Aftermath of Revolution
Late 18th and 19th c. U.S. society
Reform
Sectionalism
Random Surprises
100
To address the deficiencies in the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, the crises of the 1870s, and Shay's Rebellion
What were the principle reasons for the calling of the Annapolis Convention and then the CONSTITUTIONAL CONGRESS?
100
DAILY DOUBLE - you may bet either 100 or 200 The American System of Economics
What is the economic system most closely associated with Henry Clay, which intended to build the commercial infrastructure of the U.S. through the imposition of tariffs which would be used to help pay for the building of roads and canals among other infrastructural necessities?
100
He demanded immediate emancipation
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
100
It was an attempt to impact elections on slavery, which were to be decided by popular sovereignty
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act which held that the question of slavery in the Kansas territory would be decided through the process of a state vote?
100
The first seven words of the Declaration of Independence
What are "When in the course of human events...?"
200
DAILY DOUBLE - You may be either 200 or 400 It was the idea within the idea of REPUBLICANISM that the CULTIVATION of habits by which it is believed the community will thrive, the habits include, Independence, self-sufficiency, self-sacrifice and a lack of self-interest.
What was the idea of PUBLIC VIRTUE as it was understood in early republic?
200
It was the way in which Morse's invention vindicated Clay's system.
What is Federal financing through tariff funds of Samuel F. B. Morse’s development of the telegraph?
200
It was on of the primary causes of the epidemics that swept through early nineteenth-century American cities
What was a lack of sanitation?
200
After the Compromise became law, inhabitants of the former Mexican lands could vote to determine if it should become a slave state or a free state.
What is the way in which popular sovereignty would determine the slave or non-slave status of territories gain in the Mexican War as a result of the passing of the Compromise of 1850?
200
DAILY DOUBLE - you may bet either 200 or 400. It was the creation of a national currency, authorized in February 1862, it was a major step toward the centralization of economic power in the hands of the federal government
What was the goal of the Legal Tender Act of 1862?
300
They are the first 15 words of the U.S. Constitution
What are "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union...?"
300
It is one of the main reasons why Cyrus McCormick’s reaper the most remarkable 19th century U.S. innovation in commercial agriculture.
What is that Reapers reduced a farmer’s need for manpower, increasing agricultural productivity?
300
DAILY DOUBLE - You may bet either 300 or 600 It was the idea held by evangelicals such as Charles G. Finney during the Second Great Awakening that people’s failings were a consequence of their environments rather than personal moral failures and thus people could be reformed.
What is the evangelical shift toward a belief in human goodness spark the growth of antebellum reform movements?
300
It was the fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state
What is one reason why The Republic of Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States?
300
They were were Democrats who favored a negotiated peace with the South
Who Copperheads?
400
It was one of the main reasons that the South increasingly objected to U.S. tariff policy from 1816 onward and in particular the tariff of 1828.
What was a high tariff on manufactured goods protected northern industry but did little to protect southern economic interests?
400
It was the name given to the mid-nineteenth century religious revival movement in the U.s. and he was one of its main proponents.
What is The Great Awakening and who was Charles G. Finney?
400
It was was a consequence of the emergence of female social reformers during the antebellum period. women began to assert themselves more politically
What was that women began to assert themselves more politically?
400
It was the party which held the position that slavery could not be permitted in the territories
What was the Liberty Party?
400
It was one of the advantages enjoyed by the North at the outset of the Civil War.
What was a superior industrial capacity?
500
DAILY DOUBLE You may bet 500 pts 1000 pts They were the main features or elements of The Great Compromise
What are A BICAMERAL Congress composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives elected PROPORTIONAL to population. The Senate would be elected on the basis of equal representation?
500
He was an English-trained apprentice who brought the secrets of British textile machinery to America in 1789.
Who was Samuel Slater?
500
They gave public abolition speeches in front of audiences of men and women for which they were dispargaed
Who were the Grimké sisters?
500
It prioritized sectional politics over party politics and was an attachment to a military funding bill that attempted to prevent the further spread of slavery into territories the U.s. might acquire through its involvement in the Mexican War.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
500
In it he promoted a vision of a just and lasting peace
What is one of the most notable elements of Lincoln's second inaugural address?
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