The New World and a New Nation
Economics
War and Reconstruction
People
Miscellaneous
100
religious group that populated the Massachusetts Bay Colony
What is Puritans?
100
a tax placed on imports, usually used to protect domestic production.
What is tariff?
100
His "March to Atlanta" destroyed everything in its path, destroying Southern resistance.
What is Sherman?
100
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
What is Harriett Beecher Stowe?
100
Foreign policy pledging to keep our involvement confined to the Western Hemisphere only.
What is Monroe Doctrine?
200
Term for a worker who was bound to an employer for a period of years, then free to seek his own way in life.
What is indentured servant?
200
Printing more money usually leads to what economic phenomenon?
What is inflation?
200
Lincoln's opponent in the senatorial election of 1858.
What is Douglas?
200
Presidency who resolved the Barbary Pirate problem.
What is Jefferson?
200
Frenchman who wrote "Democracy in America"
What is Alexis de Tocqueville?
300
War that ended it 1763; the debt it incurred was one of the factors that prompted colonial unrest.
What is French and Indian War?
300
First Secretary of the Treasury and author of a plan to stabilize the young American economy.
What is Alexander Hamilton?
300
transcendentalist who went to jail for not paying his taxes - which indirectly were going to support slavery.
What is Henry David Thoreau?
300
North Carolina politician who sparked the Nullification Crisis.
What is Calhoun?
300
Adams' first attempt to negotiate favorable terms with France, it became an embarrassment to his administration.
What is the XYZ Affair?
400
In the Glorious Revolution, these two restored a rule of law to the throne of England.
What is William and Mary?
400
Enacted by Jackson to stabilize inflation, this called for loans to be repaid in coin only.
What is the Specie Circular?
400
Constitution which would have made Kansas a slave state, if left in its original form.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
400
Three of the tribes that were moved along the "Trail of Tears"
What is Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Seminole?
400
Governor of Texas, put out of office when he opposed secession.
What is Sam Houston?
500
He wrote "These are the times that try men's souls."
What is Thomas Paine?
500
Author of the "invisible hand" theory of economics
What is Adam Smith?
500
One of Lincoln's generals in chief, very indecisive and slow in taking action, he ran for president in 1864.
What is McClellan?
500
Director of the Bank of the United States when its charter was not renewed.
What is Nicholas Biddle?
500
The Credit Mobilier Scandal occurred during his presidency.
What is Grant?
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