Colonial America & Revolution
This country controlled the 13 colonies before the American Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
This branch of government enforces laws.
What is the executive branch?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This movement worked to end slavery.
What is abolitionism?
This 1941 attack caused the United States to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This phrase means colonists believed they should not be taxed without a voice in Parliament.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
This branch of government interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
This belief said the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
his women’s rights convention took place in New York in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This international organization was created after World War II to promote peace.
What is the United Nations?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged colonists to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
This compromise created a two-house Congress with representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other.
What is the Great Compromise?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This plan gave economic aid to Western Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This agreement helped establish self-government in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Supreme Court case said that Congress could create a national bank and strengthened federal power.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This law required citizens to help return escaped enslaved people to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
: This amendment banned alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This alliance was created by the United States and Western European nations during the Cold War.
What is NATO?
This event was the first major battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
This Supreme Court case said enslaved people were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in new territories to vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Progressive Era amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This Cold War crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union close to nuclear war in 1962.
: What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?