Colonial Roots
This primary cash crop led to the first involuntary arrival of Africans in the Virginia colony.
What is Tobacco?
This 1763 law prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government lacked the power to collect these.
What are Taxes?
This 1823 policy warned European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1865 amendment abolished slavery throughout the entire United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1776 document, primarily authored by Thomas Jefferson, established the radical principle that "governments are instituted among men" and derive their "just powers from the consent of the governed."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This legislative assembly was the first representative government in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This landmark Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This term describes the belief that the U.S. was "divinely intended" to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe made the emotional realities of slavery vivid to Northerners.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This colonial region was known for its Puritan influence and use of town councils for direct democracy.
What are the New England Colonies?/What is New England?
This religious revival movement encouraged colonists to question authority and think independently.
What was the First Great Awakening?
This event was the first peaceful transfer of power between opposing political parties in U.S. history.
What was the election of Thomas Jefferson/election of 1800?
The forced removal of the Cherokee and other tribes ended in this present-day state.
What is Oklahoma?
This turning point battle in July 1863 was followed by a famous speech about "government of the people".
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This economic system dictated that colonies exist solely to benefit the "mother country" through trade and exports.
What is Mercantilism?
This American diplomat successfully negotiated the Treaty of Alliance with France.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This document, written by George Mason, was the direct model for the U.S. Bill of Rights.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
In the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, Spain ceded this territory to the United States.
What is Florida?
This 1831 event in Southampton County, Virginia, was the most famous slave rebellion in U.S. history.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This 1676 Virginia event saw a shift away from indentured servitude toward a greater reliance on enslaved African labor.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
Place these in order: Battle of Yorktown, First Continental Congress, Treaty of Alliance with France.
1. First Continental Congress
2. Treaty of Alliance
3. Battle of Yorktown.
Unlike the Federalists, this political party favored an agricultural economy and more power for the states.
Who are the Democratic-Republicans?
This concept allowed voters in a territory to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Reconstruction amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S..
What is the 14th Amendment?