Colonial Era/ Revolution
First 10 Amendments that guarantee individual rights.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The main effect of the War of 1812.
What is the growth of domestic manufacturing?
The president during the Mexican American War
Who is James K. Polk?
The Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Three motivations for European Exploration.
What are gold, god, and glory?
Which government had many weaknesses and because of its failure led to the writing of the United States Constitution?
What is Articles of Confederation?
Which president dealt with the Whiskey Rebellion?
What is George Washington?
49ers were on their way to California for what reason?
What is the discovery of gold?
This president was the first to be impeached due to his handling of Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The First Representative Government in the colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
System where Jackson gave his friends and supporters jobs, though they were unqualified.
What is the spoils system?
Machine that increased production of a major cash crop, but ALSO increased slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
The significance of the Battle of Fort Sumter.
What is the first battle of the Civil War?
King told colonists they could not settle past this natural boundary after the French and Indian War
Proclamation Line OR Appalachian Mountains
The three branches of government and who makes them up
What are Judicial (Supreme Court), Legislative (Congress), and Executive (President)?
Main reason Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from the French.
What is to control the Mississippi River?
To avoid fighting two wars at once, the U.S. purchased ____ from the British in 1846.
What is the Oregon Territory?
Two generals the led opposing sides of the Civil War.
Who are Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant?
A principle of the Constitution that states the government has only the power that the Constitution gives it?
What is limited government?
A tariff is passed that is bad for the South and great for the North, the South tries to cancel the law, Jackson says no. The South tries to secede, Jackson uses force.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Location where the Union captured the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg, Mississippi?