Colonial America
This movement is known for
1. Addressing the problem of emotionally unfulfilling religions.
2. Preaching a message that anyone (free or unfree) could benefit from a relationship with God.
3. Preaching a message that stressed equality in God’s eyes.
4. Preaching Salvation
What is the Great Awakening?
Boycotts, petitions to the king and Parliament, violence and intimidation where all ways this group of people showed unrest against the British.
Who were the Colonists?
This system is made up of two houses in Congress; The House of Representatives, and the Senate.
What is a Bicameral?
The theory that money is what makes a nation powerful; as applied to colonies, this means that they existed only to enrich the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
After this war America saw a massive increase in manufacturing and economic independence
What was the War of 1812?
The Virginia colony ultimately became successful because they grew this Staple or Cash Crop.
What is Tobacco?
The calling together of the First Continental Congress came about after what tax act.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
This political party opposed the Constitution because they thought it gave the federal government too much power.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
How England governed the American colonies during the 1600s and 1700s, weak policy and enforcement
What is Salutary Neglect?
All of the following were events that led the United States into what war?
1. the British navy stopping American ships and taking sailors off of them (Impressment)
2. the British government seizing American ships for trading with the French
3. the British agents supplying Indians who then attacked the Americans
What is the War of 1812?
The Middle Passage (a part of triangular trade) is the portion of the process known for this harsh action.
What is enslaving West Africans?
This english Philosopher had a focus on the idea that people formed governments to protect their natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This Articles of Confederation event showed the nation that a strong national government was necessary to maintain law and order?
What was Shay's Rebellion
A system in which power is divided between a central government and state government
What is Federalism?
The Embargo Act of 1807 crippled the economy of which American region?
This is the reason most people like the Puritan's left Europe for the new world.
What is persecution or religious persecution?
This nation frequently sent us troops and funding, during the Revolutionary War.
Who were the French?
These powers are held and exercised by both national and state governments
What are Concurrent Powers?
A tax on foreign goods imported into a country
What is a Tariff?
This power allows federal courts to decide if state and federal laws are constitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
Because of its geography, the New England economy depended heavily on
What is Fishing, shipbuilding, and trading?
These Revolutionary battles were important because they boosted patriot morale, causing enlistments to increase.
What is the Battle of Trenton & Princeton?
This clause expand the enumerated powers of Congress when necessary and proper for the betterment of the nation.
What is the elastic clause?
A speech or action that encourages rebellion
What is Sedition?
This event saw Missouri seeking to gain admittance into the Union as a slave state. In order to maintain balance this compromise admitted Missouri as a Slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?