Main reason plantations thrived in the South and trade and manufacturing in New England
What is geography :)
100
The Great Compromise
What decided representation in the new government by creating a bicameral legislature with one house being based on population (The House of Representatives) and another having equal representation per state (The Senate)
100
Alexander Hamilton's financial plan
What includes: a National Bank (to stabilize the currency), a protective tariff, and assumption of the state Revolutionary War debt?
100
Mercantilism
What is the economic system based upon the belief that colonies exist to benefit of the mother country by providing raw materials and markets.
100
Virginia House of Burgesses
What is the representative body set up in Virginia.
200
Puritans agreed that they would govern in the best interest of all on the boat.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
Protects freedom of expression
What is the First Amendment?
200
Washington's Farewell Address
What is Washington's advice that the newly formed United States should "steer clear of permanent alliances."
200
Missouri Compromise
What agreed to allow Maine to become a free state, Missouri enter the Union as a slave state, and prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36'30" (except Missouri)
200
Lobbying
What is it called when interest groups contact legislatures in an effort to sway their votes?
300
Two specific effects of the French and Indian War
What is the
End of Salutary Neglect;
Enforcement of Navigation Laws
Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Acts, and
The Proclamation of 1763
300
How the Electoral College works
What is: each state gets the number of electors that they have representatives in both houses of Congress. 48 out of 50 states have a "winner take all system." and you need at least 270 electoral votes to be the US President.
300
Jefferson's motivation for the Louisiana Purchase
What is to control the Mississippi River in order to give farmers access to the Port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico
300
Unwritten Constitution
What are the customs (precedents) of our government that are so ingrained it's like they are in the Constitution (but they're not) i.e. political parties, cabinet. . .
300
Federalism
What is the balance of power between levels of government
400
Success of weak one branch government of the Articles of Confederation
What is winning the war;
Land Ordinance of 1785; and
Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
400
Two examples of Checks and Balances
Veto --- 2/3rd override of a veto
Presidential appointments --- confirmation by Senate
Treaty --- Must be ratified by Senate
Judicial Review
House Impeaches--- trial in Senate
400
Washington sent troops led by Alexander Hamilton and clearly demonstrated the new national government was to be obeyed
What is to the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania
400
Judicial Review
What is the power of the judiciary to declare other governmental acts unconstitutional (Marbury v. Madison, Marshall Court)?
400
"Common Sense"
What is Thomas Paine's pamphlet urging independence for the British colonies in North America?
500
Saved the Jamestown colony with his tobacco farming
Who is John Rolfe?
500
American historical document that most closely embodies John Locke's ideas of government getting its power from the "consent of the governed."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
Jefferson's argument in the Kentucky Resolution
What is that the states had the power to nullify federal laws they believed were unconstitutional (Nullification Doctrine)?
500
Antebellum
What is Latin for "before the war"?
500
One aspect of "Jacksonian Democracy"
What is Universal white male suffrage;
move from Caucus system to nominating conventions;
two parties (end of Era of Good Feelings/ Democrats and Whigs); and
spoils system.