Colonial America
Colony that wanted to be "like a city upon a hill"
Massachusetts Bay
Influential Revolutionary pamphlet that advocated for independence from Britain
Common Sense
System provided for in the Constitution to prevent one branch from having more power than the other two
Checks & Balances
Leader of the Federalist Party
Alexander Hamilton
The American System proposed using this to pay for internal improvements
Protective Tariff
Basis of political power in colonial America
Land
Group formed to protest the Stamp Act
Sons of Liberty
Major accomplishment of the Anti-Federalists
Bill of Rights
Compromise that gave more power to the Southern states
3/5ths Compromise
THREE reform movements sparked by the Second Great Awakening
Abolition, Temperance, Women's Suffrage
Most diverse colonial region
Middle colonies
Reason Parliament ended the policy of salutory neglect
Debt from the French & Indian War
Branch of the federal government that has the most power
Legislative Branch
Reserved powers not specifically written in the Constitution to the states
10th Amendment
The independence of many Latin American colonies led to this US policy
Monroe Doctrine
Economic concept that prompted Parliament to enact the Navigation Acts
Mercantilism
Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas contributed to the Revolution
John Locke
Major accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation
Land Ordinance (1785) or Northwest Ordinance
An "ideal" citizen to the Democratic Republicans
A Farmer
Compromise to secure a balance of slave and non-slave states in the Senate
Missouri Compromise
significant colonial concept established in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights
Representative government
The most successful colonial response to acts of Parliament from 1764-1775
Nonimportation
TWO main weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Inability to collect taxes and regulate trade
Section of the Constitution used by Hamilton to secure the formation of the Bank of the United States
Necessary and Proper Clause or "Elastic Clause"
One way in which the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions (1798) and the South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832) are similar
Authority of the states to nullify federal laws