This uprising of backwoods farmers in Massachusetts made political leaders to consider revising the AOC.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
100
James Madison added this to the Constitution to appease Anti-federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
This political party took control of the executive branch with Thomas Jefferson's victory in the election of 1800.
What is the Democratic-Republican party.
100
One of the first goals the U.S. had in the War of 1812 was to invade this country.
What is Canada, eh?
100
He was elected the sixth president as a result of the "Corrupt Bargain".
Who is John Quincy Adams?
200
The Great Compromise created a bicameral legislature under the Constitution and was a compromise between the plans of these two states.
What are Virginia and New Jersey?
200
The first Secretary of Treasury, his five point economic plan helped stabilize the economy under the Constitution.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
The only one of Alexander Hamilton's economic measures that Thomas Jefferson revoked.
What is the excise tax?
200
He developed the American System, which helped with the American economy and infrastructure.
Who is Henry Clay?
200
The name for Andrew Jackson's practice as president of naming friends and political allies to political positions.
What is the Spoils System?
300
These essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, were written to persuade reluctant states like New York to ratify the Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
300
This treaty prevented war between the U.S. and Great Britain, but did nothing to stop impressment or the British arming of Indians on the frontier.
What is Jay's Treaty?
300
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who established judicial review with his ruling in Marbury v. Madison.
Who is John Marshall?
300
The bombardment of Fort McHenry prompted this American to write "The Star Spangled Banner."
Who is Francis Scott Key?
300
The so called "Tariff of Abominations" led this state to practice nullification and threaten secession.
What is South Carolina?
400
This law, a rare success of the AOC, set rules for statehood and outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
400
Alexander Hamilton justified the constitutionality of the creation of a national bank by pointing to this part of the Constitution.
What is the 'elastic clause' or 'necessary and proper clause'?
400
Replacing the hated Embargo Act of 1807, this law reopened American trade to the world with the exception of Great Britain and France.
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
400
This proposed amendment would have outlawed the importation of slaves to Missouri and called for gradual emancipation of existing slaves, but was voted down by southern states and replaced by the Missouri Compromise. (Hint: It's a name, not a number)
What is the Tallmadge amendment?
400
President of the Bank of the United States and nemesis of Andrew Jackson.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
500
This state has the oldest functioning state constitution in the country, having been ratified by the citizens of the state in 1780.
What is Massachusetts?
500
These two men were behind the creation of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which sought to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts based on the argument that they violated the Constitution.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?
500
An uprising led by ex-slave Toussaint L'Ouverture (along with malaria probz) on this Caribbean island helped convince Napoleon that America was not worth the trouble and played a large part in his decision to sell Louisiana to the U.S.
What is Santo Domingo? (Haiti also acceptable)
500
In the Missouri Compromise, slavery was outlawed in all newly formed states north of this line of latitude in the Louisiana territory.
What is the 36°, 30' line?
500
Andrew Jackson recognized this country's new found independence just one day before his presidency ended.