Vocabulary
It is a form of protest.
What is boycott?
This is a person who supported the U.S. Constitution of 1787 as it was written.
What is a federalist?
It is found in the southern colonies, and is a crop grown for sale rather than for use by farmers.
What is a cash crop?
It is a shipboard contract signed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower before they landed in North America, binding them to abide by their own laws and establish a civil society.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
It is the ceremony that marks the beginning of a presidency.
What is an inauguration?
It is a partnership.
What is alliance?
This is a person who wants to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
It is a machine that separates the cotton seeds and hulls from the cotton boll and helped to increase the growth of cash crops.
What is the cotton gin?
It is an agreement that stated the people of Missouri could own slaves and be admitted to the Union along with Maine, a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
It is the 1779 incident in which British soldiers fired on locals who had been taunting them.
What is the Boston Massacre?
It is a war to protect one's own land, on familiar ground.
What is a defensive war?
This is an American colonist who supported Britain during the American Revolution.
What is a loyalist?
It is the buying and selling of slaves within the United States.
What is interstate slave trade?
It is the document declaring U.S. independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
It is a series of four laws passed to keep certain groups from immigrating to the United States; the laws gave the government power to expel aliens living in the United States and targeted U.S. citizens who criticized the U.S. government.
What is the Alien and Sedition Acts?
It is publishing lies.
What is libel?
This is a Spanish conqueror who sought gold and other riches in the Americas.
What is a conquistador?
It is the amount of money a government owes to all its creditors, including to other nations and companies.
What is national debt?
It is the section of the U.S. government that includes the courts and legal system, led by the Supreme Court; responsible for interpreting the law.
What is the Supreme Court?
It is an 1848 Women's Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in Seneca Falls, New York, and marks the beginning of women's suffrage.
What is Seneca Falls Convention?
It is a building that houses machinery for grinding grain.
What is a gristmill?
This person is the head of judicial branch of the government and presides over the Supreme Court.
What is Chief Justice?
It is an era (period of time) in which widespread production by machinery replaced goods made by hand.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
It is the approach to foreign policy that stated the American continents were no longer under European influence.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
It is the agreement that determined that only three-fifths of the total population of enslaved persons in a state would be counted for purposes of taxation and representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?