The Acts
Act that taxed sugar, wine, indigo, and molasses
What is the Sugar Act?
The name given to the first 10 amendments of the constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This gives citizens the right to bear arms (own a firearm).
What is the Second Amendment?
Men sent by Jefferson to investigate the newly purchased Louisiana territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
When a crop is grown for economic profit.
What is a Cash Crop?
Act that required colonists to purchase all tea from the East India Trading Company
What is the Tea Act?
Man who wrote the Bill or Rights.
This prevents citizens from having to allow troops to live in their homes.
What is the Third Amendment?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Device invented that increased the speed in which seeds were removed from cotton balls.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Act that put taxes on any type of paper?
What is the Stamp Act?
Rights guaranteed under the 1st Amendment.
What are Speech, Assembly, Religion?
This guarantees that you may not have your vehicle, house, etc. searched unreasonably.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The Native American who helped in the exploration of the newly purchased territory along with her husband.
Who is Sacagawea?
The man credited for the invention of the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Act that said colonists had to house and feed British soldiers?
What is the Quartering Act?
Issued by a judge or court that allows the police to search, arrest, or seize another person.
What is a Warrant?
This guarantees that there is no cruel or unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
The country who sold the United States the Louisiana Territory for the price of 15 Million.
Who is France?
An accidental result of the invention of the cotton gin.
Increase in the use of slave labor.
Acts that were passed as a response to the Boston Tea Party to punish the colonists for their rebellious activity.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This is when proven innocent, you may not be tried for the same crime (what's it called?)
What is Double Jeopardy?
The right to a jury in all civil court cases.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
The west side of this river is where the exploration of the Louisiana Territory began.
What is the Mississippi River?
The invention of the Cotton Gin may have accidentally led to this major historical event.
What is the Civil War?