The Colonies
This was the purchase, transportation, and sale of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas.
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This Act was a tax on all paper goods in the Colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
What was the economic weakness of Congress in the Articles of Confederation that the Constitution addressed?
What is the Inability to Levy Taxes?
This President authorized the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of America, and had Lewis and Clark go explore the territory.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Majority of the Native American Indian population was wiped out/eliminated by this.
What is Disease?
After the French and Indian War was won, this Act prohibited the Colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation Act of 1763?
According to the Federalists, this was the main benefit of the new Constitution.
What is it created a stronger national government?
This President was known as the Father of the Constitution and was in charge during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
This crop turned the Jamestown settlement into a profitable enterprise.
What is Tobacco?
This country helped us defeat the British by surrounding them at the Battle of Yorktown?
Who is France?
Which constitutional principle best protects the public from abuse by any one branch of government?
What is Checks and Balances?
He was President during the 'Era of Good Feelings' and oversaw the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Who is James Monroe?
This economic system was favored by the British and was the main reason colonies were established.
What is Mercantilism?
List 2 different ways women helped support the Revolutionary War.
What is sewing, making soldiers uniforms, serving as nurses or spies, fighting secretly, and doing men's work on the farm.
The Great Compromise combined the New Jersey and Virginia Plans by creating these two houses in Congress.
What are the House (of Representatives) and the Senate?
He, a Federalist, was the first president to lose his own reelection.
Who is John Adams?