Colonies
This colonial region's rocky soil and cold climate made it ideal for shipbuilding, fishing, and trade.
New England
"No taxation without..."
Representation
This 1803 land acquisition doubled the size of the U.S. and gave control of the Mississippi River.
Louisiana Purchase
This 1820 established the 36 30 line
Missouri Compromise
This event in 1860 triggered southern states to secede from the Union.
Election of Lincoln
This 1620 agreement, signed on a ship coming to America , established a government based on the consent of the governed.
Mayflower Compact
This 1765 law required colonists to buy special paper for legal documents, newspapers, and licenses, angering many Americans.
Stamp Act
This 19th-century belief justified westward expansion, stating it was "God's will" that America expands from sea to sea
Manifest Destiny
This 1850 agreement admitted California as a free state and included a stricter fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
This type of government power was cited by the South as a reason to secede.
This legislative body in Virginia was the first example of representative government in the colonies.
Virginia House of Burgesses
This movement emphasized reason, natural rights, and the idea that governments exist to protect people’s freedoms.
The Enlightenment
This war gave the U.S. territories including California and Arizona.
Mexican-American War
This novel influenced Northern attitudes about slavery by showing the cruelty of the system
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, this declared that all slaves in Confederate-held territory were free and allowed African Americans to join the Union army.
These laborers worked for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America, unlike Africans brought to the colonies permanently.
Indentured servants
Delegates met here in 1787 to create a stronger national government after the Articles of Confederation proved ineffective.
Constitutional Convention
This 1823 policy warned European nations not to interfere in the Americas.
Monroe Doctrine
This idea let settlers in new territories decide about slavery themselves, leading to violence in Kansas.
Popular sovereignty
The North and South had different economies, cultures, and ways of life; these differences are called this.
Sectionalism
After this war, tensions grew between the colonies and Britain because the British taxed the colonies to pay for it.
French and Indian War
Anti-Federalists were worried this new U.S. governing document gave the national government too much power; their concerns were partially addressed with this addition.
Bill of Rights
This law forced Native Americans off their lands, resulting in the Trail of Tears.
Indian Removal Act
In this 1857 Supreme Court case, the court ruled that African Americans were not citizens, angering many in the North.
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Violence erupted in this territory as pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers fought over whether slavery would be allowed.
Bleeding Kansas