Colonial Foundations & Society
Introduced by John Rolfe, this primary cash crop saved the Jamestown colony and became the economic foundation of Virginia.
What is tobacco?
The British policy of "salutary neglect" allowed the colonies to do this.
What is manage their own affairs (or self-govern)?
The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point because it convinced this nation to enter the war.
Who is France?
Voters directly elected the House of Representatives so they could choose those responsible for this.
What is taxing them?
The main reason people moved to urban cities during the Industrial Revolution.
What is to work in factories?
The primary goal of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
What is women’s rights?
The key religious principle shared by both Rhode Island and Maryland.
What is religious tolerance?
Locke and Rousseau both believed ultimate political power belongs to them.
Who are the people?
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress lacked the power to raise these to pay for war.
What are taxes?
The main focus of the first eight amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What are basic individual rights?
Britain bought most of this southern cash crop, linking their economies.
What is cotton?
He coined the term "Manifest Destiny" in 1845.
Who is John O’Sullivan?
The Caribbean island chain whose plantation owners brought slavery into South Carolina.
What are the West Indies?
Colonists resisted British taxes because they weren't approved by these bodies.
What are colonial representative assemblies?
Shays’s Rebellion exposed the central government’s inability to fix these problems.
What are financial problems?
Federalists thought a Bill of Rights was unneeded because this constitutional structure protected rights.
What is the separation of powers?
The overarching goal of the 1820 Missouri Compromise.
What is maintaining balance between slave and free states?
Great Plains tribes clashed with pioneers because their culture required this free movement.
What is a nomadic lifestyle?
The main ocean industry New Englanders turned to because farming was poor.
What is fishing (or whaling)?
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense convinced more colonists to support this.
What is independence?
The original goal of delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.
What is amending the Articles of Confederation?
Alexander Hamilton proposed creating this to stabilize early U.S. finances.
What is a national bank?
The fundamental principle that the doctrine of nullification directly contradicts
What is federal government supremacy?
The territory linked to the rally cry "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"
What is the Oregon Territory?
The restriction placed on enslaved people in South Carolina’s 1740 Slave Code to prevent revolts.
What is forbidding education (or reading and writing)?
French departure from the Ohio Valley to defend this city was a turning point in 1759.
What is Quebec?
The Framers ensured dual sovereignty by balancing federal power with this power.
What is state government power?
Judicial review allows the Supreme Court to check this legislative body.
What is Congress (or the legislative branch)?
The religious movement that sparked abolitionist reform in the 1820s
What is the Second Great Awakening?
President Polk balanced adding Texas as a slave state by acquiring this free territory.
What is Oregon?