Constitution
These are the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
What are religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech?
These rights are described in the Declaration of Independence as rights that cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
This was the main economic activity of the Southern Colonies.
What was plantation agriculture (or growing cash crops like tobacco and cotton)?
This invention by Eli Whitney made cotton production more profitable.
What is the cotton gin?
This famous speech by Abraham Lincoln honored fallen soldiers and emphasized liberty and equality.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
This document created America’s first national government before being replaced by the Constitution.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, encouraged Americans to support independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This was the primary goal of European explorers like Columbus.
What was to find a new trade route to Asia?
This economic system is based on private ownership and competition.
What is free enterprise?
The main causes of the Civil War.
What are states' rights, slavery, and sectionalism?
This principle divides power between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This battle is considered the turning point of the American Revolution.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This agreement signed by the Pilgrims is an early example of self-government.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This is the process of society changing from a agriculture based society to a factory/manufacturing based society.
What is industrialization?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What was the 15th Amendment?
This 1787 law created a plan for adding new states and banned slavery in certain territories.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the power of judicial review.
What was Marbury v. Madison?
This need helped lead to the growth of representative government in the colonies.
What was the need for distance from England, need for law-making structures, rights and traditions of Englishmen, and Salutary Neglect?
This term describes the process of people moving from farms to cities.
What is urbanization?
This was the main goal of the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War.
What was to reunite the country and rebuild the South while helping freed African Americans?
This agreement at the Constitutional Convention settled the dispute over representation in Congress.
What was the Great Compromise?
In his Farewell Address, this president warned against political parties and foreign alliances.
Who was George Washington?
This explains how the economies of the New England and Southern Colonies differed.
What is that New England focused on trade, lumber, fishing, or shipbuilding and the Southern Colonies on plantations and slavery?
This invention by John Deere improved the effectiveness of harvesting crops.
What is the steel plow?
These Southern laws restricted the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction.
What were Black Codes?