Exploration and 13 Colonies
The three reasons the Spanish set out to colonize the new world.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
Event in which colonists protested the tea act and threw a lot of tea into Boston's harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Branch of Government involved in enforcing the laws and commanding armed forces.
What is the Executive Branch?
Important precedent set by Washington concerning how long a president should serve.
What is 8 years (2 terms)?
System in which officials are fired and replaced with supporters even if they are unqualified for the job.
What is the Spoils System?
Region of the 13 Colonies that was given the nickname "The Breadbasket"
What are the Middle Colonies?
Economic system in which a colony would send all their goods to a mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
Name 3 out of the 5 rights protected under the first amendment.
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?
Deal in which Jefferson administration bought 530 million acres of land from France.
What is the Louisiana purchase?
Political party got its start with Jackson and still exists to this day.
What is the Democratic Party?
Primary Reason for France setting up colonies in the New World.
What is establishing trading posts? (Fur Trade)
This act forced civilians to house, feed, and care for soldiers during times of peace.
What is the Quartering Act?
Government document that came before the constitution and failed due to being too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Doctrine that told Europe to stay out of the western hemisphere?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Event that involved the mass transportation of thousands of unwilling peoples to the present day state of Oklahoma?
What is the trail of tears?
Natural barrier that kept English colonists from settling further west.
What are the Appalachian mountains?
Often considered the turning point of the revolutionary war, and the battle that convinced France that the colonists could defeat Britain.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The outcome of the merging of the Virginia and New Jersey plans.
What is the Great Compromise?
Supreme Court case established the idea of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Battle that gained Jackson the status as a war hero even though by the time the battle was fought the war was already over.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Name one of the three examples of self government that occurred within the 13 colonies.
What are the Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Well known document drafted by members of the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Name 3 of the 7 Principles that went into the making of the Constitution.
What are Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, Republicanism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, and Individual Rights?
Name four out the five president talked about this unit.
Who are Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe?
Crisis that saw South Carolina commit treason against the United States over an issue involving tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?