US history 1
Colonists had to provide housing to British troops
What is the Quartering Act?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
Event where 5 colonists were killed and fueled the anger against the British
What is the Boston Massacre?
Belief Americans should own land from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean as a God given right
What is Manifest Destiny?\
What is the Cotton Gin?
Imposed taxes on any paper used
What is the Stamp Act
What are the three branches of government?
The judicial branch, the legislative branch and the executive branch
The territory bought from the French which basically doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A large state that was once an independent nation
What is Texas?
Represents the people. The number of representatives from each state are based on population
What is the House of Representatives?
The group that wanted independence in Colonial America
Who are the Patriots?
The lead author of the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
Which president signed the Indian Removal Act, which moved Native Americans into unsettled land in the West in exchange for their land within state borders?
Andrew Jackson
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The number of electoral votes needed to win a presidential election
Represents the states. Each state has two.
What is the Senate?
This Document that incited the American Revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor as a means of protest
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A set of rules for how government works
What is the Constitution?
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Enslaved people were counted as 3/5 of a person to determine a state's number of representatives in Congress.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This group that wanted to remain with Great Britain
Who are the Loyalists
Wrote a pamphlet, Common Sense, that scoffed at the idea that Americans owed any loyalty to Britain
Who is Thomas Paine
The first written plan of government for the United States
What are the Articles of Confederation
A way in which certain groups are prevented from voting
What is a poll tax?
What is a literacy test?
What is intimidation?
First state to give women the right to vote
What is Wyoming?