Declaration of Independence
An introductory fact of a formal document stating the reasons for it and its purpose
What is the Preamble?
King of England during the American Revolution
Who is King George III?
The First 10 Amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
Purchased from France for $15 million dollars
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Government divided into 3 parts and favored by the larger states
What is the Virginia Plan?
cut off trade with other countries
forced us to house troops
forced taxes and laws on us without our input.
What are grievances?
Colonist dressed as Native Americans and dumped tea in the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Abolished Slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Ruler of France during the Louisiana Purchase
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
1783 peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established Britain's formal recognition of the U.S.
What is The Treaty of Paris?
All goods being shipped must go to England first
What are the Navigation Acts?
Refers to the first shot fired between British Troops at Lexington and sparked the Revolutionary Way
What is The Shot Heard Round the WOrld?
Assures the right not to be deprived of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness without due process of the law
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Two men who explored the Louisiana Purchase
What are Lewis and Clark?
Two house legislature, equal representation in Senate, population determined the number of Representatives
What is The Great Compromise
All men are created equal.
Government gets power from consent of governed.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are Natural Rights?
1.Closed port of Boston until cost of tea was reimbursed.
2.Allowed Boston to hold one town meeting per year.
3.Permitted any British official accused of a crime to be sent to England for his trial.
4.Required Massachusetts to house troops in empty houses, barns, or buildings at the colony’s expense.
What are The Intolerable Acts?
Three-fifths of all enslaved people would be counted in population totals
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Americans believed it was their God given right and duty to settle the entire continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
Federal Government forced Native Americans to move to reservations
What is the Trail of Tears?
Full power to levy war, conclude peace,contract alliances, and establish commerce
What are Free and Independent States?
The first bloodshed of the American Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Commons House opened fire killing five Americans
What is the Boston Massacre?
Two house legislature; equal representation in Senate; representation in House of Representatives based on population
What is The Great Compromise?
Purchase of northern Mexican lands by the US for the transcontinental railroad
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Executive, Judicial, and Legislative
What are the three branches of the government?