Foundational Documents and Events in American History

Match the following

• Established religious freedom

• Mayflower Compact

• Limited the power of the king

• English Bill of Rights

• A foundational document for self-governance

• Magna Carta

• Protected the rights of Parliament

• Maryland Toleration Act

• First legislative assembly in America

• Virginia House of Burgesses

Match the following

• Restricted westward expansion

• Coercive Acts

• Tax on paper goods

• French and Indian War

• Colonial protest against taxation

• Proclamation 1763

• Shut down Boston Harbor

• Boston Tea Party

• 1757

• Stamp Act

This rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Shays Rebellion

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Chapmans Rebellion

Match the following

• Layers of Gov't

• Federalism

• Opposed the ratification of the Constitution

• Marbury v Madison

• Established judicial review

• Federalist Papers

• Supported a strong central government

• Anti-Federalists

• In support of the Constitution

• Federalists

Generally, where is the Ohio River Valley

What area of land did we win during the Texas/Mexican War?

This group wrote a series of papers attempting to convince Americans NOT to ratify the Constitution

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Match the following

• Legislation that made it a crime to criticize the government

• Spoils System

• Order that freed slaves in Confederate states

• Kentucky and Virginia Resolution

• Practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs

• Alien and Sedition Act

• Political statements asserting states' rights

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Proposed by Hamilton

• National Bank