Q1 - Colonies
This was the main economic activity for the Southern Colonies
What is the agriculture or the growing of cash crops?
During the Constitutional Convention, arguments over the Virginia and New Jersey Plans were solved by this decision, which created our bicameral or two-house Legislative branch of government
What is the Great Compromise?
This land, which doubled the size of America at the time, was acquired by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 when he bought it from France
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This compromise in 1820 led to Missouri being admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine being admitted as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
a crop, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit
What is a cash crop?
This was one of the main economic activities of the New England Colonies
What is trade, shipbuilding, or fishing?
These are the natural rights as described in the Declaration of Independence
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This war, during the presidency of James K. Polk, happened because of the disagreement over the border between Texas and Mexico and the United State's annexation of Texas
What is the Mexican-American War?
This compromise tried to appease the interests of both the industrialized North and the agrarian South in the following ways: admitting California as a free state, banning the slave trade in Washington D.C., stronger fugitive slave laws, and introducing popular sovereignty in the territories of Utah and New Mexico
What is the Compromise of 1850?
to refuse to buy one or more goods from a certain source
What is a boycott?
In this colonial region you would find the following colonies: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
What are the Middle Colonies?
This document was the first plan of government for the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
This act, initially introduced by Stephen A. Douglas for the construction of a railroad, incited terrible violence in the territory of Kansas as a result of the popular sovereignty regarding the issue of slavery in that territory
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a closing off of an area to keep people or supplies from going in or out
What is a blockade?
This colony was founded by Puritans who came to the New World on the Mayflower in order to have freedom to practice their religion
What is Massachusetts?
This political group did not like the U.S. Constitution as it was initially drafted, thinking that it gave too much power to the federal government and were concerned that it would impede states' and people's rights.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
The land dispute between the United States and this country was solved by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which established the northern border of the United States
What is Great Britain?
This battle was a turning point in the American Civil War; President Abraham Lincoln would later make a famous speech at the dedication for its military cemetery
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
a tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country
What is a tariff?
This colony was founded by Lord Baltimore as a financial enterprise and as a safe haven for people of the Catholic faith
What is Maryland?
This battle was a turning point in the American Revolutionary War; the Patriot victory at this battle convinced France to lend aid to the Patriots
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This land was purchased from Mexico in 1853 because it provided a good railroad route to California
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in this area
What are the states in rebellion or the Confederacy?
the right of an accused person to appear in court so a judge can determine whether he or she is being imprisoned lawfully
What is habeas corpus?