Unit 1
The first group to successfully immigrate to the New World
What are Puritans/pilgrims?
This conflict prompted the British to raise taxes on the American colonies in order to pay off debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was the document which outlined the United States government before the ratification of the Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This U.S. president was known for his policies that negatively impacted Native Americans, hating the Second National Bank, and a "common man".
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This term means the desire of Americans to spread American values and institutions to the West.
What is manifest destiny?
An intellectual and political movement that started in Europe that heavily influenced the Founding Fathers.
What is the Enlightenment?
This made all paper products in the Thirteen colonies taxable by the British government.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document was added on to the Constitution in order to please Anti-Federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This term means to dislike those who were born in foreign countries, and is usually associated in American history with a disdain for Catholics.
What is nativism?
This piece of federal legislation determined that states below the 36°30′ line would be slave states, and state above it would be free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was the first self-governing document to be created in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This law restricted colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This founding father opposed Alexander Hamilton's financial plan and was Hamilton's main political opponent until the Election of 1800.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This white, Southerner female reformer was known for being an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.
Who is Angelina Grimke?
Kansas and Nebraska made their decision to be free or slave states based on this concept of government.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was a British policy that allowed the thirteen colonies to govern themselves without much British interference.
What is salutary neglect?
This book AND THIS AUTHOR changed colonial views from "no taxation without representation" to rebellion of the monarchy altogether.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
These acts made it illegal to criticize the government and easier for the federal government to deport immigrants during the French Quasi War.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This is a kind of tax designed to help American manufactures and discourage consumers from buying foreign manufactured products.
What is a protective tariff?
This conflict ended with the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo and increased sectionalism.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Enlightenment philosopher wrote of, "life, liberty, and property", and believed that humans were capable of self-government.
Who is John Locke?
This prototype of our legislative body today emerged in the years before the American Revolution and was made up of elected officials from the original colonies.
What is the Continental Congress?
This Supreme Court case established the concept known as "judicial review".
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This American policy forbid European countries from meddling in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This was a period in American history that focused on trying to repair relations between the former Confederate states and the Union.
What is Reconstruction?