Road to Revolution
This event in 1770 was used as propaganda to show British cruelty.
Boston Massacre
This 1675 war involved Metacom and New England colonists.
King Philip's War
This 1787 meeting created the U.S. Constitution.
Constitutional Convention
This 1803 purchase doubled U.S. territory.
Louisiana Purchase
This movement pushed to end slavery in the US.
Abolition
Colonists protested this tax because it required printed materials to carry an official British stamp.
Stamp Act
This 1680 revolt temporarily drove Spanish out of New Mexico.
Pueblo Revolt
This compromise created a two-house Congress
Great Compromise
This conflict resulted in the annexation of the Southwest US and most of the west coast
Mexican-American War
This 1848 convention demanded women’s rights.
Seneca Fall's Convention
These 1774 laws punished Boston after the Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
This 1676 uprising showed tensions between wealthy planters and frontier settlers.
Bacon's Rebellion
The ratification debate split Americans into two groups
Federalists & Anti-Federalists
This 1820 compromise balanced free and slave states.
Missouri Compromise
This religious revival inspired many reformers.
Second Great Awakening
This 1763 conflict between Native Americans and Britain came after the French & Indian War and led to the Proclamation Line.
Pontiac’s War
All reviewed native & colonial conflicts shared this major cause.
Conflict over land
This rebellion showed the Articles government was too weak.
Shay's Rebellion
The debate over slavery expansion increased tension between these two U.S. regions.
North and South
This movement sought to limit alcohol consumption.
Temperance
Sons of Liberty
After Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginia elites shifted more toward this labor system.
Chattel slavery
These first 10 amendments were added to protect individual rights.
Bill of Rights
This period of nationalism sparked the idea of Manifest Destiny
Era of Good Feelings
This escaped slave became a famous abolitionist speaker and writer.
Frederick Douglass