Colonization & Early America
English settlers established colonies in New England primarily for what reason?
To escape religious persecution
According to John Locke, if a government doesn’t protect natural rights, the people…
Have the right to rebel or abolish the government
In the U.S. government, what is the supreme law of the land?
The Constitution
Slavery’s expansion divided the country along what lines?
Section lines
What Union victory cut the Confederacy in two?
Vicksburg
The Jamestown colony grew successful because of which cash crop?
Tobacco
What officially ended the Revolutionary War and set the nation’s boundaries?
Treaty of Paris 1783
The House of Representatives is divided according to…
State population
Under which law could free African Americans be falsely taken into custody?
Fugitive Slave Act
What event led southern states to secede?
Lincoln’s election
What prohibited European settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
Antifederalists wanted a bill of rights because they…
Feared too much power was given to the national government
The U.S. declared war on which country in 1812?
Britain
One solution of the Missouri Compromise was that Missouri…
Entered as a slave state and Maine as a free state
What key difference ultimately led to the Civil War?
Southern economy depended on slavery; Northern did not
How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the South?
It strengthened the institution of slavery
What resolved the representation debate between slave states and free states?
Three-Fifths Compromise
What was Reconstruction?
A plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War
Which amendment banned slavery in the U.S.?
13th Amendment
What was the aim of “total war”?
To break the Southern people’s will to fight
The government set forth in the Constitution is a federal system because it…
Divides power between national and state governments
Why did the Constitutional Convention establish checks and balances?
To prevent any branch from dominating the others
What was the main importance of the 15th Amendment?
Granted African Americans the right to vote
What was the immediate effect of the Civil War?
The South was socially and economically devastated
Laissez-faire relies on what to regulate prices and wages?
Supply and demand