Unit 1: Exploration
This is the name for a Spanish explorer/leader that was seeking gold, riches, and resources for Spain.
What is a Conquistador?
This was the first successful English Colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
What is Common Sense?
The Constitution outlines a bicameral legislature consisting of these two bodies.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Kentucky and Virginia cancelled the Alien and Sedition Acts within their state. What is another term that is synonymous with cancel?
What is nullify or nullifed?
Andrew Jackson introduced this bill in 1830 that led to the forced removal of Native Americans from east of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands
What is the Indian Removal Act
What was the name of the treaty that was signed in 1819 by John Quincy Adams that allowed Florida to be admitted into the union in 1845 while also helping to define the border between the U.S. and Mexico?
What was the Adams - Onis Treaty
Introduced by Stephen Douglas, this was the belief that people should have the right to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed in the new territories?
What is Popular Sovereignty
This newspaper, written by William Lloyd Garrison, was the most widely circulated anti - slavery newspaper throughout the Civil War.
What is the Liberator?
This was the year that the Reconstruction Era started.
What is 1865?
This economic system spanned the 16th-18th century when countries attempted to accumulate wealth through trade and expansion.
What is mercantilism?
Accusations of witchcraft famously took this New England colonial city by storm.
What is Salem?
Who is George Washington?
The Constitution outlines these 3 branches of government.
What is the legislative, executive and judicial branch?
This event took place in France when U.S. delegates were sent there by John Adams to negotiate a peace treaty with France - this event became known as the ___________ affair.
What is the XYZ Affair
What five Native American tribes were affected by the Indian Removal Act?
Who were the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole.
This treaty, signed in 1803, doubled the size of the U.S. and opened up the U.S. to westward expansion.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Another term that means the separation of people based on race and was commonly practiced in northern cities.
What is segregation?
This executive order was put into place by President Lincoln and declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory were to be freed beginning on January 1st, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What term describes the official charging of a person with "high crimes and misdemeanors" or extreme misconduct while in office?
What is Impeach/Impeachment
This is the seasonal movement of animals from one region to another.
What is Migration?
William Penn established this original colony.
What is Pennsylvania?
The first shots of the American Revolution were fired here.
What were Lexington & Concord?
The constitution outlines how to make changes. These changes in the Constitution are known as.
What are amendments
What is another name for a war that has not been declared?
What is a Quasi War
What is the idea of spreading political power to the people and ensuring majority rule as well as supporting the "Common Man."
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
What was the name of the doctrine, mostly written by John Quincy Adams, that established the U.S. foreign policy stating that the U.S. would remain neutral in all European Wars/Affairs
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
Henry Clay introduced this compromise in 1820 that established an imaginary line at 36 degrees 30 to establish the boundary line between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Robert E. Lee surrendered to what Union General at Appomottax Court House?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
Another name for the laws passed by Southern states to restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What are the Black Codes
Sir Francis Drake was a famous explorer for this island nation.
What is England?
This major cash crop helped many of the Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco?
This is the last major battle of the American Revolution.
What is Yorktown?
What is the term that stands for the official approval of a document and/or to pass an amendment?
What is ratify or ratifying
What was the name of the court case that established judicial review ruling that section 13 of the Judiciary Act was unconstitutional?
What was Marbury vs. Madison 1803?
What was the policy called whereby one would reward the people that supported you throughout the election process?
What was the name of the Act that was established in 1862 that offered up to 160 acres of land to settlers if they were willing to build a home on the land and farm the land within a 5 year time period?
What was the Homestead Act
Which act, passed by Congress in1854, repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their boundaries.
What is the Kansas - Nebraska Act?
Daily Double!!
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th, 1865 in this theatre located in Washington D.C.
What is Ford's Theatre?
Another name for the individuals who advocated for the end of slavery
Who are abolitionists?
This explorer for Spain is credited with being the first to reach Florida.
This English colony mysteriously disappeared and historians still debate what ultimately happened.
What is Roanoke?
The Intolerable Acts were in response to what action by colonists?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Daily Double!!
What is the Supremacy Clause?
What was term used to describe the stopping of American ships by the British whereby the British soldiers forced American sailors into the British Navy?
Impressment
What were the name of the banks that were set up by Andrew Jackson where the Federal Government would take surplus funds and put them in state banks because he felt they were more secure?
What were pet banks?
What was the 19th Century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law/Act
The Southern States that seceded from the union ended up forming a confederation led by President Jefferson Davis.
What were the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy?
This agency was established to assist newly freed slaves with education, employment, and basic necessitites during the Reconstruction Period