The measure to prevent one branch of government from becoming too strong.
What is checks and balances
100
The election of this president was called the "Revolution of 1800" because power had peacefully transferred to another party for the first time
Who is Thomas Jefferson
100
The pre-RR innovation was used as an economical method of shipping farm goods from the Western states and territories to Eastern markets
What is Canals
100
Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner are famous for this
What is unsuccessful slave revolts in the Southern states
100
This book was considered the most persuasive single instrument of antislavery propaganda
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
This was the first religious development to have an impact throughout colonial America.
What is the Great Awakening
200
This president's term was known as the "Era of Good Feeling"
Who is James Monroe
200
This Secretary of Treasury created the controversial Bank of the United States
Who is Alexander Hamilton
200
This party dissolved over the slavery issue
What is the Whigs
200
This compromise dealt with the admission of California as a free state, a tougher fugitive slave law, settling land disputes between Texas & New Mexico, and the end of the slave trade in the District of Columbia
What is The Compromise of 1850
300
Colonists began thinking themselves as Americans rather than English or British after this war.
What is the French and Indian War/7 Years War
300
The concerns of Western Americans that the Indian raids they suffered were being carried out with British encouragement was one catalyst to this war.
The War of 1812
300
This was the name given to the forced migration of the Cherokee tribe from the southern Appalachians to what is now Oklahoma
What is The Trail of Tears
300
Lincoln's cited this as his number one motivation for the Civil War
What is preserving the Union
300
This act reopened the intense sectional controversy over the question of slavery in the territories
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
400
This treaty eliminated the French from the American colonial frontier.
The Treaty of Paris (1763)
400
This naval engagement between the British and Americans of f the coast of Virginia led to the War of 1812.
What is the Chesapeake-Leopard Incident
400
This act proposed moving the Eastern tribes to the trans-Mississippi West
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
400
This was the overall strategic policy of the Union to destroy the Confederacy through a combination of constant pressure and slowly wearing down the South ability to wage war
What is The Anaconda Plan
400
His raid on Harper's Ferry convinced many Southerners that secession from the Union was the only way they could prevent the increasingly abolitionist North from interfering with slavery in the South
Who is John Brown
500
This constitutional compromise concerned representation in Congress
What is The Connecticut Compromise/Great Compromise
500
The international incident involved a French foreign minister's demand for a bribe before he would meet with American envoys
What is the XYZ Affair
500
This 1832 crisis involved states' rights to overrule or disallow any federal legislation they found unacceptable
What is the Nullification Crisis
500
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves only in these areas
What is areas still in rebellion in the South
500
This Supreme Court case held that no black slave could be a citizen of the United States