Colonial America
Sectionalism and Civil War
The Gilded Age
Supreme Court Decisions
Presidents
100
The approach of Great Britain toward the colonies for most of the pre-revolutionary period.
What is salutary neglect?
100
This divided the country between free and slave areas.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
100
The two terms used to describe successful entrepreneurs.
What were robber-barons and philanthropists?
100
The decision that is most widely viewed as the most important for the power of the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
Continued campaigning after being shot.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt as a Progressive of Bull Moose Party candidate?
200
A crucial event leading to the revolution that the colonists were able to use as effective propaganda.
What was the Boston Massacre?
200
This person published The Liberator and was also a women's rights advocate.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
200
The first big business in America.
What is Railroads?
200
This upheld the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066?
What is Korematsu v. United States?
200
Three Presidents most associated as having been military men.
Who were GW, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower?
300
Two examples of colonial movement toward self government.
What were the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses? Other examples may be allowed.
300
This general was replaced by Lincoln and later ran for President in 1864.
Who was George McClellan?
300
He exposed the corruption of Tamanny Hall.
Who is Thomas Nast with his cartoons of Boss Tweed?
300
This seemed to contradict the decision of Lochner v. New York.
What was Muller v. Oregon?
300
It was rumored that Henry Clay got this person elected President.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
400
This allowed the British to send convicted individuals to the American colonies.
What was the transportation Act?
400
The two events associated with this crazy abolitionist.
What were Bloody or Bleeding Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown?
400
He emerged as a controversial leader at the Pullman Strike.
Who was Eugene Debs?
400
The most obvious example of one decision overturning another.
What was Brown v. BOE of Topeka Kansas overturning Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
This President is credited with doing the most for the poor after leaving office.
Who is Jimmy Carter with Habitat for Humanity and work in Africa?
500
He defended Zenger in his trial which led to the principle of freedom of the press.
Who was Andrew Hamilton?
500
This Confederate General liked to chew on lemons and refused to fight on Sundays.
Who was Stonewall Jackson?
500
This proved inneffective in controlling monopolies.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
500
The qualifications for becoming a judge on the Supreme Court.
What is none?
500
The two Presidents elected without getting the most votes.
Who were Rutherford Hayes and George W. Bush?
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