Leaders of the Early Nation
The man who initiated the midnight judges on the last night of his presidency.
Who is John Adams?
The location at which Elizabeth Stanton delivered her speech called The Declaration of Sentiments.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
The party created in response to the large influx of immigrants to America.
Who are the Know-Nothing Party?
The act that forced Native Americans to assimilate into American culture.
What was the Dawes Severalty Act?
Doctrine claiming alliance to no one, created in the 1790s after the French Revolution.
What is the Neutrality Proclamation?
Thomas Jefferson's cousin who doubled as the man who established Judicial Review.
Who is John Marshall?
The social reform movement that sought to limit/ban the consumption of alcohol in the 1800s.
What is the temperance movement?
The first act by the government to prevent mass immigration to the west.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Given by Andrew Jackson, one of the first forced mass migrations of Native Americans.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Statement delivered after British began imperialism in South America, an empty threat to European powers from seeking territory in the Americas.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
Founded the Rhode Island colony after she was cast out of the Puritan Church for advocating for women's equality.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The newly converted Christians during the Second Great Awakening that believed everyone was capable of salvation.
Who were the New Light Revivalists?
The law that allowed the president to deport or imprison any immigrant who was seen as a threat.
What are the Alien Laws?
The defeat of the Shawnee chief the Prophet at the hands of William Henry Harrison to end the War of 1812.
What is the Battle of Tippecanoe?
The treaty between the United States and Spain which gave the United States the right to transport goods on the Mississippi River.
What was Pickney's Treaty?
Lost in the election of 1800 to Thomas Jefferson, was tried for treason, and fled the country.
Who is Aaron Burr?
The leader of the Second Great Awakening.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
The immigrant laborers that dug the tunnel through Donner Pass for the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who were the Chinese Laborers?
The Supreme Court case that declared a tribe was not a foreign country and must remain in the United States.
What was Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1832?
The British act that closed ports under French control to foreign shipping, including American ports, unless they stopped at a British port first.
What were the Orders in Council?
The leaders of the Corps of Discovery sent out by President Thomas Jefferson.
Who are Lewis and William Clark?
The transcendentalist commune founded by a group of intellectuals who emphasized living plainly while pursuing the lite of the mind. The commune burned to the ground in 1846.
What was the Brook Farm?
A secret organization of Irish miners that campaigned (sometimes violently) against poor working conditions in Pennsylvania mines.
Who were the Molly Maguires?
United States army killed the Ghost Dance tradition which spread to the Dakota Sioux.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
America urges Spain to sell Cuba for $120 million and if declined, then America would take Cuba by force.
What was the Ostend Manifesto?