This geographical feature limited the 13 colonies to the eastern seaboard.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
This is considered to be the first legislature in the English colonies in North America.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
100
The economic system that developed in early America is called this.
What is the free enterprise system?
100
The president of the U.S. during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This territory was purchased in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson.
What is Louisiana?
200
This was the western boundary of the United States following the American Revolution.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This document was signed by the Pilgrims as an agreement to have self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
This invention led to the expansion of slavery and the plantation system.
What is the cotton gin?
200
The commanding general of the main Southern Army (the Army of Northern Virginia).
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This Battle of the Alamo is often identified with this idea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
This was a renewed interest in religion that happened in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
What is the Great Awakening?
300
The Great Compromise established this feature of the U.S. government.
What is a House of Representative with representation based on population and a Senate with 2 members per state?
300
The War of 1812 led to what economic changes in America.
What are the expansion of industry and manufacturing?
300
This war ended with the Treaty of Ghent.
What is the War of 1812?
400
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
This is the primary cause of economic differences among the colonies of North America.
What is geography?
400
This was the idea that state should be allowed to declare laws that they considered unconstitutional null & void.
What is the Doctrine of Nullification?
400
This invention allowed unskilled labor to be used in factories and made manufacturing easier and cheaper.
What are interchangeable parts?
400
These essays were written to convince people to vote for ratification of the Constitution.
What are the "Federalist Papers?"
500
He was a member of the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence and the 2nd president of the U.S.
Who is John Adams?
500
This immigrant group came to the U.S. in the 1840s due to a potato famine in their home country.
Who are the Irish?
500
The Fugitive Slave Act, banning of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, admission of California as a free state, and Texas giving up land were all part of these series of laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
This economic system called for countries to accumulate as much gold as possible and to establish colonies to sell goods to and get raw materials from.
What is mercantilism?
500
The Supreme Court case "Marbury v. Madison" established this principle.