Constiution
Road to the Civil War
Antebellum
Nationalism and Sectionalism
Presidents
100
List eh 5 rights protected under the first amendment.
What is speech, religion, press, protest, and peaceful assembly
100
What event in 1849 prompted mass migrations west?
What is the California Gold Rush
100
What was the term used to identify period of renewed interest in Religion
What is The Second Great Awakening
100
Describe the economic differences between the north and the south.
What is Northern economy is based upon industry and the production of goods. Southern economy is based upon agriculture and raw or natural materials.
100
Which President doubled the size of the country with the Louisiana Purchase?
What is Thomas Jefferson
200
True or False-- The Executive branch has the power to make laws
What is False. Only Congress has the power to make new laws.
200
What was the major EFFECT to John Brown's failed attack at Harper's Ferry?
What is The Confederate Army was created
200
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a philosophical leader of which antebellum reform?
What is Transcendentalism
200
Which section of the country would MOST benefit from a protective tariff?
What is the North, because they are the ones producing American goods for sale to the rest of the country.
200
Why was Jackson considered the first modern President?
He used the veto, increased the power of the president, campaigned during his election, and was the first President elected by the masses
300
What does the 10th Amendment say?
What is Rights not specifically delegated to the federal government in the Constitution are reserved for the states to decide.
300
List the 3 aspects to the Compromise of 1850
What is California was admitted to the Union as a free state, popular sovereignty would determine slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico, Strict fugitive slave laws would be put in place
300
List 3 types of social reform during this time period
What is Education, prisons, hospitals, religion, temperance, women's rights
300
What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine and how did it exemplify Nationalism?
It kept Europe from interfering with the Western Hemisphere and asserted American dominance on an international level.
300
This President's election prompted the secession of 11 Southern states
Who is Lincoln
400
What was the ruling on the Gibbons v. Ogden case?
What is Only Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce. (AKA they are the only ones who can make laws about trade or business between states)
400
What CAUSED violence to erupt giving the Kansas-territory the nickname "Bleeding Kansas"?
What is Popular sovereignty. Elections to determine the issue of slavery in Kansas were being held. Pro and Anti slavery Americans from other states poured into Kansas to illegally vote in the election. After the votes were counted, Kansas would become a SLAVE state. Violence soon erupted between people who were for and those against slavery.
400
Give a reason supporting the temperance movement.
What is social problems such as domestic violence, were often attributed to drinking alcohol. Getting rid of alcohol would be a way to improve upon oneself.
400
Describe manifest destiny. Does this exemplify nationalism or sectionalism?
What is The idea that only Americans should control the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This idea promotes westward expansion and NATIONALISM
400
President Washington created a precedent by creating a group of advisers. What were they called and who were they?
What is the cabinet. Jefferson was secretary of State, Hamilton was secretary of Treasury, Knox was secretary of war
500
What was the outcome of the Dred Scott case? What reasoning did the Supreme Court give to justify slavery?
What is Dred Scott was ruled a slave, and was not granted his freedom. The court justified this result by stating that slaves are property, and that since the right to property is protected in the Bill of Rights, no law can be made to limit where a white man can take their property (slaves). It also says that any law congress makes trying to limit or abolish slavery would be unconstitutional. (AKA the Missouri Compromise)
500
Which states allowed slavery but did not join the Confederacy after the election of President Lincoln?
What is Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky
500
What is the main value that emerged from revivalism?
Man can improve himself, and that through achieving perfection he will get salvation.
500
Give an example of how the first Bank of the United States promoted both nationalism and sectionalism
Nationalism: it created a means fix the national economy following the revolutionary wary. Sectionalism: It unfairly helped out the north, who hadn't paid their debts, more than the south, who had been responsible and paid their bonds off already.
500
What was the main effect of the XZY affair? Why was it ironic that it happened under President John Adams??
What is The XYZ affair resulted in the Alien and Sedition acts. These acts limited the freedom of speech against the government, and allowed for people to be thrown in jail for speaking against the government. This violated free speech, which is ironic because Adams vowed to uphold the Constitution as President, but he actually did the opposite
M
e
n
u