social studies
The first war as the United States
War of 1812
The primary reason for the establishment of the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
What is Religious freedom?
Prompted the creation of the middle class
What is The Industrial Revolution
What word means "taxes on imported and exported goods"?
tariffs
The Virginia House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut influenced the U.S. government.
What is they established foundations for self-government?
Why was Thomas Jefferson’s negotiation of the Louisiana Purchase significant?
It almost doubled the size of the United States territory.
impacted the economic growth
What is transportation in the 1800s
Improved through the use of steamboats
What is water transportation
Which state's plan favored smaller states with a unicameral legislature and representation based on being a state (1 senator per state)
New Jersey Plan
the significance of the year 1776
What is the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence
What differences existed between Loyalists’ views and Patriots’ views during the American Revolution?
The Loyalists did not want to end British rule, which promised stability. The Patriots wanted to break from British rule
What document includes the rights listed below and more, and why was it added to the U.S. Constitution?
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
Freedom of the press
Freedom of assembly
Right to bear arms
Bill of rights
the Law of the Land
What is the Constitution?
Improved inland travel and lowered costs of goods and production
What is the railroad
Cotton production prices decreasedwith the invention of this.
What is the cotton gin?
What path of trade connected Africa, Europe, and North America?
triangular trade
Who were the federalists?
Those who wanted to ratify the constitution
helped industry become more important than agriculture
What is new technology
Read the quote. How does Sullivan support and justify American expansion westward? (5.2.2)
The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and . . . self-government entrusted to us.
—John L. O’Sullivan, New York Morning News, December 27, 1845
He says it is a divine right that justifies American expansion.
What was the significance of the Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia?
It ruled that Georgia could not impose laws on Cherokee land, though Jackson ignored it