Colonial Foundations
This region relied on cash crops and slave labor.
What is Southern Colonies?
Phrase meant colonists should not be taxed without their own consent.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
America’s first constitution.
What is Articles of Confederation?
The principle that power is shared between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This person created the national bank as part of his financial plan.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This economic system used the colonies to make England wealthier.
What is mercantilism?
Reasons Britain taxed colonies after the French and Indian War.
What is war debt and cost of defending the colonies?
This event convinced many Americans that the national government was too weak to keep order.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This amendment says powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states or people.
What is 10th Amendment?
This rebellion proved the new federal government could enforce its laws.
What is Whiskey Rebellion?
This British policy allowed the colonists to govern themselves.
What is salutary neglect?
Purpose of Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” cartoon.
What is colonial unity?
The compromise that created the Senate and House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
This principle means people elect representatives to govern them.
What is republicanism?
This law made it a crime to criticize the president or Congress.
These geographical differences caused colonial regions to develop different economies.
What is climate, soil, growing seasons, and natural resources?
This 1773 protest involved colonists destroying British tea.
What is Boston Tea Party?
The compromise that counted slaves as part of a state’s population for representation.
What is Three-Fifths Compromise?
This Supreme Court power was first used in the Marbury v. Madison ruling.
What is judicial review?
These competing interpretations divided Hamilton and Jefferson over the Constitution?
What are loose vs. strict interpretation?
Ways colonies already governed themselves before independence.
What is making laws, electing representatives, and governing locally.
This person's ideas about natural rights, consent of the governed, and the right to replace abusive government influenced the Declaration of Independence?
Who is John Locke?
This weakness in the Articles of Confederation was fixed by the Constitution.
What is a stronger national government with power to tax, regulate trade, and enforce laws?
This was added to the Constitution to protect individual rights and limit the power of the federal government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase was ironic (the opposite of what you think will happen) for this reason.
What is he believed in strict interpretation, but buying Louisiana required him to use broad federal power?