Colonies
First permanent English colony in North America
What is Jamestown?
“No taxation without representation” protest focused on this 1765 tax.
What is the Stamp Act
America’s first national government plan
What are the Articles of Confederation?
First President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
Invention that greatly increased cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
Agreement signed aboard the Mayflower to create self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Event where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Plan that created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
President who made the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Movement that inspired social reforms in the 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Founder of Pennsylvania and leader of the Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
First battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
Added to protect individual freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Scandal involving French agents demanding bribes.
What is the XYZ Affair?
Meeting that launched the women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Colony founded by Roger Williams for religious freedom.
What is Rhode Island?
Pamphlet by Thomas Paine that pushed independence.
What is Common Sense?
Supreme Court case that established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Warning against permanent foreign alliances in a farewell address.
Who is George Washington?
Law that forced many Native Americans westward.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
English took this Dutch colony and renamed it New York.
What is New Netherland?
Major American victory that helped gain French support.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Division of power between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
Policy warning Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Rebellion showing weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?