as they sent raw materials back to Britain.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Thomas Paine wrote this famous pamphlet to tell colonists it was time to break away from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This law said that a territory needed 60,000 people to become a state and it banned slavery in new lands.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This Supreme Court case gave the courts the power of "Judicial Review."
What is Marbury v. Madison?
hese groups were formed by workers to fight for better pay and safer jobs.
What are Labor Unions?
This was the first representative government in the colonies, located in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Thomas Paine stopped blaming Parliament for the colonies' problems and started blaming this King.
Who is King George III?
This agreement created two houses of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
Andrew Jackson helped expand this right to all white men, even if they didn't own land.
What is the right to vote (Suffrage)?
This surprise attack by Japan on a naval base in Hawaii forced the U.S. to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This agreement was signed by the Pilgrims to make sure everyone followed the rules for the "good of the colony."
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This section of the Declaration of Independence lists 27 specific complaints against the King.
What are the Grievances?
This group supported the Constitution and wanted a strong central government.
Who are the Federalists?
This 1830 law forced the Cherokee and other tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This massive invasion of France was the turning point of WWII in Europe.
What is D-Day?
This colony’s “Fundamental Orders” was one of the first written constitutions in America.
What is Connecticut?
This was the freezing winter camp where soldiers suffered from hunger but received military training.
What is Valley Forge?
The Anti-Federalists refused to sign the Constitution until this was added to protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This battle was the deadliest of the Civil War and the major turning point for the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This president issued Executive Order 9066, which sent Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Because this region had rocky soil, its economy was based on fishing and trading rather than farming.
What are the New England Colonies?
These two foreign leaders (one from Prussia and one from France) helped train and supply Washington’s army.
Who are Baron von Steuben and the Marquis de Lafayette?
Under the Great Compromise, this house of Congress gives every state exactly two representatives.
What is the Senate?
This specific Reconstruction amendment abolished (ended) slavery forever.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Jane Addams founded this "settlement house" in Chicago to help poor people and immigrants.
What is Hull House?