COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS
This 1620 document is considered an early example of self-government and influenced later democratic practices.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This war fundamentally changed the relationship between Britain and the colonies due to debt and new policies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This document reflects Enlightenment ideals such as natural rights and consent of the governed.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This plan favored large states and influenced the structure of the House of Representatives.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This ideology justified territorial expansion but increased conflict over slavery.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This economic policy required colonies to provide raw materials to the mother country while buying finished goods, limiting colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
This act was significant because it directly taxed colonists and sparked organized resistance
What is the Stamp Act?
These battles demonstrated the shift from protest to armed conflict.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This compromise resolved representation disputes and shaped federalism.
What is the Great Compromise?
This law led to the Trail of Tears and reflected federal power over Native nations.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This institution developed in the colonies and became central to the system of forced labor and economic production.
What is slavery?
This phrase reflects colonial arguments rooted in Enlightenment political theory.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This encampment highlighted both the weakness and resilience of the Continental Army.
What is Valley Forge?
These amendments were added to address Anti-Federalist concerns about individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This war intensified debates over slavery through the addition of new territories.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This religious movement encouraged individualism and challenged traditional authority in the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
This event was used as propaganda to unite colonists against British rule.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This battle was decisive due to French support and effectively ended major conflict.
What is Yorktown?
This case strengthened the judiciary as a co-equal branch of government.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This Supreme Court decision deepened sectional conflict by denying citizenship to African Americans.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This economic system connected the colonies, Africa, and Europe in the trade of goods and enslaved people.
What is triangular trade?
This protest led directly to punitive British laws known as the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This treaty recognized U.S. independence and established new national boundaries.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This compromise revealed growing sectional tensions over slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This amendment was a key outcome of the Civil War and transformed the Constitution.
What is the 13th Amendment?