Colonial America
This colonial region was characterized by long and hot summers.
What were the Southern Colonies or the South?
The Sons of Liberty staged this act of protest in response to the Tea Act.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The Constitution grants this branch of government the power to make laws.
What is the Congress or the Legislative Branch?
Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States with this action.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Many poor immigrants had no choice but to live in these overcrowded types of apartments in cities during the Gilded Age.
What were tenements?
This ship was believed to be destroyed by the Spanish in Havana harbor.
What was the U.S.S. Maine?
This document, signed in 1620, was the beginning of self-government in New England.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The ideas of this Enlightenment philosopher greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson.
Who was "John Locke?"
The New Jersey Plan, the Virginia Plan, the Great Compromise, and the 3/5 Compromise were all attempts to resolve this issue.
What was representation?
This compromise, passed in 1820, banned slavery north of the 36-30 line.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This 1862 law granted settlers 160 acres of land in the West.
What was the Homestead Act?
This term was used to describe newspapers that sensationalized and exaggerated the news.
What was "yellow journalism" or the "yellow press?"
This geographic feature prevented expansion of the colonies west of the Atlantic seaboard.
What was the Appalachian Mountains?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine convinced many Americans to support independence.
What was "Common Sense?"
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay published these essays to convince people to support the ratification of the Constitution.
What were "The Federalist Papers?"
This event, which began in 1848, led to a huge migration of people to California and the Compromise of 1850.
What was the California Gold Rush?
This agency was established in 1865 to provide assistance to the newly-freed slaves in the South.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This famous "Rough Rider" resigned his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to lead a volunteer cavalry regiment in the Spanish American War.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This economic policy benefited Great Britain, by using the colonies as a source of raw materials.
What was mercantilism?
The preamble to the Declaration of Independence states that all people are born with these "unalienable rights."
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of Judicial Review.
What was "Marbury v. Madison?"
This abolitionist violently resisted the expansion of slavery in Kansas and led the failed raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who was John Brown?
This exploitative form of farming came to dominate the South after the Civil War, keeping many Freedmen in poverty and debt.
What was Sharecropping?
This term was used to describe those Americans who were opposed to attempts to acquire colonies.
What was "anti-imperialists?"
During the Colonial Era, the British followed this policy, which entailed permitting the colonies to govern themselves.
What was Salutary Neglect?
The United States sought the alliance of this country to help them defeat the British in the Revolutionary War.
What was France?
This president was impeached in 1867, but not removed from office.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This Supreme Court case stated that Blacks could never be citizens and greatly increased sectional tensions.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
During the late-19th Century, pogroms in Russia convinced many of these people to immigrate to the United States.
Who were the Jewish people?
This archipelago was annexed by the United States in 1898, primarily for its strategic location in the central Pacific Ocean and later became a state.
What was Hawaii?