Colonial America
This economic system used colonies to benefit the mother country through raw materials and trade.
What is mercantilism?
This writer used Common Sense to encourage colonists to seek independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This group supported ratifying the Constitution and a stronger national government.
Who were the Federalists?
This amendment protects religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment prohibits excessive bail and fines and cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
These British laws controlled colonial trade to benefit England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This American victory helped convince France to provide military support.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This plan proposed representation based on population, worrying smaller states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This amendment preserves jury trials in certain federal civil cases.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation and trade control in this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Washington used a nighttime evacuation and fog in 1776 to preserve this army.
What is the Continental Army?
This group feared a powerful central government and wanted protections for individual rights.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This amendment protects the accused from being forced to testify against themselves and includes due process.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
These 1844 Philadelphia riots involved attacks on Irish immigrants and Catholic churches.
What are the Philadelphia Nativist Riots?
France established many North American colonies mainly to develop this type of trade.
What is the fur trade?
This conflict involved the thirteen colonies fighting to gain independence from Great Britain.
What is the American Revolution?
This 1787 ordinance created a process for governing territories and admitting new states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This amendment guarantees a speedy, public criminal trial, an impartial jury, and legal counsel.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This amendment recognizes rights beyond those specifically listed in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
This colonial agreement established a government and promised obedience to laws made for the general good.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This country became an ally of the Americans after the victory at Saratoga.
What is France?
Hamilton supported this institution to help manage national debt and centralize federal tax collection.
What is the national bank?
This amendment reserves certain powers to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This thinker believed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?