Colonization
This was a pioneering document in the development of American democracy, creating a framework for self-government based on consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are considered _______________ rights.
What is unalienable?
This amendment protects freedoms such as Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This doubled the size of the United States and expanded presidential powers.
Louisiana Purchase
This prohibited the federal and state governments from denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The first form of representative governed in the colony of Virginia.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This is who the American colonists were breaking up with in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is King George III?
What is the British/English?
This resolution solved the issue of representation of enslaved individuals in the population count.
What is the Three-Fiths Compromise?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This economic system led to policies that encouraged colonies to supply raw materials to the mother country while purchasing manufactured goods from it, aiming to increase national wealth.
What is Mercantilism?
This forbid colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This principle divides government authority into three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful
What is Separation of Powers?
This political party believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and and that a national bank would favor manufacturing at the expense of agriculture.
What are the Democratic-Republicans?
This government agency provided food, housing, education, and legal assistance to newly freed African Americans and poor white citizens in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These are the four reasons for Exploration.
What is Political, Economic, Religious, and Social?
This was passed by King George III as a result of the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
This agreement merged the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan, creating a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in one house and equal representation in the other.
What is the Great Compromise?
This economic system allows individuals to own and operate businesses with minimal government interference, emphasizing competition, profit, and private ownership.
What is free enterprise?
This compromise allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave act of 1850?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The economy of this colonial region is known for timber/lumber, rocky soils, short winters, family farms, shipbuilding, fishing in the harbor, and trading.
What is the New England colonies?
This is considered the turning point of the American Revolution, leading to the French allying with the American colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This group, led by figures like Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, supported a strong central government and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalists?
This is a warning to European powers that they can no longer colonize the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
These group advocated for harsh and punitive policies toward the South during Reconstruction, including civil rights for freedmen and military occupation of Southern states.
What are the Radical Republicans?