Unit 1-American Discontent
Unit 2- The New Republic
Unit 3-Expansion and Reform
Unit 4-Slavery and Division
Random
100
This event is celebrated every 4th of July in the U.S.
What is the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
100
The first 10 Amendments to the U.S. constitution are also known as this
What are The Bill of Rights?
100
This was the reform movement of the 1800's that aimed to end alcohol consumption
What is the Temperance Movement?
100
This was Eli Whitney's invention that allowed "King Cotton" to be the dominant crop in the South
What is the Cotton Gin?
100
The War of 1812 was fought between these two sides
What are The U.S. and Great Britain?
200
This famous event occurred in 1773 when angry colonists threw barrels of tea into the Boston harbor.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
200
This branch of government interprets the constitution, deciding what the laws mean and how they apply to real-life issues
What is the Judicial Branch?
200
This reform movement was marked by efforts to end slavery in all U.S. states.
What is the Abolition movement?
200
This was an event marked by violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in the Kansas Territory
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
200
These laws were widely criticized for violating citizens' 1st Amendment rights
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
300
This was the primary reason behind why European countries wanted to colonize North America
What is to Expand their empires?
300
This is the term used to describe power being divided between federal and state governments
What is Federalism?
300
This is the term used to describe the period of time before the Civil War
What is the Antebellum period?
300
This novel, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, portrayed the horrors of slavery and was even banned in several southern states
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This foreign policy affair ended with John Adams using diplomacy in order to prevent a war with France
What is the XYZ Affair?
400
Most of the tensions that arose between colonial America and the British Crown were caused by:
What are Taxes and Violation of rights?
400
This prevents any one branch of the government from becoming too powerful
What are Checks and Balances?
400
According to this picture, critics felt that this historical figure abused his power as the 7th President of the United States
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
These were the set of rules that banned enslaved people from marrying, voting, or leaving a plantation; this caused a social hierarchy to form among enslaved people, with field-workers at the bottom.
What are the Slave Codes?
400
This was the event that occurred at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859, which increased southern fears of extreme northern hostility
What is John Brown's Raid?
500
This was the outcome of the American Revolution
What is a new country was formed, the United States of America.
500
These two groups of Congress make up the Legislative Branch
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
500
This reform movement was led by Dorothea Dix; while it improved the prison system and care of the "mentally ill", it never actually resulted in a constitutional amendment.
what was the mental illness reform movement?
(will also allow what is the prison reform movement?)
500
This was the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union; was also Cause #6 in our notes
What is Secession?
500
The white-highlighted area indicates which U.S. land acquisition?
What is The Louisiana Purchase?