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100
This Senator drafted the Freeport Doctrine which, amongst other issues, suggested new territories in the West determine whether they would be slave or free by popular sovereignty.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
100
This territory was dubbed as "bleeding" after pro-slavery officials attacked the free-state strong-hold of Lawrence and 3 days later, religious abolitionist John Brown murdered and mutilated 5 proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek.
What was Kansas?
100
This war was between Great Britain/colonists and the French Canadians/Indian allies-over territory in North America. The war ended when the Iroquois decided to enter the war on the side of the British/colonists giving them a strategic advantage.
What was the 7 Years War or the French and Indian War?
100
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted this declaration of women's rights at the Seneca Falls Convention that was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
100
This political party formed just prior to the Civil War and included many of the Know-Nothings, anti-slavery Whigs and anti-slavery Democrats.
What is the Republican Party?
200
This president issued the most famous diplomatic statement in early U.S. History which stated that Central and Latin America were no longer open to further European colonization. His doctrine has been cited several times throughout U.S. history.
Who was James Monroe? (Monroe Doctrine)
200
This was the site of the last big battle of the Civil War that lasted for 3 days and resulted in tens of thousands of casualties and a critical loss for Lee and the Confederates.
What was Gettysburg?
200
This 2 year war ended with the Treaty of Ghent which essentially restored pre-war conditions between the U.S. and Great Britain.
What was the War of 1812?
200
This was an exchange or introduction of new food, diseases and animals between the Old World and the New World that included horses, small pox and potatoes.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
200
This statement preceded the 13th amendment and announced the freedom of all slaves in the Union except for the slaves in border slave states who had remained loyal to the Union.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This was one of the first political parties that emerged after the revolution-comprised of supporters who favored a strong central government, the Alien and Sedition Acts, a large army and closer ties to Great Britain.
Who were the Federalists?
300
This was where the Continental Army experienced a harsh winter but were quickly whipped into shape by French General von Steuben who showed them how to fight and keep clean.
What was Valley Forge?
300
This war occurred just prior to the Civil War and resulted in the acquisition of 1/2 million square miles of land for the United States which would later be added to by the Gadsden Purchase and provide a path for the transcontinental railroad.
What was the Mexican War?
300
This religious group called for further reform of the Anglican Church to rid it of corruption and settled colonies such as Plymouth and Massachusetts.
What were the Puritans?
300
These four anti-immigrant laws, passed by Federalists in 1798, were partially intended to weaken the Republican party who somewhat relied on the support of immigrants. The worst of these four laws even made it illegal for anyone to say or print material that was "false, scandalous and malicious," against the government.
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
400
This wealthy young planter waged a battle against Indians that quickly turned into a battle between colonists and colonial authorities when he (the young planter), refused to heed Governor William Berkeley's order to cease fighting (colonial era-late 1600s).
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
400
This was the first successfully colony in the United States mostly due to the cultivation of tobacco by John Rolfe.
What was Jamestown?
400
This "war" occurred after the Trail of Tears when 500 men, women and children of the Suak and Fox tribes were murdered by federal troops trying to cross the Mississippi River to safety.
What was Black Hawk's War.
400
Endorsed by such notable authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this idea suggests that human emotion can grasp a truer sense of reality than the senses can.
What is transcendenatlism?
400
These articles were drafted during the Revolution and created a loose confederation of states that lacked the power to tax or raise an army.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
500
Spanish imperialist Hernan Cortes destroyed this empire in Mexico, with conquest and disease, by 1521.
What was the Aztec Empire?
500
This enormous new space was where the Second Great Awakening occurred which inspired many settlers with fiery evangelical sermons and allowed women and African Americans some limited power and freedom.
What was the frontier?
500
This was one of the first battles of the Revolution that could be considered an American (rebel) victory because the Americans were able to shoot almost 300 British soldiers, from the woods, as the redcoats retreated to Boston.
What was Concord? (Lexington-shot heard 'round the world)
500
This was the idea that Americans maintained the god-given right and duty to spread their ideas about liberty and democracy-westward.
What was manifest destiny?
500
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed these repressive measures that included the closure of Boston ports until the destroyed tea was paid for and a forced limitation of town meetings without the governor's approval. Separately, these acts were referred to as The Quebec Act and the Coercive Acts.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
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