Road to Revolution
This Boston Event came after 3 years after the Boston Massacre
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Our nation's First President
George Washington
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This compromise kept the balance of free/slave states and admitted Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What was 1860?
Law passed that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper
What is the Stamp Act?
First 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
God given right for US to expand west and claim land
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Lincoln said his main goal in the Civil War was to do this.
What is restore/save the Union?
Document written by Thomas Jefferson when American colonists split from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
First two political parties in early government
What are Anti-Federalists and Federalists?
This President signed the Indian Removal Act into law in 1830
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This compromise admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Lincoln wrote this speech after a major 1863 battle to honor fallen soldiers.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This person wrote the pamphlet Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
This concept allows each branch to stop the others from abusing power.
What are checks and balances?
This event forced the Native Americans to march hundreds of miles to new territory
What is the Trail of Tears?
This Supreme Court case ruled enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Lincoln issued this document in 1863 to weaken the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Loose rules and laws enforced on colonies in exchange for loyalty to Britain
What is salutary neglect?
The two houses that make up Congress
What is The Senate and the House of Representatives?
This US war gave use lands in the Southwest
What is the Mexican-American War?
This 1852 novel increased Northern opposition to slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln promised a “new birth of” this.
What is freedom?