Colonial America
This 1620 agreement established a framework for self-government in the New England colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This phrase reflected colonial anger at new taxes imposed by Parliament without local representation.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
The first constitution, which gave most power to the states, was called this.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This issue about balancing slave and free states nearly divided the U.S. long before 1861.
What is states’ rights?
This early Virginia assembly became the first representative legislature in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
These Enlightenment thinkers most influenced the revolutionary ideas about government by consent
Who were John Locke and Montesquieu?
The 1787 compromise created a bicameral legislature with representation by population and equality
What is the Great Compromise?
This belief claimed that the U.S. was destined by God to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This state was the first to secede from the Union in 1861.
What is South Carolina?
These colonists settled in Massachusetts, seeking to create moral, religious communities.
Who were the Puritans?
This 1773 protest against British taxes involved dumping tea into Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This addition to the Constitution appeased Anti-Federalists by guaranteeing individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This 1854 law allowed settlers to decide the slavery issue for themselves, leading to violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1865 amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Middle Colonies were known for exporting this major crop
What is wheat?
The 1783 Treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War and established the U.S. boundaries
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The 3/5 Compromise counted enslaved people this way for representation.
What is three-fifths of a person?
This tragic event forced Native Americans westward from their ancestral lands.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This federal agency provided education, food, and aid to newly freed African Americans.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This Southern colony was founded as a buffer between Spanish Florida and the Carolinas.
What is Georgia?
The first battles of the American Revolution took place at these two towns in Massachusetts.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This principle divides power between state and national governments.
What is Federalism?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
During Reconstruction, this group in Congress sought harsh punishment for former Confederates.
Who were the Radical Republicans?