Exploration and Trade
Government
The American Revolution
Early U.S.
Westward Expansion
100
The three main reasons European explorers began their voyages.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
100
A type of government that gives unlimited power to kings and queens.
What is an Absolute Monarchy?
100
The image shows an event in Boston that is connected to the main cause of the American Revolution. What is the cause of this protest?
What is Taxation without Representation?
100
The name of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution that protect basic rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
The belief that God wanted the United States to conquer and settle the West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The event where men from Europe began traveling to unknown locations around the world.
What is Exploration?
200
This term describes an agreement between the people and their government.
What is a Social Contract?
200
This document’s purpose was to declare independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
This image shows our government structure. What document does it come from?
What is the U.S. Constitution?
200
Mexico offered U.S. settlers this to move into Texas.
What are land grants?
300
The transfer of people, raw materials, and products between the "Old World" and the "New World."
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
The power to tell others what to do and make decisions without needing permission.
What is Authority?
300
These two locations were the site of the very first shots of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
300
Andrew Jackson’s forced relocation of Native Americans is known by this name. (from the Native American perspective)
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
These are two important places (one is a body of water) that the U.S. gained full control over in the Louisiana Purchase.
What are the Port of New Orleans and the Mississippi River?
400
The trade system that moved slaves to the Americas, raw materials to Europe, and manufactured goods to Africa.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade (or Triangular Trade)?
400
Unlike a "subject," this person has many rights and responsibilities and participates in the government.
What is a Citizen?
400
This was the name of the first (and very weak) federal government created during the war.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
400
The practice of giving government jobs to political supporters instead of the most qualified people.
What is the Spoils System?
400
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and set the U.S. border at the Rio Grande.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
Using the image, state the economic system shown and how it works.
What is Mercantilism, and how did mother countries have a monopoly on their colonies?
500
The specific form of government the U.S. Constitution created for the new nation.
What is a Representative Democracy?
500
Before the Revolution, colonists were often described as these because they had "no agency."
What are Subjects?
500
Use the image to identify the early U.S. policy that gives the U.S. power in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
This immigration was a result of the Gold Rush. Who were they and where did they settle?
What are Chinese immigrants coming to California?