What three things did Washington warn against in his farewell address?
1. Debt
2. Foreign Alliances
3. Political Parties
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A Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction was known as a
A Carpetbagger
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The large amounts of legislation that President Franklin Roosevelt passed during the Great Depression in attempts to end the Depression was known as the
The New Deal
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When issued by President Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves only in....
The South
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This revolt in western Virginia that led to a decrease in indentured servitude and increase in slave labor.
Bacon's Rebellion
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The biggest problem with the Articles of Confederation government was...
the inability of the Federal government to tax
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What laws in the South segregated whites and blacks?
Jim Crow Laws
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The land that would eventually become the state of Arizona, known initially as the New Mexico Territory, was acquired by the United States after the U.S. won which war?
Mexican American War
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The widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, disease (smallpox), and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans after 1492.
Columbian Exchange
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Who was the main author of the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
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Those that were in support of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution were known as
Federalists
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During Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, he nearly doubled the size of the United States by purchasing a large tract of land. This was called...
Louisiana Purchase
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Declaration of Independence.
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Hernan Cortez is most known for...
Defeating the Aztec
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What colony started in Virginia was known as a joint stock company
Jamestown
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The admission of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state was part of the....
Missouri Compromise
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The South seceeded as a result of what election?
Election of 1860
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This major battle of the Mexican American War gave Texans the motivation to keep fighting to win the war, even though they had lost the battle.
Alamo
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The Spanish and Portugese who explored South America are known as ?
Conquistadores
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The time period in the early 1800's when voting rights were expanded to white males who did not own property.
Jacksonian American - Jacksonian Democracy
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Was is popular sovereignty?
When a territory votes whether or not it will be slave or free.
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What event was the closest that the U.S. ever came to Nuclear War on U.S. soil?
Cuban Missile Crisis.
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In 1765, the American colonists became outraged over a new tax placed upon them by the British. Their protest and anger eventually caused the British to repeal this tax. This tax was known as the
Stamp Act
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He was a Massachusetts preacher of the Great Awakening best known for a sermon called, “Sinners in the hands of an angry God”
Jonathan Edwards
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This invention led to an increase in Cotton production in the South and an increase in slave labor.