Colonial America
This economic system used colonies to provide raw materials and build wealth for the 'mother country.'
What is Mercantilism?
The first shots of the Revolution, known as the 'shot heard round the world,' were fired here.
What are Lexington & Concord?
This group demanded a Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution to protect individual liberties.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This 1803 land deal completed by Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Invented by Eli Whitney, this machine made cleaning a specific crop faster, drastically increasing the demand for slave labor.
What is the cotton gin?
This amendment to the Constitution officially abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Settled mostly by Puritans and Pilgrims, this region featured a cold climate and an economy based on fishing and shipbuilding.
What is New England?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This principle of government divides power between the national government and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This was the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand its territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These were reformers like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and William Lloyd Garrison who fought to end slavery.
Who are Abolitionists?
This document issued by Abraham Lincoln shifted the goal of the Civil War to freeing enslaved people.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Distance from England led to the creation of these systems, with examples including the Mayflower Compact and the Virginia House of Burgesses.
What is representative (or self) government?
This policy angered colonists by forbidding them from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
This argument created a two-house Congress to balance power between large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
Gained in 1848 after the U.S.-Mexican War, this large territory included present-day California and Nevada.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This term describes the growing division between the industrial North and the agricultural South.
What is Sectionalism?
These laws were passed by Southern states during Reconstruction to limit the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
Known as the 'breadbasket,' this region had rich soil and diverse populations, including Quakers and Catholics.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This battle was the turning point of the war because it convinced France to ally with the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
In his Farewell Address, he warned the nation against political parties and foreign alliances.
Who is George Washington?
This man-made waterway connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, speeding up transportation.
What is the Erie Canal?
This law angered the North and strengthened the abolitionist movement by forcing Northerners to help capture runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The very first shots of the American Civil War were fired at this location.
What is Fort Sumter?
European nations initially explored the New World for these three primary motivations, often summarized as the 'Three Gs.'
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
Colonists used this famous slogan to protest acts like the Stamp Act and Intolerable Acts passed by Britain to pay for war debts.
What is 'taxation without representation'?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established judicial review, the power the declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
During the Nullification Crisis, South Carolina tried to cancel a federal tariff. This President threatened military force to preserve the Union.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This innovation in transportation made river travel much faster and heavily impacted the economy of the 1800s.
What is the steamboat?
After being freed, many formerly enslaved people were trapped in poverty in the South through this agricultural labor system.
What is sharecropping?