Age of Exploration 1492-1607
The European colonial power that was most interested in establishing a fur-trade.
Who are the French?
This religious group settled in Pennsylvania and believed in equality, peace, and religious tolerance and freedom.
What are the Quakers?
This battle was a turning point of the Revolutionary War. After this, France became a ally to the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This uprising of farmers against high taxes and debt could not be stopped by the government and highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This political party supported lower tariffs and did not support the right of the government to impose taxes or to create a national bank.
What is the Democratic-Republicans?
The concept of being motivated by spreading Christianity/Catholicism during the European exploration of the Americas.
What is God?
This social contract was an example of the Pilgrims' belief that they had the right to govern themselves and it was the first form of self-government in the colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is another word for the complaints from the colonists that they outlined in the Declaration of Independence.
This ordinance within the Articles of Confederation set up a system for adding new territories, including banning slavery in territories north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This land acquisition by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 almost doubled the size of the United States and gave them full access of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The European colonial power who focused on settling along the Atlantic Ocean in North America.
Who are the English?
In 1619, this assembly was created to make laws for the new Virginia colony as a form of representative government.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This proclamation banned the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains following the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This principle of the US Constitution represents the sharing of power between the national government and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This uprising proved that the new central government had the ability and fortitude to suppress violent resistance to its laws (including tax laws).
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the West (New World) and East (Old World).
What is the Columbian Exhange?
This document from England stated that even the King had to obey the laws.
What is the Magna Carta?
This term refers to the practice before the French and Indian War in which the economic practice of Mercantilism was not strictly enforced by Britain.
What is salutary neglect?
This principle of the US Constitution demonstrates that the people (citizens) hold the power of the government.
What is popular sovereignty?
This court case established the concept of judicial review and stated that the Supreme Court has the final say in the interpretation of the Constitution.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
A fabled all-water route to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This economic policy benefitted England greatly, as the American colonists were only legally allowed to sell their natural resources to them
What is the "Intolerable Acts?"
The Great Compromise led to the development of this type of legislature. Under this system, the House of Representatives is based on state population and the Senate is represented equally with each state getting two senators.
What is bicameral legislature?
This person's plan to improve the economy included the federal government assuming the state debts and establishing a national bank.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?