Life in the Colonies
The region made up of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
What are the New England Colonies?
The root cause of trouble in the colonies.
What are taxes (Stamp Act)?
The name of for the first plan the US had for their new government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The first TWO political parties of the NEW United States.
What are the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties?
They made life easier in the early to mid 1800s.
What are inventions?
The region made up of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The colonists' rebellious response to the Tea Act written by the British/
What is the Boston Tea Party?
It laid out a plan for the sale and settlement of the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
A major purchase of land from the French by President Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These TWO things made transportation cheaper and more efficient.
What are canals and railroads?
The colonial region made up of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The date Congress voted on and officially declared independence from Great Britain.
What is July 4, 1776?
The idea that the powers and duties of government are divided among separate branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
It moved 5 groups of American Indians from their lands to an area west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The idea that the US had the right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The country the American Indians sided with during the French and Indian War.
Who are the French?
The name for the introduction to the US Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution; these amendments listed certain guaranteed rights of all citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
An invention that made it faster to separate seeds from the cotton, which increased the demand for slaves.
What is the cotton gin?
It's discovery in California caused many people to move west.
What is gold?
Government decisions and actions were decided at these in the New England Colonies.
What are town meetings?
The three groups of people who not covered under the phrase, All Men are created Equal.
Who are women, American Indians and Africans (slaves, blacks)?
The house of Congress where representation is determined by population.
What is the House of Representatives?
It decided that Maine would be admitted as a free state in exchange for Missouri becoming a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The most common wagon used to travel west.
What is a prairie schooner?