Colonial America
This area was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in Virginia in 1607
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This founding document of the United States was developed during the Second Continental Congress took the monumental step of declaring independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This amendment allows citizens the right to keep and bear Arms, "shall not be infringed upon"
What is the second amendment?
This ideology was upheld my descendants of European colonizers, believing that God has granted them the mission of owning the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was a protest about the tax on tea, levied without representation in the British Parliament and against the monopoly of the East India Company
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This settlement was founded by Pilgrims in 1620 who had separated from the Church of England
What is Plymouth?
This was a series of legislative bodies that served as the provisional government for the 13 American colonies from 1774 to 1789.
What is the Continental Congress?
This amendment guarantees the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases in federal court.
What is the 7th amendment?
This 19th-century movement of settlers and the United States' territorial growth across the North American continent, driven by the ideology of manifest destiny, fueled by land acquisition policies like the Louisiana Purchase and the Homestead Act
What is Westward Expansion?
1765 a British tax was imposed on the American colonies that required a stamp to be purchased and placed on all legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This state was one of the original 13 colonies and most popular for being the site of the Salem witch trials
Where is Massachusetts ?
The Second Continental Congress famously declared American independence in 1776 and established the ____ ____.
What are the Articles of the Confederation?
The first ten of these found in the Constitution are the foundation of our inalienable rights.
What are amendments?
The states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of Minnesota, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado were all acquired by Jefferson for $15mil
What is Louisiana Purchase?
A group of people who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution because they feared the new national government would be too powerful and threaten individual liberties.
*states rights
Who is the Anti-federalist
These crops: cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco are considered
This founding father was a leading delegate from Massachusetts who chronicled the proceedings and recognized the significance of the First Continental Congress.
Who is John Adams?
The __ of ___ is the founding amendments supporting our democracy
What are, the Bill of Rights?
This historic event was the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60,000 Native Americans of the "Five Civilized Tribes", including their black slaves, between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government
What is the Trail of Tears?
This act refers to a series of British laws that required the American colonies to house and supply British soldiers. The initial 1765 act prohibited settling in private homes but mandated that colonial legislatures fund barracks and supplies.
"What is the quartering Act?
This common grain became a key cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia.
What is rice?
This founding father and New York delegate is the namesake of a college of criminal justice in NYC and an important figure who helped shape the Congress's agenda.
Who is John Jay?
This delegate from Virginia owned a total of 317 enslaved peoples in his lifetime and led the First Continental Congress along with others like John Adams, would become a future leader of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
Members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands to what region of the United States?
*Hint- directions
What is the Southwest?
This is a slogan protesting when a government imposes taxes on people who have no say in their government. Historically, it was a major grievance of the American colonists against British rule.
What is "No taxation without representation?