The Colonies
Due to its hot and humid climate, and long growing seasons, this colonial region relied heavily upon cash crops and enslaved labor
What is the Southern Colonies?
Name one of the Three Branches of Government
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
As new states entered the Union, debates, compromises, and conflicts arise over the status of what institution? Early attempts were made to keep the balance of power in congress between these two sides.
What is enslavement?
The 11 States who seceded from the United States.
Who are the Confederate States of America?
This project used public lands in the West (often those who belonged to tribes of the Great Plains) to connect the East and West coasts, fueling a rapid settlement of the area
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The colony of New York was located in this colonial region.
What are the Middle Colonies?
What are the two systems established under the constitution that are designed to limit powers of THE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT? (Name ONE)
What are Checks-and-Balances? What are Separation of Powers?
Purchased in 1803 from France, this territorial acquisition more than doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Which Amendment below ended the institution of enslavement, except in the form of punishment for a crime, in the United States;
- 13th
- 14th
- 15th
What is the 13th
Large corporations that controlled entire industries and often used their power and wealth to influence political decisions.
What are monopolies?
The first two permanent British settlements in what would eventually become the 13 Colonies (Name ONE)
What are Jamestown and Plymouth?
What are the FIVE protections citizens have as guaranteed under the 1st Amendment? (Name THREE)
What are Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly, and Petitition?
He refused to enforce the Supreme Courts' ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, and ordered the start of the removal of tribes in the Southeastern U.S.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Which Amendment below established the ability for men of any race to vote in the United States;
- 13th
- 14th
- 15th
What is the 15th Amendment?
Government legislation that made plots of land available for those willing to settle it for a set amount of years before ownership was given over
What is the Homestead Act?
Jamestown, Plymouth, and New Amsterdam (N.Y.), all shared what geographic feature(s) in common?
A) Coastlines/Rivers
B) Mountains
C) Deserts
What are near coastlines/rivers?
Peter Zenger was put on trial for publishing defamatory (bad) remarks about the Governor of New York. He was eventually acquitted (not guilty) and his case is often looked at as an influence to this feature of the 1st Amendment.
What is Freedom of the Press?
Congressional Act that forcefully moved the 'Five Civilized Tribes' from their ancestral lands to the 'Indian Territory'.
What is the 'Indian Removal Act'?
This name describes the states who disagreed with secession but continued the institution of enslavement within their states.
Who are the Border States?
Government system the forced various tribes to settle on specific lands, become more reliant on the Government for food and resources, end their nomadic lifestyles
What is the reservation system?
This boundary line was created by the British as a means to keep the peace with native tribes after the French and Indian War. Colonists saw it as a limit to their economic opportunities by not being able to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763? (Proclamation Line)
A person who believes that State Governments should have more authority than a Federal Government, and favors protections for citizens would be characterized as. . .
Who are Anti-Federalists?
Which major waterway was secured through the Louisiana purchase, which more easily allowed access to the newly acquired West
What is the Mississippi River?
This Supreme Courts case established the doctrine referred to as 'Separate But Equal', officially legalizing segregation acorss much of the U.S.
Who is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Schools that were created to remove native cultural practices and force the adaptation of U.S. culture on native peoples
What are assimilation schools (Carlisle Indian School)?