Aftermath of Revolution
Late 18th and 19th c. U.S. society
Reform
Sectionalism
Random Surprises
100
some of the reasons for which it was called were : to address the deficiencies in the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION to address generally the economic problems of the 1870s to address specifically the problems and conditions that led to 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 it is the name of the 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.
What is the American System of Economics?
100
He demanded immediate emancipation
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
100
after the passing of the Act, it was an attempt to impact elections on slavery, which were to be decided by popular sovereignty, and its ugly result.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the flooding into Kansas of both pro and anti slavery supporters, and the resulting violence known as "bleeding Kansas?"
100
George Washington, Like Charles turnip Townsend also practiced it
What is four crop rotation?
200
DAILY DOUBLE - You may be either 200 or 400 In Republicanism, they are the habits by which it is believed the community will thrive and it is the name given to the quality one is said to possess when one expresses those habits.
What are Independence, self-sufficiency, self-sacrifice and a lack of self-interest and what is the idea of public virtue?
200
It was the way in which Morse's invention of the telegraph vindicated Clay's system.
What is the Federal government's financing of Samuel F. B. Morse’s development of the telegraph through tariff funds?
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
It was the way in which it was agreed that popular sovereignty would determine the slave or non-slave status of territories gained in the Mexican War.
What is that after the Compromise of 1850 became law, inhabitants of the former Mexican lands could vote to determine if the lands of their habitation should become a slave state or a free state.
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 and they are the first 7 words of the Declaration of Independence
What are "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..." and "when in the course of human events...?"
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 and increased agricultural productivity?
300
DAILY DOUBLE - You may bet either 300 or 600 It was the idea within the preaching of the Second Great Awakening that can be said to be at the center of the various reform movements that sprang up in its wake such as the Temperance movement and the movement for universal public education of children
What is the evangelical shift toward a belief in human goodness and thus the idea that people’s failings were more often a consequence of their environments rather than personal moral failures. Thus, people could be reformed.
300
It was one reason why The Republic of Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States?
What is the fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state?
300
At the outbreak of the Civil war, they were were Democrats who favored a negotiated peace with the South and were viewed with suspicion by Northerners
Who were the Copperheads?
400
As John C. Calhoun noted, a high tariff on manufactured goods protected northern industry but did little to protect southern economic interests
What 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.
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 second Great Awakening and who was Charles G. Finney?
400
One consequence of this activity was that women began to assert themselves more politically
What was was a consequence of the emergence of female social reformers during the antebellum period.?
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
Their devotion to human rights is evident in participation in both movements.
Who were the Grimké sisters and their participation in both the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement through their giving of public speeches for the abolition of slavery and attendance at the Seneca Falls convention evidence?
500
It 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 and the consequences of the proposal they were the consequences of effects of the was the Wilmot Proviso
What was the Wilmot Proviso and the fact that it prioritized sectional politics over party politics?
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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