Types of Power
A group of people protest a law they find unfair. They convince lawmakers to change it.
What is Political Power?
This is the country ruled by King George III that the U.S. declared independence from in 1776.
What is Britain/England?
This term describes the original people living in North America whose land was taken as American settlers moved west.
Who are Indigenous Peoples?
In 1859, this fierce anti-slavery leader tried to start an armed raid at Harpers Ferry to free enslaved people.
Who is John Brown?
This word means favoring one person, group, or idea over another, which makes it hard to treat things fairly or neutrally.
What is Bias?
A social media influencer promotes a product so that their followers buy it.
What is Social Power?
This 1770 event in Massachusetts began with colonists throwing snowballs at British soldiers and ended with five colonists being shot and killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought a huge piece of land from France, doubling the size of the United States because the French needed quick money.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the term for a person, like Frederick Douglass or Nat Turner, who fought to completely end slavery in the United States.
What is an Abolitionist?
This term describes a situation where a single company controls most or all of an industry, removing competition.
What is Monopoly?
This type of power is shown when a company buys out its main competitor, reducing competition and allowing them to raise their prices.
What is Economic Power?
Before declaring independence, America was made up of 13 of these, where people lived under the laws and rule of the British King.
What are colonies?
Starting in Missouri, thousands of pioneers braved a dangerous 2,000-mile journey in covered wagons across rivers and mountains to settle in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Harriet Tubman was a famous leader on this secret network of routes and safe houses used to help enslaved people escape to freedom in the North.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This term describes a region controlled by a country that is not yet granted the full rights of an official state.
What is a Territory?
A country sends its military to take over a neighboring island so it can build a new navy base and expand its borders.
What is Territorial Power?
Passed by the British King in 1765, this law forced American colonists to pay a tax on paper goods like newspapers, playing cards, and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
President Thomas Jefferson hired these two famous explorers to lead an expedition across the newly bought western land all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, this famous anti-slavery novel exposed the horrors of slavery and convinced millions of Northerners to join the fight against it.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
In economic terms, this is the value of the next best option you give up whenever you make a choice.
What is Opportunity Cost?
The principal creates a new dress code policy for the school, but the elected student council meets with the school board to officially overturn it.
What is Political Power?
Passed in 1764 to help pay off war debt, this British law taxed imported molasses and sweet goods while strictly punishing colonial shopkeepers and sellers who tried to smuggle them.
What is the Sugar Act?
A belief in the 1800s in the U.S. that God wanted Americans to grow all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Arguments over whether slavery should be legal led to violent fights in these two midwestern territories in the 1850s.
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
This term describes placing the needs and loyalty of your own region above the interests of the entire nation.
What is Sectionalism?