Colonial America
What is James town?
The war between Britain and France that increased Britain's colonial debt...
What is the French and Indian War?
This compromise created a two-house legislature based on population and equal representation...
What is the Great Compromise?
This belief justified U.S. territorial expansion but often ignored the sovereignty and rights of Native Americans and neighboring nations.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Before Europeans arrived, Native Americans lived in different regions and used the land in ways that fit their environment...
What is adapting to the environment?
The colony founded by the Pilgrims in 1620...
What is Plymouth?
This 1765 tax placed on printed materials angered colonists...
What is the Stamp Act?
This principle divides power among three branches of government...
What is Separation of Powers?
This 1823 doctrine warned European powers against interfering in the Americas, but its enforcement relied on U.S. power, which was limited at the time.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This deadly factor killed many Native Americans after Europeans arrived, even before large battles...
What are diseases (like small pox)?
This economic system said colonies existed to benefit the mother country...
What is mercantilism?
The phrase colonists used to protest British taxation...
What is "No taxation without representation"?
These essays were written to support ratification of the Constitution...
What are the Federalist Papers?
This 1862 law aimed to promote settlement in the West, but its impact was uneven, often favoring white settlers and dispossessing Native Americans.
What is the Homestead Act?
Native American belief about land that conflicted with European ideas
Native American belief about land that conflicted with European ideas
This document created a plan for self-government in 1620...
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The 1770 event where British soldiers killed colonial protectors...
What is the Boston Massacre?
This clause allows Congress to pass laws not explicitly listed in the Constitution...
What is the Elastic (Necessary and Proper) Clause?
One effect of westward expansion on Native Americans
What is loss of land / culture / population?
– Religious settlements used to convert Native Americans
What are missions?
The colonial regions known as the "breadbasket colonies"...
What are the Middle Colonies?
The meeting where colonial leaders organized resistance to Britain...
What is the First Continental Congress?
This compromise counted enslave people as a part of the state's population for representation...
What is the Three-Fifths Act?
Type of house built from soil on the Great Plains
What is a sod house?
European legal concept that denied Native sovereignty
European legal concept that denied Native sovereignty