| 1787 | | _________________-was the believe that the United States had a divinely inspired mission to expand and to spread democracy throughout North America. |
| House of Burgesses | | The Constitutional Convention was held in what year? _____ |
| Connecticu | | The group that staged protests against the Stamp Act was the ____________________ |
| Rocky | | Fundamental Orders of ______________ was a constitution that some Puritan colonists wrote to govern themselves |
| English Bill of Rights | | The _____________Ordinance set a pattern for the orderly growth in the Northwest Territory and the rest of the United States. |
| Farming | | What term was used to describe a colonist who favored the British rule? |
| State | | To defeat the French Benjamin Franklin, suggested that the colonies band together in the first formal proposal to unite the colonies called The_____________________ of Union |
| King George III | | The voyage that carried captured Africans to the Americas for use as slaves was known as the________________ |
| Nullification | | The King of England during the American revolution was ________________. |
| Yorktown | | Due to the hostilities the British issued the ________________________,of 1763 which forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians making the colonist angry. |
| Three Fifths | | __________________ is considered as the Father of the Constitution. |
| Constitution | | The forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from there land. ____________ |
| Patriot | | A republic, is where the people choose _______________to govern them. |
| Eli Whitney | | Refusal or rejection by a U.S. state to recognize a federal law. _________________ |
| Federalism | | The Treaty of Paris 1763 ended the ________________ War. |
| Northwest | | The Articles of _______________created our first national government. |
| Francis Scott Key | | The purpose of the Quartering Act was to require the colonies to provide _________and supplies for British soldiers. |
| Loyalist | | ___________Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts involved mostly small farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes. |
| Legislative | | The name given to a trading route with three stops that included the shipping of African Slaves was called The ______________ trade route. |
| Atlantic | | _______________________was a French aristocrat who played a leading role in the American Revolution. |
| Saratoga | | The first representative assembly in the American colonies was known as the____________________________ |
| Antifederalists | | The winter at ___________________came to stand for the great hardships that Americans endured in the Revolutionary War. |
| Lexington and Concord | | The branch of government that enforces the laws is the___________. |
| Proclamation | | The turning point in the American Revolution War, was the victory at_____________. |
| Columbian | | Benjamin Franklin convinced what country to lend military support to the Continental army during the American Revolution? |
| Amerigo Vespucci | | .____________________is a system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states. |
| Overseers | | The Battle of _______________made General Andrew Jackson a national hero. |
| Philadelphia | | Economic activity in the New England colonies relied heavily on trade in part because a cold climate and poor soil made _________unprofitable |
| Monroe Doctrine | | Last major battle of the American Revolution. _________ |
| Mercantilism | | Became famous for spreading news of the British troop's movements._____________ |
| France | | Thomas Paine published a pamphlet in order to convince Americans that a break with Britain was necessary. __________________ |
| Middle Passage | | The branch of government that interprets the laws is the _________. |
| James Madison | | Was given the commanding general of the Continental Army. ___________________. |
| Common Sense | | Required the colonists to pay tax on all legal documents such as wills, contracts, and diplomas. _______________ |
| Sons of Liberty | | A colonist killed in the Boston Massacre was a sailor of African and Native American ancestry. _______________ |
| Boston Massacre | | Was assigned by The Continental Congress to write the Declaration of Independence. _________________ |
| Confederation | | The Americas received their name from a German mapmaker who named the continent after |
| Executive | | The __________________stated that The United States would not allow further European colonization in the Western Hemisphere. |
| Valley Forge | | People who opposed the Constitution were called ___________. |
| Mayflower Compact | | In 1689 The ____________________established that the government was to be based on laws made by Parliament, not on the desires of a ruler |
| Lafayette | | The agreement written by the Pilgrims that provided for self-government was called the_____________________ |
| French and Indian War | | The movement of plants, animals, and diseases between hemispheres is the_______________ Exchange |
| Albany Plan | | Freedom of Religion is guaranteed by the _______ Constitutional Amendment. |
| Manifest Destiny | | The branch of government that makes the laws is the___________. |
| Judiciary | | The 13 original colonies were primarily located along the______________ Ocean. |
| Thomas Jefferson | | The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called the ________________. |
| Crispus Attucks | | The financial drain due to the British economic system of ______________ was one of the main causes of the Revolution. |
| Housing | | New England had long winters and______________ soil |
| Magna Carta | | Where was The Constitutional Convention held? |
| Representatives | | The ________governments had the most power under the Articles of Confederation. |
| Paul Revere | | On large Southern plantations, slaves toiled in groups of about 20 to 25 under the supervision of________________ |
| First | | The first step toward guaranteeing the rights of Englishmen came in 1215 with the signing of the______________. |
| Shays | | The __________________Compromise addressed how slaves would be counted for taxes and representation. |
| Stamp Act | | The weakness of the Articles of Confederation led to the writing of the U.S. ______________________. |
| Bill of Rights | | What term was used to describe a colonist who resisted the British rule? |
| Treaty of Ghent | | Where were the first battles of the American revolutionary War? |
| Trail of Tears | | The treaty that ended the War of 1812 was the _____________. |
| Triangular | | The author of the poem that in 1931 became the national anthem of the United States was____________________. |
| New Orleans | | In 1770, an incident called the ____________________ was used as propaganda to arouse the colonists' resistance to British authority. |
| George Washington | | Who invented interchangeable parts? |
