Colonization-Revolution
What group of women protested British goods by peacefully weaving cloth in boycott of British cloth due to the Townsend Act?
Daughters of Liberty
American intellectual, inventor, and politician was sent to France to ask for military aid and a loan during the American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin
Did the Articles of Confederation give more power to the federal or state government?
State
The idea that America was destined to move west until the nation covered the continent of North America from the Atlantic to Pacific coasts was called?
Manifest Destiny
The Battle of Vicksburg was over control of what important American river being used to move supplies?
Mississippi
This Southern colony's purpose was to make money for England first by trying to find gold but later by growing the cash crop tobacco.
Virginia
What country helped the Americans to win the battle of Yorktown by defeating the British Navy and preventing the arrival of reinforcements by river or sea?
France
Aside from doubling the size of the US, the Louisiana Purchase by Jefferson had what effect on the power of the presidency by his doing something the Constitution never said he could do?
expanded it
The fear of what newly elected president abolishing slavery lead tot he outbreak of the Civil War?
Lincoln
Was Congressional or Presidential Reconstruction plans more concerned with punishing the South for the Civil War?
Congressional
How was African Culture first introduced into the Americas?
Transatlantic Slave Trade
New taxes meant to pay for the British costs for defending their colonial regions and greater control over those regions began primarily after which war?(Right before the Revolution)
French and Indian War
Which of these was not a- precedent set by George Washington?
-The title of Mr President
-Stepping down after two terms
-A yearly ball thrown in his honor
yearly ball
This compromise led to to the establishment of Maine and Missouri as states in hopes of maintaining a balance between slave and free states and preventing a civil war.
Missouri Compromise
Westward expansion following the Civil War mostly hurt what group?
Native Americans
A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies instead of imports is called?
Mercantilism
During the winter of 1777 and 1778 George Washington had to hold his army together while encamped and starving where?
Valley Forge
The Monroe Doctrine concerned itself with telling what continent to stay out of affairs in the Americas so we could have greater influence over Latin America?
Europe
Which side had a distinct advantage wen it came to food production, manpower, money, and industrial output going into the Civil War?
North
Which two immigrant groups were heavily involved with the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Irish and Chinese
What wealthy friend of the king wanted a safe place for Quakers to live? Set up the colony of Pennsylvania.
William Penn
Which large river set an early western boundary of the US?
Mississippi River
The temperance movement concerned itself mostly with the limiting of which practice?
drinking alcohol
Lincoln's use of the phrase "malice towards none but Charity for all" in his second innaugural speech showed he wanted what to happen at the end of the Civil War?
The states should unify peacefully
Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle led to Progressive improvements to what American industry?
Meat packing/inspection