Road to the Revolution
This 1765 British law taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
America’s first constitution created a weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This first president warned against political parties and foreign alliances.
Who is George Washington?
This belief stated that the U.S. was destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1863 speech by Abraham Lincoln honored soldiers who died at a Pennsylvania battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Colonists protested British taxes using this slogan.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This 1787 meeting in Philadelphia was originally meant to revise the Articles.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1863 document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1770 incident involved British soldiers firing into a crowd in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This 1774 meeting brought colonial leaders together to respond to British actions.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This plan proposed representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This 1812 war was fought against Great Britain for trade rights and national honor.
What is the War of 1812?
This movement sought to end slavery and included leaders like Frederick Douglass.
What is Abolitionism?
This Union general later became the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
These essays supported ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This doctrine warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1848 women’s rights meeting issued the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This 1865 amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?