Colonial America
This economic policy sought to ensure a favorable balance of trade by exporting more than importing.
What is Mercantilism?
This concept from Montesquieu influenced the U.S. Constitution, dividing government into three branches.
What is separation of powers?
This rebellion tested the strength of the new federal government under George Washington.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This act allowed California to enter as a free state and included a stronger Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This legislation provided settlers with 160 acres of land to encourage western settlement.
What is the Homestead Act?
This law required that colonial trade be carried on British ships, through British ports, and to Britain.
What are the Navigation Acts?
These two American diplomats secured French support during the Revolutionary War.
Who are Benjamin Franklin and John Adams?
This precedent set by George Washington established a group of department heads to help the President govern.
What is the Cabinet?
This side of the Civil War had the clear advantage with more people, railroads and industry.
What is the North?
This invention allowed people to work longer hours by extending light into the night.
What is the light bulb?
This time period allowed for the colonies to self-govern (ex. Townhall Meetings, Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses) as long as they were providing Britain with cheap raw resources.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This rebellion exposed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation, including the lack of a national military.
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
This president expanded suffrage by allowing all white males to vote, denied state's rights in the Nullification Crisis, and ignored the Supreme Court with the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
These three amendments aimed to grant freedom, citizenship, and voting rights to formerly enslaved people.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This industrialist used the Bessemer Process to dominate the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The colonial response to the Proclamation of 1763 that banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is ignored it?
This compromise determined that enslaved people would count as a fraction of a person for representation.
What is the ⅗ Compromise?
This doctrine warned European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This terrorist organization used violence to suppress African American rights during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This group of people provided the labor for the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are immigrants?
This colonial protest group formed in response to the Stamp Act.
Who are the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
This influence of the Declaration of Independence stated that people could overthrow a government that is no longer serving them.
What is Social Contract?
This system proposed by Henry Clay encouraged economic unity across the North, South, and West.
What is the American System?
This federal organization provided education, healthcare, and legal aid to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This was a main cause of the Plains Wars that Americans fought against Native Americans.
What is the settlement of the Great Plains?