Exploration & Colonization
This country built missions and claimed Florida, Texas, and California.
What is Spain?
This law prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This was the U.S.'s first government; it was weak and had no executive branch.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The belief that the U.S. should stretch from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
He was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He left Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island for religious freedom.
Who is Roger Williams?
These rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
This compromise settled the debate over how to count slaves for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Union gained control of the Mississippi River after this battle.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
The first anti-slavery group was founded by this religious group in Pennsylvania.
Who are the Quakers?
This battle convinced France to support the U.S. during the Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
he U.S.-Mexican War started because of this state's annexation.
What is Texas?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Virginia House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact contributed to this type of government.
What is representative/self-government?
These laws were Britain’s punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1848 discovery led to a population boom in California.
What is the Gold Rush?
This Reconstruction agency helped freedmen with education and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This economic system made colonists angry as Britain controlled all colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
Drafted primarily by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, this document justified the colonies' decision to separate from Britain by listing grievances such as taxation without consent and maintaining standing armies in times of peace.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
He was a Federalist who supported a strong national government and the National Bank.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This treaty ended the U.S.-Mexican War and gave the U.S. new land.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This system trapped former slaves in a cycle of debt and poverty.
What is sharecropping?