American Revolution
In 1765, it taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, playing cards and stamps.
What is The Stamp Act
The market revolution caused young farming women in the early 1800s to seek work in New England factories because many goods women traditionally made could now be purchased at the market, making women’s labor _____ valuable at home.
Hint: More or Less?
What is less valuable?
The country name created by the South after the ceded from the Union
What is the Confederate States of America?
The man who assassinated President Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
To protest the Tea Act, colonists dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor, marking this event
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document written by Thomas Paine urged Americans that the smart thing to do, is declare independence from Great Britain
What is Common Sense?
The purchase of this territory from France nearly doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The region of America in the 1800's that developed large cities, many immigrants, and industry and manufacturing.
What is the North?
The king of England at the time of the American Revolution
Who is King George III
Harriet Tubman guided slaves to freedom via
What is the Underground Railroad?
Distributing power among 3 branches of government, to make sure one branch does not become too powerful
What is checks and balances?
Native Americans were moved from Georgia to Indian Territories in Oklahoma because of Andrew Jackson's
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The idea of placing the interests of your region ahead of the nation as a whole
What is Sectionalism?
The 7th President of the United States; the president who allowed the Indian Removal Act
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This became the first cash-crop in the American south
What is tobacco?
Congress cannot mandate a national religion. This is found in which Amendment?
What is the 1st Amendment?
In 1823 which president created The Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed the U.S. protector of the Western Hemisphere by forbidding European powers from colonizing additional territories in the Americas. In return, this president committed to not interfere in the affairs, conflicts, and extant colonial enterprises of European states
Who is President James Monroe?
The commanding general of the Confederate Army
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The author of 51 essays in The Federalist Papers
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What was the first permanent English colony in "The New World"?
John Peter Zenger was a harshly criticized a corrupt royal governor. He was put on trial for criticizing this governor. Which of the freedoms guaranteed in the 1st Amendment protect John Peter Zenger today?
What is Freedom of the Press?
The creation of this, turned New York into the leading commercial city
What is the Erie Canal?
The agreement to allow California to enter the Union as a free state, and Texas to enter as a slave state
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Supreme Court case centered around this slave and his wife, which upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Who is Dred Scott?
This phrase represented the anger among the colonists, after taxes were passed by the British without their consent
What is "No Taxation Without Representation?"