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100

What political party did Andrew Jackson create?

Democratic Party

100

This geographical feature limited the 13 colonies to the eastern seaboard. The king forbid the colonist to go past this.

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

100
This is considered to be the first legislature in the English colonies in North America.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
100
An economic system characterized by minimal government intervention in business activities


What is the free enterprise system?

100

The president of the U.S after Lincoln was assassinated?

Who is Andrew Johnson

200

Present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah is known as the _______ ________

Mexican Cession

200

A farming system prevalent in the post-Civil War South where landowners allowed tenants to use their land in exchange for a share of the crops produced

sharecropping

200
This document was signed by the Pilgrims as an agreement to have self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
This invention led to the expansion of slavery and the plantation system.
What is the cotton gin?
200

Where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant thus ending the Civil War

Appomatox Courthouse 

300

This was established to help the newly freed slaves and poor whites following the Civil War

Freedmans Bureau


300
This was a renewed interest in religion that happened in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
What is the Great Awakening?
300

Guarantees the right to a fair and speedy  trial for those accused of crimes

6th Amendment 

300

The first political parties developed because of arguments between which two people

Alexander Hamilton and George Washington

300
This war ended with the Treaty of Ghent.
What is the War of 1812?
400

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.  Paul Revere and Ben Franklin used this to urge colonist to separate from Britain

Propaganda 

400

 The political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native-born or indigenous people over those of immigrants

Nativism

400

A political dispute in the United States in 1832-1833, primarily between South Carolina and the federal government, over the issue of tariffs

Nullification Crisis

400

This invention allowed unskilled labor to be used in factories and made manufacturing easier and cheaper.

What are interchangeable parts?

400
These essays were written to convince people to vote for ratification of the Constitution.
What are the "Federalist Papers?"
500

These colonies had rich, arable land, ideal for agriculture, leading to the region being nicknamed the "breadbasket" due to the large amounts of wheat, oats, and barley grown there.

Middle Colonies?

500
People who were loyal to Great Britain were called
Loyalist
500

This created the Fugitive Slave Act, and provided admission of California into the Union  as a free state

What is the Compromise of 1850?

500

This economic system called for Britain to accumulate as much wealth as possible and to establish colonies to sell goods to and get raw materials from. Colonist remained poor while Britain gained wealth

What is mercantilism?

500

The Supreme Court case that forbade states from enacting any legislation that would interfere with Congress's right to regulate commerce among the separate states 

Gibbons v Ogden 

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