Colonial Foundations
This English settlement, founded in 1607, became the first permanent English colony in North America.
Jamestown
Colonists used this slogan to protest British taxes imposed without colonial representation in Parliament
"No Taxation Without Representation"
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
Marbury v Madison
Which event directly triggered Southern Seccession from the Union?
The election of Abraham Lincoln
Together, these three amendments are often called the "Reconstruction Amendments.
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
This conflict in 1676 exposed tensions between frontier farmers and Virginia's colonial government.
Bacon's Rebellion
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
This compromise attempted to maintain the balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
This white supremacist organization used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.
Ku Klux Klan
This war between Britain and France ended in 1763 and left Britain with significant debt.
French and Indian War
What was a cause of the Boston Massacre
The quartering of British soldiers in Boston
This event demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and helped lead to the Constitutional Convention.
Shay's Rebellion
This 1854 law allowed settlers to vote on whether slavery would be permitted in their territories.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Supreme Court case upheld the idea of "separate but equal
Plessy v Ferguson
This labor system gradually replaced indentured servitude in the Southern Colonies during the late 1600s
Chattel Slavery
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet encouraging colonists to support independence
Common Sense
This document served as the first government of the United States
Articles of Confederation
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This agreement ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
Compromise of 1877
This agreement, signed aboard the Mayflower, established a form of self-government.
Mayflower Compact
Whuch treaty ended the Revolutionary War, and what was it's outcome
The Treaty of Paris, Recognized United States independence
This Supreme Court case strengthened federal power by upholding the constitutionality of the national bank
McCulloch v. Maryland
This law required citizens to assist in the capture of escaped enslaved people and angered many Northerners
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This labor system trapped many freedpeople in cycles of debt and poverty after the Civil War.
Sharecropping