The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is 1812?
This labor system, often tied to plantations, relied on enslaved Africans.
What is slavery?
The expedition began after this 1803 land purchase.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This preacher’s fiery sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” became famous.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This 1787 document replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
British practice of seizing American sailors.
What is impressment?
The main cash crop of Virginia and Maryland during the colonial era.
What is tobacco?
The expedition’s Shoshone guide and translator.
Who is Sacagawea?
English evangelist who toured the colonies and drew massive crowds.
Who is George Whitefield?
This collection of essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay argued for ratifying the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Future president who won the Battle of New Orleans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This colony was founded as a refuge for debtors and a buffer against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
U.S. military unit established by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and find a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Corps of Discovery?
Founded the Methodist church.
he Articles of Confederation gave too much power to these governments.
What are the states?
The treaty that ended the war in 1814.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
The wealthy landowning elite who dominated Virginia’s politics were called the ________ class.
What is the planter class?
This river was the main waterway followed by Lewis and Clark.
What is the Missouri?
Followers and preachers during the religious revivals of the Great Awakening who embraced emotional, experiential faith and individual conversion experiences.
What are "New Lights?"
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
At this meeting, New England Federalists opposed the war.
What is the Hartford Convention?
He founded the city of Savannah.
Who is George Ogelthrope?
Lewis and Clark stayed here during the winter of 1804–1805, located near the Mandan and Hidatsa villages in present-day North Dakota.
What is Fort Mandan?
The Great Awakening helped lay cultural foundations for this later political movement.
What is the American Revolution?