Exploration and Colonization
Wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory, new trade routes to Asia through the Northwest Passage.
What is Reasons for Exploration?
The belief that Britain needed the colonists permission to pass taxes
What is Consent of Governed
Each branch of government has its own special power
What is Checks and balances
This Supreme Court Case established the principle of judicial review, allowing courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury versus Madison?
This invention, made by Eli Whitney, revolutionized the production of cotton.
A. The Cotton Gin
B. The Cotton Accelerator
C. The Cotton Generator
D. Enslaved labor
What is The Cotton Gin?
an economic theory and practice that encourages a country to increase wealth and power by exporting more than it imports
what is Mercantilism?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What is Unalienable rights
A solution to whether or not slaves would be counted for representation and taxation
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
This event in the early 1800s was caused by British interference with U.S. saillors.
What is the War of 1812?
This crisis in the 1800s involved South Carolina attempting to void a federal law.
What is the Nullification Crisis
Claimed land in the New World to profit from fur trading
What is France
Response to the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts
a group of colonists who supported the Constitution as well as a strong central government
Who were the Federalists
Whose plan to stabilize the new economy included the National Bank and a whiskey task
Who is Alexander Hamilton
This new economic system, based on supply and demand with minimal government regulation, emerged in the U.S. in response to restrictive colonial trade laws.
What is Free Enterprise?
Claimed Florida, Texas, California, built missions
What is Spain
A list of grievances against King George the 3rd
What is the Declaration Of Independence
Against the Constitution, supporting the Bill of Rights instead
What are the Anti-Federalists
This presidential address warned against political parties and foreign alliances to protect the stability of the new nation.
What is Washngton’s Farwell Address?
These man-made rivers helped lower the cost of goods and led to the growth of cities, particularly in the Northeast, like New York.
What are canals?
Colony founded for Catholics (Christians) seeking religious freedom
What is Maryland
Law prohibiting colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the. Proclamation of 1763
Decided how many representatives large and small states would send
What is Great Compromise
This 1823 notion, issued by a president, warned European nations against interfering in the western hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This political system expanded voting rights, favored common people, but was criticized by opponents for being too powerful and using the spoils system.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?