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Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Who was an abolitionist who believed in colonization and gradual emancipation. He called for immediate freedom for the slaves and for the end of all political ties between the northern and southern states.
100
When were the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions drafted?
What is 1798
100
What is "wage slavery"?
What is someone who depends on the money they make from their job in order to pay for the things that they need
100
What was the pastorialization of housework?
What is the period when antebellum American women embraced housework. At this time, women's role was becoming more and more diminished - in an economic sense.This left the housework as a job without monetary value and largely on the shoulders of the women.
100
Did the nationalists or the localists believe in a weak central government?
Who are the localists
200
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Who was a United States statesman and leader of the Federalists; as the first Secretary of the Treasury he established a federal bank.
200
When did the Second Bank of the United States open?
What is 1816
200
What happened at the Hartford convention?
What is New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power
200
Who were the Lowell Mills girls?
Who were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
200
Name one cause of the transformation of slavery
What is the cotton revolution or market revolution or the closing of african slave trade
300
Who was Tecumseh?
Who was an American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe. He attempted to unite western Indian tribes against the White people, but was defeated at Tippecanoe (1811). He was killed while fighting for the British in the War of 1812.
300
In what century did the Second Great Awakening take place?
What is the 19th century
300
What was the nullification crisis?
What was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared, by the power of the State itself, that the federal Tariff of 1828 and the federal Tariff of 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. The controversial, and highly protective, Tariff of 1828 (also called the "Tariff of Abominations") was enacted into law during the presidency of John Quincy Adams.
300
What is "true womanhood"?
What is the idea that women are the moral guardians of the universe, therefore, they wouldn't just bring influence into their immediate families, they would bring it into the world. This is significant in the push to participate in reform movements so that women's ideas could be heard.
300
The Second Great Awakening was in response to the ______ economy?
What is the market economy
400
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Who was a United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North. "The Meaning of July Fourth for a Negro".
400
When were the Alien and Sedition Acts drafted?
What is 1798
400
What was the Embargo of 1807?
What were American laws restricting American ships from engaging in foreign trade 1807 and 1812. They led to the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
400
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
What was a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
400
What is temperance?
What is abstinence from alcoholic drink
500
Who was Charles Finney?
Who was a minister leader in the Second Great Awakening. He used revival to get more moral values in society and he wanted a better good for the people.
500
When did the nullification crisis take place?
What is 1832
500
What was Manifest Destiny?
What is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of multiplying millions
500
Who was Harriet Jacobs?
Who was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer
500
Which party, the Whigs or the Democrats, took the choice out of people's hands?
Who are the democrats
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