This is where most people who were fighting against the British for independence thought that power should lie.
What is the people?
100
These are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution; they were developed after the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
This document was established to declare American freedom from King George III and Great Britain; it did not declare freedom for enslaved people in the colonies, though.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
The Union government's main objective in going to War in 1861 was this.
What is preserve the Union?
100
This rebellion in 1741 showed increasing resistance to slavery.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
200
This was the name of the act that required colonists to house British troops in their homes; many people in the colonies were very angry when they were required to do this.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
This part of the Constitution was one of the only direct mentions of slavery; it put into law that enslaved people were not considered full human beings in the eyes of the government.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
200
In the Constitution, this clause seemed to show acceptance of slavery; it established how much enslaved people counted toward Congressional representation (be sure to name the fraction in your answer).
What is the 3/5 Clause?
200
This organization was formed during the period of Radical Reconstruction to try to protect their pre-Civil War power.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
This religious group was known for its acceptance of women and opposition to slavery; it also advocated for freedom of worship.
What are Quakers?
300
A weakness of the government established under the Articles of Confederation was that they had no power to do this.
What is levy or set taxes?
300
This is the group responsible for selecting the President; it was designed to protect the presidency from public opinion.
What is the Electoral College?
300
This rebellion was an early threat to the newly established US government, when debt-ridden farmers attacked courts in western Massachusetts
What is Shays' Rebellion?
300
These are sets of laws put in place by Southern governments after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African-Americans; in response, Congress imposed its Radical Reconstruction.
What are Black Codes?
300
This movement in the 1700s led to the growth of institutions of higher learning and was opposed by established merchants in cities.
What is the Great Awakening?
400
This colony was the first to establish a representative government with its House of Burgesses in 1619.
What is Virginia?
400
This is the type of legislature that the Constitutional Convention set up, with the number of representatives per state being determined by the state's population and the number in the other house being the same.
What is a bicameral legislature?
400
This has sometimes been referred to as the best real estate deal in US history; through this, the US doubled in size in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
400
With the passage of this Constitutional amendment, the Congress was primarily concerned with protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
This European country supported American victory in the American Revolution against the British.
What is France?
500
This was the name of the British policy toward the colonies that essentially left the political affairs of the colonies alone.
What is salutary neglect?
500
This is how we describe the idea that no one branch of government can have too much power and each has the ability to set limits on the others.
What is checks and balances?
500
This document was drafted to protect rights not specified in the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
This part of the Compromise of 1850 was one of the more controversial; its strengthening angered many northerners and is seen as a cause of the Civil War.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
500
The decision in this Supreme Court case effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise.