Exploration and Colonization
American Revolution
Constitutional Convention and The Young Republic
War of 1812 and Industrialization Era
Manifest Destiny, Civil War and Reconstruction
100
Contract signed by Pilgrims for self-government in Massachusett.
What is Mayflower Compact?
100
The geographical law the colonist resented from the King prevented them from_______.
What is move west past the Appalachian Mountains?
100
Anti-Federalists such as George Mason, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry were against ratifying the Constitution because they feared __________.
What is the federal government had more power than the state government?
100
The impressment of sailors, interference with trade on the sea and Britain and Native Americans getting together against the U.S. started the War of 1812. This document ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
100
Which slave and free states were products of the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War?
What are Texas and California?
200
Why did Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson establish Rhode Island?
What is to practice freedom of religion?
200
The Continental Congress appointed A Commander-in-Chief of the Army in 1775.
Who is George Washington?
200
The court case that gave federal courts the power of judicial review- determine whether a law was constitutional.
What is Marbury vs Madison?
200
Railroads traveling west with merchandise from businesses were in hopes to _____________.
What is bring goods to start new businesses?
200
The resources the Cherokees were trying to protect by suing the state of Georgia.
What is their land and their gold?
300
Because the colonists were separated from King George III by the Atlantic Ocean and felt independent to govern themselves they set up forms of representative government such as:
What is Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Articles of Connecticut and Mayflower Compact?
300
In the Declaration of Independence of 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote to King George III about rights the colonists were being denied as British citizens.
What are unalienable rights?
300
The problem Alexander Hamilton tried to help George Washington solve once he was President.
What are debts from the Revolutionary War?
300
After the War of 1812 Americans had great pride and loyalty toward the Country. This time in history was called the ____ of ______ __________.
What is Era of Good Feelings?
300
The independent republic we acquired in 1845.
What is Texas?
400
Major cities with ports were very accessible for ______.
What is trade to new markets?
400
During the Revolutionary Era this person wrote about the Intolerable Acts in pamphlets and encouraged the colonists to fight for their independence freedom.
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
The resolution for the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan in 1787.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
This massive water route in New York unified sections from the east to the west for settlement and trade.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
France Napoleon Bonaparte Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains
What is Louisiana Purchase?
500
This economic system allowed the owner to have land, keep the profits and very little government involvement.
What is free enterprise system?
500
Marquis de Lafayette came to help Washington fight the British on land. This person came to help fight against the British on the sea.
Who is J_ _ _ P_ _ _ J_ _ _ _ _?
500
The Congress can impeach and remove federal judges, the President can veto a bill and the Supreme Court can declare executive acts unconstitutional. These are examples of ________.
What are Checks and Balances?
500
The inventor and this invention increased the production of agriculture and the demand for slaves in the South.
Who is Eli Whitney and what is the cotton gin?
500
Washington became a state from this section of territory in Manifest Destiny.
What is Oregon Territory/Country?
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