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100
The "New Light" preacher that is credited with starting the Great Awakening and encouraged parishioners to absolve their sins and pay penance by praying for salvation.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
100
Protest event in response to the Tea Act. Tea was dumped in the Boston Harbor, resulting in the closing of the Harbor through the Coercive Acts until the Tea was paid for. Also revoked charter of the colony of Massachusetts.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
Pamphlet that brought the oppression of Britain to the mainstream.
What is Common Sense?
100
System where supporters of Andrew Jackson's campaign would be appointed to government positions, which some felt that this "bred corruption and tainted the political process".
What is the spoils system?
100
Delegates sent to Paris were demanded to give a bribe and several other "loans" just for the opportunity to speak with French officials. This was a cause for the "Quasi War".
What is the XYZ affair?
200
English immigrant who borrowed John Locke's natural rights philosophy to justify that the citizens were "obligated" to rebel against the oppression of Britain in his pamphlet titled Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
The battle that turned the tide of the American Revolution and gained the support of the French backing for the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
200
Document signed by King George III in 1763 that barred American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
The political party, originally known as the National Republicans and supported by Henry Clay, that mirrored the long-lost platform of the old Federalist party, and was specifically founded to oppose Andrew Jackson.
What is the Whig Party?
200
Supreme Court ruling that said the 36' 30' provision of the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that all African Americans were not citizens, making them ineligible to sue in federal court.
What is the supreme court case Dred Scott v. Sanford?
300
Inventor that helped Albany Congress construct the Albany Plan of Union, which called for a confederation of colonies to provide for defense from attack by European and native foes during the French and Indian War.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
Conflict that took place as a result of the tax which was imposed on the whiskey backwoods farmers distilled to supplement their incomes.
What is Whiskey Rebellion?
300
Ordinance that required new townships to set aside a parcel of land for public education and stipulated that the sale of public lands would be used to pay off the national debt. Future settlement would be organized, unlike the unorganized South.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
300
The group that was part of the movement "against the influx" of Irish and German immigrants. This group was made of Anglo-Americans that believed that they were the only really true "Americans", and rallied against the rights of those who had foreign blood.
What are the nativists?
300
Amendment that "calls for the abolishment of slavery".
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
"Father of the Constitution" who also wrote a third of the Federalist papers. Helped organize the Democratic-Republican Party. 4th President. Also helped organize another convention in Philadelphia.
Who is James Madison?
400
Conflict that occurred when the Ottawans launched an attack on the new colonial settlements from the Great Lakes region (from Michigan) all the way to Virginia. British forces were sent to deal with the conflict, and it finally ended after 18 months of fighting.
What is Pontaic's Rebellion?
400
Ordinance that established guidelines for attaining statehood (territories with at least 60k people could apply for statehood; if accepted by Congress, the new state would have equal status with other states). Also, this ordinance banned slavery north of the Ohio River, guaranteeing future free states in the Midwest.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
400
The group that embodied the Romantic spirit of the U.S. by "spurning materialism and embracing self-reliance".
What are the transcendentalists?
400
Act passed by Congress during last days of Jefferson presidency. Allowed the U.S. to trade with foreign nations except Britain and Frace.
What is the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809?
500
Economic genius that supported the B.U.S. ; also created the Federalist Party.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
Uprising of Massachusetts farmers that demanded restitution and tax relief. Eventually the rebels took control of the state arsenal, but was put down by the Massachusetts militia.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
500
Agreement that gave nonconverted Puritans partial membership in the Continental Church. (Many young Puritans were not full members, thus their children were not getting baptized -> Church was losing membership.)
What is the Halfway Covenant?
500
This group was also known as the Know-Nothing Party, and was an extreme wing of the nativist movement. The group oppose immigration and the election of Roman Catholics to political office, among other things.
What is the American Party?
500
The bill that Andrew Jackson encouraged Congress to pass that gave the president the power to use military force to collect tariffs if the need arose.
What is the Force Bill?
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