Colonial Foundations
This was the first written constitution in the American colonies, written in 1639 in Connecticut.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This act taxed printed materials and led to the rallying cry “No taxation without representation.”
What is the Stamp Act?
This clause allows Congress to make laws that are "necessary and proper."
What is the Elastic Clause?
This was the main cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This president was known as the “trust buster.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The Virginia House of Burgesses was important because it was the first of this kind of government in the colonies.
What is a representative legislature/government/congress?
This war caused Britain to go into debt, prompting them to tax the colonies more heavily.
What is the French and Indian War?
This purchase doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1863 proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This law was the first federal act to ban monopolies and unfair business practices.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This British policy allowed the colonies to govern themselves in exchange for loyalty and economic gain.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This law banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains after 1763.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality was issued to avoid getting involved in a war between these two countries.
What are France and Britain?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This NYC street was famously photographed by Jacob Riis to show poor tenement life.
What is Mulberry Street?
The voting rights in Connecticut were expanded beyond just church members to include these individuals.
Who are all free men?
This phrase captured colonists' anger at being taxed without representation in Parliament.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This doctrine warned Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed this group to join the Union Army.
Who are Black men?
This act completely banned immigration from Asia and reduced European immigration in the 1920s.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
Though under the British governor, this body in Virginia gave voice to colonists by being elected by landowners.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This British law was repealed due to colonial protests and boycotts.
What is the Stamp Act?
This Supreme Court case established that federal laws are stronger than state laws.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This event led seven Southern states to secede from the Union.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This company, led by Rockefeller, controlled 90% of the oil industry and became a symbol of monopolies.
What is Standard Oil?