Colonization & Early America
This economic theory said colonies existed to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
He wrote about natural rights—life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
America’s first plan of government, later replaced.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This power lets the president reject a law.
What is a veto?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These English religious dissenters came to America for religious freedom and founded Massachusetts Bay.
Who were the Puritans?
Rights that cannot be taken away, later listed in the Declaration, are called these.
What are unalienable rights?
This 1787 meeting created a stronger U.S. government.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The Supreme Court gained this power in Marbury v. Madison.
What is judicial review?
This forced removal of the Cherokee occurred under Andrew Jackson.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This agreement aboard a ship in 1620 established self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This system divides government into three branches.
What is separation of powers?
He was the Supreme Court Chief Justice who strengthened federal power.
Who is John Marshall?
Land gained from Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This Enlightenment thinker believed in the social contract and influenced the Founders.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This compromise created a bicameral Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
Speech and press were limited by these controversial laws under John Adams.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This 1862 law gave free land to settlers moving West.
What is the Homestead Act?
Britain’s unofficial policy of allowing the colonies to run themselves was known as this.
What is salutary neglect?
A government where people elect representatives is known as this.
What is a republic?
These papers, written by Hamilton and Madison, urged ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The belief that the U.S. had the right to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The discovery of gold in 1848 caused a massive migration to this state.
What is California? (or What is the California Gold Rush?)