Early and Colonial Times
When the Pilgrims came to the New World, they made a legal document agreeing to govern themselves
The Mayflower compact
The British call Americans ________.
Yankees.
Lewis and Clark went on an...
Expedition
A bicameral legislature divided into two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Congress
The first 10 amendments that guarantee rights and liberties to all Americans
Bill of Rights
First English colony in North America
Jamestown
James Madison wrote the _______________ to convince anti-federalists to sign the constitution.
Bill of Rights.
During westward expansion, people believed it was our destiny to expand westward across North America and remove Native American groups
Manifest Destiny
Ratify means to...
approve; agree with
Locke believed that people have _ _.
Natural Rights
People who claimed land in the Americas for the Spanish?
Conquistadors
A group of politicians in early U.S. History who opposed the ratification of the Constitution and believed in weaker government
Anti-Federalists
The act that President Jackson passed that allowed the government to remove natives was called...
The Indian Removal Act
The type of government that the Romans used and was later used in America
Representative Government
The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.
Religious Tolerance
The __________ __________ is a British document signed in 1215.
Magna Carta
A group of individuals who supported the Constitution and believed a strong central government was needed
Federalists
Pioneers traveled this 2,000 mile route westward from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon
Oregon Trail
To amend means to...
To change; To add onto.
A plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the dispute between how large and small states would be represented in government.
The Great Compromise
Cortez, the spanish conquistador, conquered this empire for Spain
The Aztec Empire.
A group of people that come together because they share the same ideas or beliefs about government and politics
A political Party
Where were the Cherokee people relocated to?
Modern-Day Oklahoma
The _ _ _ was the first American Constitution passed in 1777.
Articles of Confederation
The amendment that prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen's right to vote based on race or color
15th Amendment