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Colonial Period
Independence Movement
Constitution
Westward Expansion
Reconstruction Era
100
importation of enslaved Africans to the Western Hemisphere
What is The Triangular Trade?
100
Five people killed by British Soldiers
What is The Boston Massacre
100
A statement of rules and procedures for governing the U.S
What is the U.S Constitution
100
Idea that the U.S should posses the entire continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Time period following the Civil war, when the Southern State were reorganized and reintegrated back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction Era?
200
War for American independence from Great Britian
What is The french and Indian War?
200
Tax foreign molasses and printed materials
What is the Sugar and Stamp Act
200
Division of powers between the national and state government
What is federalism?
200
Promoted development of western lands by providing free land to the settlers
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
200
Law that formally abolished slavery in the U.S
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Period of time when the British ignored the colonies because they only wanted to benefit from the economic prosperity of the colonies
What is Salutary Neglect?
300
Taxes,imported goods and tea
What is the Townshend Act
300
Powers only granted to the Federal Government
What is Delegated Powers?
300
An increase in westward migration
What is the Gold Rush of 1849?
300
Attempts by state and local government to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after the end of the Civil War
What is Jim Crow Laws?
400
Early attempt to unify American colonies but under British rule
What is The Albany Plan of Union(1754)?
400
Colonists believed they could not be taxed by the British because they had no representatives in the British government.
What is taxation without representation?
400
Group of representatives from each state that propose,write,vote on laws, approve treaties
What is the legislative branch?
400
Made polices involving Texas,California,And Oregon Territory to fulfill the goal of Manifest Destiny
Who is President James Polk?
400
Northerners who moved down south to participate in Reconstruction governments
What are Carpetbaggers?
500
Economic policy used by the British in which the American Colonies serves as a source of raw materials and a market to sell goods.
What is The British Mercantilism?
500
States the grievances against British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
The framers of the constitution included the concepts of federalism,checks & balances, and separation of powers
What is Division of Power?
500
Supreme Court which ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories
What is the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
500
Supreme Court case that upheld the Jim Crow Laws based on the idea that the laws provided" seperate but equal" public facilities for African Americans
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson case?