Colonial America
This colony, established in 1607, became the first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
This first governing document of the United States, ratified in 1781, was eventually replaced due to its weaknesses.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This political party, founded in the 1850s, was committed to stopping the expansion of slavery into the western territories
What is the Republican Party?
The trial of John Peter Zenger in 1735, a New York printer, established an important precedent for which future United States law, when he was arrested for publishing a critique on the British government
What is the 1st Amendment?
This 1803 land deal between the United States and France doubled the size of the nation and gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1692 event in Massachusetts led to the execution of 20 people, mostly women, who were accused of witchcraft, reflecting the religious tensions in the colonies.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued for American independence from Britain.
What is "Common Sense"?
This term describes the belief that it was America’s divine right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1830 law, signed by 7th President Andrew Jackson, authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears)?
This document, signed aboard a ship in 1620, established self-government for the Pilgrims
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The main author of the United States Constitution
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The warning from U.S President James Monroe to European countries, telling them to stay out of the affairs of Latin American countries in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review, allowing the Court to strike down laws it deems unconstitutional; the case regarding judges and their letter of approval by the former president
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1831 slave revolt in Virginia, led by a preacher, intensified fears of slave uprisings in the South.
What is Nat Turners Rebellion?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia, led by a disgruntled planter, was sparked by tensions between farmers and the colonial government over Native American policy.
What is Bacons Rebellion (1676)?
This 1765 act imposed a direct tax on printed materials in the colonies, sparking widespread protests; the first of the taxes imposed by Britian
What is the Stamp Act?
In 1787, this established a system for admitting new states to the Union and prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Following the Mexican-American War, this compromise was met which granted the United States the current states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This movement sought to end slavery in the United States and included leaders like William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
What is the abolition movement?
This colony, founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, was the site of the first Thanksgiving and had a government based on the Mayflower Compact.; The first Northern colony
What is Plymouth Colony?
This 1700s event involved the British practice of forcing American colonists to house and supply British soldiers, leading to widespread resentment.
What is the Quartering Act?
This Supreme Court case declared that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories; this man was taken from a slave state - to a free state - then back to a slave state
What is the Dred Scott case?
The compromise that admitted Missouri as a slave state, but Maine as a free state
What is the Compromise of 1820 (The Missouri Compromise)
This economic transformation in the early 19th century saw innovations in transportation, communication, and production, including canals, railroads, and the telegraph.
What is The Market Revolution?