Colonization
These acts were known by the colonists as the Intolerable Acts
What is the coercive acts
This battle influenced the French to sign the Franco-American alliance providing naval aid to the colonist.
Saratoga
What event made the people realize our central government during the Articles of Confederation was to weak and needed to be stronger
Shay's Rebellion
What treaty gave the U.S. the New Mexico Territory?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo
These two battles are concidered the Turning point of the war. and both ended within a day of each other
What are Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
Pilgrims signed this document while they sailed to the New World. It was an early form of representative government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The final battle in the American Revolution was
Yorktown
what was the result of combining the New Jersey plan and the Virginia plan which created a the bicameral legislation.
The Great Compromise
What is the name of the slave that tried to earn his freedom by taking his case to the Supreme Court
Dred Scott
Union General that led "The March to the Sea" and establish the idea of "Total War."
Who is Sherman
This imaginary boundary angered the Colonist after the French and Indian war because it gave them the restrictions on growth
what is the Proclamation line of 1763
What is the treaty that ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
The first ten amendments to the U.S Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
What is the phrase coined to describe the mini civil war caused by the Kansas Nebraska act and the policy of Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
This is what The Union named their 4 part strategy of blocking all southern ports. capturing the capital, divide the south at the Mississippi and squeezing the south.
What is the Anaconda Plan
People who agreed to work under contract for 4 to 7 years in return for trip payment to the New World. When contract ended, workers gained freedom to move.
What are Indentured Servants
Based on the Declaration of Independence what are all human natural rights
Life
Liberty
Pursuit of Happiness
Which Supreme court case established the precedent of Judicial Review?
Marbury V. Madison
The Missouri Compromise allowed which state to join the union as a free state and which state to be a slave state
Maine free Missouri slave
Out of the 3.6 million slaves in the south, the Emancipation Proclamation freed this many.
What is Zero.
Nickname for the type of farming for profit that included tobacco, rice, indigo. Generally associated with large slave plantations in the Southern Colonies.
What is Cash Crop Farming?
The Prussian general that taught military tactics during cold hard winter of 1777-1778 is
Baron von Steuben
The three main branches of government are?
Legislative
Executive
Judiciary
What is the phrase coined by a 1840's journalist that described the American mentality to move West.
Manifest Destiny
Called the meteor of the war because he unveiled the future of America on the debate of slavery. also tried a slave uprising by raiding the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown