The American Colonies
Three "cash crops" in the Southern Colonies.
What is cotton, indigo,and tobacco?
How England ensured the colonies remained economically loyal to England.
What was the Navigation Acts?
Under the Articles of Confederation, each state's power in Congress was based on.
What is one vote per state?
How the Louisiana Purchase, purchased during the administration of Thomas Jefferson, affect the United States.
What is doubling the size of the United States?
The candidate that John Quincy Adams defeated in the controversial election of 1824.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
What Bacon's Rebellion exemplied.
What was the growing power of former indentured servants?
The policy practiced by England during the 17th & 18th centuries of not enforcing laws and leaving the American colonies relatively free to do as they pleased.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Be a U.S. citizen, be at least a certain age, live in the state he or she represents.
What are qualifications for a U.S. senator or representative?
When the FIRST political parties in the United Sates emerged.
What were the 1790's?
created a better transportation network to facilitate the exchange of goods.
What did the American System do?
Who New England settled by.
Who were puritans?
The act that limited colonists' westward movement past the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the proclamation of 1763
The position in which the person who serves as the president of the Senate also serves in.
What is the vice-president of the United States?
The impact the election of 1800 had on the transfer of power.
What was the first peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another?
They had adopted aspects of European culture.
Why were some Native American peoples in the Southeast called "the five civilized tribes"?
The year the first Africans were brought against their will to Jamestown.
What was 1619?
The law passed by Parliament that required colonists pay higher prices for goods by requiring them to have the approval of the government
What was the Stamp Act?
How long the term of a U.S. Senator is.
What is six years?
The fundamental difference between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.
What are conflicting viewpoints of the powers of the central government?
What Nullification promotes.
What are states' rights?
Where the Virginia Company of London was able to create a profitable settlement.
What is Jamestown?
The radical group founded by Samuel Adams in response to higher British taxes.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
How long the president of the United States need to be a U.S. citizen.
What is birth?
The first American Indian guide for Lewis and Clark's expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
Who was Sacajawea?
The man who enthusiastically supported the concept of states' rights.
Who was John C. Calhoun?