Unit 1 - The Colonies
This colonial region was largely based on agriculture and a racial hierarchy.
What are the Southern Colonies?
What is that they were in a good deal of debt?
Presidential veto powers, judicial review, and impeachment are all examples of this concept.
What is checks and balances?
Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from this European nation.
What is France?
This Enlightenment thinker came up with the idea of Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
This was the first permanent established British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This was considered the final major battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This event showed the ultimate weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
This was the main reason for the War of 1812.
What is impressment?
This Great Awakening preacher was known for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This colonial region was the most religiously tolerant of the three.
What is the Middle Colonies?
This was the first direct tax on the colonists that really angered them.
What is the Stamp Act?
This Compromise established two houses of Congress and was the middleground between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan.
What is the Great Compromise?
These acts were passed together to curb the rights of French immigrants and American citizens who spoke out against the Adams Administration.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This Enlightenment thinker came up with the idea of Separation of Powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This established a racial hierarchy in the South and enshrined slavery as the main source of labor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This was the "turning point" of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This event was the only time that a sitting President had to lead the US Army to put down an uprising.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This act destroyed trade between the United States and both Britain and France.
What is the Embargo Act?
What is:
- Warning against political parties
- Warning against permanent foreign alliances