Unit 1
Also known as the "Breadbasket" or "Bread Colonies," they were known for the production of wheat and grains, but also had some manufacturing mixed in.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This first attempt at a written plan for Government was abandoned due to the fact that it gave too much power to the States and not enough to the Federal Government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Presidential action led to the acquisition of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This action by several southern states began after the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
What was secession?
This amendment ended a practice known as involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This document was sent to King George III and contained a list of grievances against England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This first addition to the Constitution was required by the Antifederalists before they would agree to ratify.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This man's treatment of Native Americans led to the series of events known as the Trail of Tears.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This wing of a popular political party controlled Congress during Reconstruction and was interested in punishing the South for their actions during the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This amendment guarantees among other things, Freedom of the Press and the Right to Petition your Government.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This early American conflict led to major debt for England and was an indirect cause of the Revolutionary War.
What is the French and Indian War?
The Great Compromise settled this debate between Virginia and New Jersey.
What is the decision about how States would be represented in Congress?
This idea was used as justification for the westward expansion of the United States.
What was Manifest Destiny?
These were attempts by Southern States to prevent African-Americans from voting.
What were Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, and the Grandfather Clause?
This amendment guarantees the right for all male citizens to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The end of this British policy was not well received by the American colonists and led to conflict with the Mother Country.
What is Salutary Neglect?
These are two of Washington's suggestions mentioned in his farewell address.
What are avoid sectionalism, avoid political parties, and avoid foreign affairs?
William Lloyd Garrison published the Liberator; a newspaper which promoted this popular idea in the North.
What was abolition?
This economic activity kept many African-Americans in slavery-like conditions long after the Civil War ended.
What was Tenant Farming/Sharecropping?
This amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures by law enforcement officers.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This order sent by King George III banned all colonial travel west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This Constitutional feature allowed it to be interpreted loosely, as long as the interpretation was necessary and proper.
What is the elastic clause?
This agreement kept the balance between free and slave states at 11 & 11.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This Government agency was created to help former slaves who had been given their freedom but not given any assistance afterward.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This "catch-all" amendment says any power not specifically delegated to the Federal Government, is a State power.
What is the 10th Amendment?