Colonial America
What economic system governed colonial trade, emphasizing exports over imports?
mercantilism
This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
Quartering Act
The first U.S. government, replaced due to its weakness.
Articles of Confederation
This 1803 deal doubled the size of the U.S.
Louisiana Purchase
This 1820 compromise maintained the balance of free and slave states.
Missouri Compromise
This 1676 rebellion highlighted tensions between frontier settlers and colonial elites.
Bacon’s Rebellion
This 1770 event was used as propaganda against British rule.
Boston Massacre
This compromise resolved how slaves would be counted for representation.
Three-Fifths Compromise
This term describes the belief that Americans were destined to expand westward.
Manifest Destiny
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased Northern opposition to slavery.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What was the first representative legislative assembly in the colonies?
Virginia House of Burgesses
This 1774 meeting of colonial delegates aimed to respond to the Intolerable Acts.
First Continental Congress
This series of essays supported ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
This movement aimed to eliminate alcohol consumption.
Temperance Movement
This law allowed territories to decide the slavery issue for themselves, leading to violence.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The "City upon a Hill" was a vision for what colony?
Massachusetts Bay
Who wrote Common Sense, urging independence from Britain?
Thomas Paine
Who led the first presidential cabinet and established financial policies?
Alexander Hamilton
This former slave became a powerful voice in abolition through his writing and speeches.
Frederick Douglass
This Supreme Court decision denied citizenship to African Americans.
Dred Scott decision
This 1739 uprising was one of the largest slave revolts in the colonies.
Stono Rebellion
This treaty formally ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
Treaty of Paris
This 1794 uprising was a response to federal excise taxes and showed federal power.
Whiskey Rebellion
This early 19th-century event changed how goods were produced and transported.
Market Revolution
This radical abolitionist led a raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859.
John Brown