13 Original Colonies
This is the location of the first permanent English colony.
What is Jamestown Virginia?
The final battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The main President of "Manifest Destiny", who served only 1 term.
Who is James K. Polk?
The system used in the U.S. that allows a local government in each state along with a national government in Washington DC, with both sharing power.
What is federalism?
The cause of the Nullification Crisis was over this.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
This describes the colonial region of New England.
What is cold winters, timber, rocky soil, and fishing/shipping as industries?
This ally later sought the U.S.'s help when they tried to overthrow their king.
Who is France?
What year did the Mexican-American War begin and end?
What is 1846 to 1848?
Individual Rights is found in this part of the Constitution.
The first ten amendments to the Constitution or the Bill of Rights?
Slavery, states rights, sectionalism and the results of the election of 1860.
What are the causes of the Civil War?
The reason that the Pilgrims and Puritans left England for Massachusetts.
What is to escape religious persecution and practice religion freely?
Daily Double!!
This precedent-setting person was present at the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress, and later presided over the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Who is George Washington?
The land of these future states were added to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
This decision by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that slaves were property and had no rights.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
Ben Franklin, grain crops, Quakers, and iron mining were found in this colonial region.
What is the mid Atlantic colonies?
What is the rejection of the Olive Branch Petition, Declaration of Independence, and Articles of Confederation?
In 1869, this infrastructure improvement was completed which connected the east and west.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
What is an example of Checks and Balances?
Daily Double!
This court case result was ignored by the President and the Indian removal Act was enforced.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The earliest example of this type of government was founded in the South by this company who need the settlers to appoint delegates to an assembly to help govern the colony in 1619.
What is representative government (Virginia House of Burgesses)
The Boston Tea Party was caused by this Act and it in turn led to this Act.
What is the Tea Act and Intolerable Acts?
Grant's quote below is referring to this conflict:
The wickedness was not in the way our soldiers conducted it, but in the conduct of our government in declaring war. The troops behaved well... and the government acted handsomely about the peace. We had no claim... Texas had no claim beyond the Nueces River, and yet we pushed on to the Rio Grande and crossed it. I am always ashamed of my country when I think of that invasion.”
What is the Mexican American War?
This Supreme Court case established the concept of a check and balance used by the judicial branch. (the concept and the court case)
What is judicial review and Marbury v. Madison?
"Our Union, next to our liberty, most dear! May we always remember that it can only be preserved by distributing equally the benefits and the burdens of the Union.”
The person saying this quote most likely believes in this sectional issue.
What is supporting nullification of tariffs?