Foundations of Independence
Which phrase summarized colonists’ anger at being taxed by a government across the ocean?
No Taxation Without Representation
George Washington’s Farewell Address warned the nation to avoid what?
What are foreign alliances and political divisions?
What 1830 law led to the Trail of Tears and forced Native Americans west?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Which amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship, and gave voting rights to African Americans?
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
What term describes hostility toward foreign-born people and preference for native-born citizens?
What is Nativism?
What 1765 statement declared that only colonial legislatures could tax colonists, inspiring resistance to Parliment?
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
What 1798 laws limited free speech and targeted immigrants during Adams’ presidency?
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
What phrase by Abraham Lincoln warned that the Union could not endure “half slave and half free”?
What is “A house divided cannot stand”?
What laws reversed Reconstruction progress and legalized segregation? (hint- James black bird)
What are the Jim Crow laws?
What was the main goal of labor unions during the Gilded Age?
What is to improve wages and working conditions?
The Articles of Confederation were designed mainly to prevent what problem that existed under British rule?
What is the abuse of power by a strong central government?
How did Hamilton’s National Bank and Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase both demonstrate the flexibility of the Constitution?
They showed implied powers could be used to strengthen the nation.
What event confirmed the supremacy of the federal government over the states?
What is the Union victory in The Civil War
Which 19th-century reform movement was inspired by the Second Great Awakening?
What is the social reform movement (abolition, temperance, women’s rights)?
What was the major effect of Populist and Progressive movements on U.S. politics?
Their reforms were later adopted by major parties.
Shays’ Rebellion revealed the weaknesses of what early American system of government?
What is the AOC
What issue did the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the Nullification Crisis both address?
What is states’ rights to reject federal laws?
What was the primary purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?
To encourage western settlement through land ownership.
What was George Washington’s main concern about “Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western” divisions?
What is sectionalism threatening national unity?
According to Booker T. Washington, what was the “little green ballot”?
What is money and economic independence?
Which founding principle of the Declaration of Independence justified citizens revising or abolishing a government that denied basic rights?
What is the right to alter or abolish an unjust government?
What foreign policy document declared that the American continents were closed to future European colonization?
What is the Monroe Doctrine
What did W.E.B. DuBois argue education should produce among African Americans?
Leaders of thought and culture (the Talented Tenth).
Which event demonstrated that the federal government could enforce its laws—like Washington’s response in 1794?
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Which president’s “Square Deal” used federal power to control monopolies and protect consumers?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?