Important Documents
Early Acts
Purchases and Agreements
Treaties and Agreements 2.0
Amendments
100
Benjamin Franklin created this political cartoon originally for this major conflict.
What is the French and Indian War (Seven Years War)?
It would later be used in the American Revolution and the Civil War.
100
A tax on paper
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Gave the United States Florida.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
100
Ended the French and Indian War
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?
100
The Right to Bear Arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
200
Three Agents met with Chief Justice John Marshall in France demanding bribes for Foreign Minister Talleyrand.
What is the XYZ Affair?
200
Punishments for the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)?
200
United States territory (purple) by 1853. Hint: the dotted line represents a railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
200
Ended the War of 1812
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
200
Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and the Right to Petition
What is the 1st Amendment?
300
The United State's first government body that would eventually be replaced following Shays' Rebellion.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
300
A tax on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
What is the Townshend Acts?
300
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
Ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
The right to remain silent, double jeopardy, and eminent domain
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
Describes the principles of government in its preamble while also providing descriptions for how the government will work.
What is the Constitution?
400
Reminded the colonists the British monarchy could pass any act or law it wanted to on its American colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
400
Successfully removed the British presence from the Northwest Territory during Washington's Administration
What is Jay's Treaty?
400
Ended the American Revolutionary War
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
400
Ended slavery throughout the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
Silenced Democratic-Republicans about a potential war with France demonstrating a clear violation of the 1st Amendment.
What is the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
Mercantilism (carefully controlling wealth by carefully controlling trade throughout your empire)
What is the Navigation Acts of 1660?
500
Spain authorized the United States to use the Mississippi River and New Orleans as a right to deposit.
What is Pinckney's Treaty?
500
Ended the American Civil War
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
Reserved Powers of the states
What is the 10th Amendment?