Growing Pains (Expansion & Geography)
These two maps show the U.S. in 1800 and 1803. The change was caused by this massive land deal with France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The principle illustrated in this question when the government is split into Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches
What is Separation of Powers?
This group of Republicans enacted legislation during the Reconstruction era to rebuild the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
The primary factor that caused the South's enslaved population to reach over 2.4 million by 1840
What is the Cotton Economy?
1803!
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
An immigrant in the 1700s looking to start a tobacco farm would most likely settle in this colony
What is Virginia?
This idea includes the right to a "Speedy and public trial," an "Impartial jury," and "Legal counsel"
What is Due Process?
This amendment, ratified in 1868, led to the creation of "juries of whites and blacks"
What is the 14th Amendment?
How the colonies reacted to the enforcement of the Intolerable Acts
What is the First Continental Congress?
Revivals
What is the First Amendment?
This 1854 Act increased regional tension because it allowed slavery to expand into the territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This historic document from 1689 had the greatest influence on the first ten amendments
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This man's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 "advanced the cause of disunion" because abolitionists used violence to end slavery.
Who is John Brown?
Eli Whitney’s factory system was based on these, allowing unskilled workers to make goods quickly
What are Interchangeable Parts?
Nullify
What is States' Rights?
This canal opened new trade networks in the Northeast and allowed more settlement in the Midwest.
What is the Erie Canal?
This compromise was agreed upon to settle debates over counting the enslaved population for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant both served as generals for this side during the Civil War.
What is the Union (or North)
nterchangeable parts led to this type of production, making goods in large quantities
What is Mass Production?
3 out of 5
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
In his Farewell Address, Washington gave this advice to avoid being drawn into European wars.
What is Staying Neutral
Evangelists leading religious meetings in New England was a historical action protected by this amendment
What is the First Amendment?
Headlines about "Nullification" and "South Carolina" all have this specific issue in common.
What are States' Rights?
This compromise (not explicitly Q1-18 but related to the era) aimed to keep the balance between free and slave states.
This compromise (not explicitly Q1-18 but related to the era) aimed to keep the balance between free and slave states.
Impartial Jury
What is Due Process?