The Revolution
This British tax on printed materials sparked the first widespread colonial protest movement.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document, added in 1791, protects individual liberties such as speech, religion, and due process.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Thomas Jefferson described this 1803 land acquisition as his greatest achievement.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe intensified Northern opposition to slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This Republican candidate won the election of 1860 without carrying a single Southern state.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This event, in which British soldiers fired into a crowd, killing five colonists, occurred in 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This plan, favoring large states, proposed representation based on population in a single legislature.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This secretary of the treasury created the first national bank and proposed federal assumption of state debts.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This 1863 executive order declared freedom for enslaved people in rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued for complete independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This rebellion by farmers in Massachusetts helped lead to the creation of the Constitution?
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
This president signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law.
Who is John Adam’s?
This 1820 compromise balanced the number of free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Southern state became the first to secede from the Union following Lincoln’s election.
What is South Carolina?
This 1763 British proclamation attempted to prevent colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These essays, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, argued in favor of ratifying the Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
This 1823 speech warned European nations against further colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican–American War and added vast western territories to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This campaign devastated Georgia’s infrastructure and morale in 1864.
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Britain passed these punitive laws.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature with representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other.
What is the Great Compromise?
This crisis arose when South Carolina claimed the ignore a federal tariff.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This concept allowed settlers in a territory to vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Union naval strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?