Cupid’s Colonies💘
The first successful English settlement in North America (1607) that began long-term English colonization.
What is the Jamestown Colony?
Name the 1776 document in which the colonies declared independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What 19th-century idea justified U.S. territorial expansion westward and is often summarized as the nation's "obvious" destiny?
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This term describes the period after the Civil War that appeared golden on the surface but was actually filled with corruption, poverty, and sharp wealth inequality.
What is the Gilded Age?
This ________ and _______ contributed to different economic activities in each colonial region.
i.e. Harbors and Ship Building in the New England Colonies and Large Plantations with Cash Crops in Southern Colonies.
What is climate and geography? or what is geography and climate?
This weakness in the Articles of Confederation meant that all states had equal representation in the unicameral congress.
To maintain a balance of power in 1820, Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, while Maine was admitted as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1896 Supreme Court ruling established the "separate but equal" doctrine, legalizing segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
These crowded, poorly constructed apartment buildings housed many immigrants in growing cities.
What are tenements?
The document created by the Pilgrims in 1620 that established a basic form of self-government for their colony and briefly explain its purpose.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The ___________ means that each branch of government has different responsibilities, and prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is separation of powers?
Signed in 1848, this treaty forced Mexico to cede over 500,000 square miles—including modern-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico—to the U.S. for $15 million.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Settlers were required to live on and improve the land for 5 year to receive the deed to their 160 acres under which act?
What is the The Homestead Act
The exclusive possession or control of the supply of a product or service in a market
What is a Monopoly?
The ___________ was the first law of its kind establishing Freedom of Religion.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
Included compromise between Federalist and Anti-Federalist in order to get the constitution ratified.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What are the first 10 amendments?
Though this 1832 Supreme Court case declared that Georgia laws had no force over the Cherokee Nation, President Jackson ignored the ruling, allegedly saying, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Passed in 1887, this act sought to assimilate Native Americans by breaking up communal tribal lands into individual plots, often resulting in massive land loss.
What is the Dawes Act (or the General Allotment Act)?
Social movement that aims to make gradual change, or change in certain aspects of society, rather than rapid or fundamental changes.
What is Social Reform?
In Virginia the _____________ paved the way for Self-Government in the United States.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Political Parties, a Cabinet, Congressional Committees and Judicial Review are all part of the
Unwritten Constitution
The 1857 ruling in this case declared that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not U.S. citizens as they were property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Passed in 1868, this amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws."
What is the 14th Amendment?
These four factors contributed to the rise of industrialization in the late 19th century.
What is natural resources, transportation, new energy supply and changes in communication?