Colonial Period
The more common name for Separatist Puritans.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This act prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and served as a symbolic end to Salutary Neglect.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The main purpose of this piece of Federalist legislation under John Adams was to silence and punish critics of the Federalist party.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This system under Andrew Jackson resulted in the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs.
What is the Spoils System?
The first and only president of the Confederacy (South).
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Unlike Separatists, Mainstream Puritans remained Members of this church.
What is the Church of England?
John Adams successfully defended the perpetrators of this horrific event, and anti-British leaders used it to spur rebellion in the colonies.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The Federalists’ use of the elastic clause depicted that they viewed the Constitution in this manner.
What is a loose interpretation of the Constitution?
The nullification crisis over which Tariff was started by this state.
What is the state of South Carolina and the Tariff of Abominations or the Tariff of 1828?
The event in 1861 that marked the start of hostilities between the North and South.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This was England’s prevailing economic philosophy of the 1600s that held the belief that colonies existed to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
These two movements during the Pre-Revolutionary period shared a message of questioning established authority. Name at least one of them.
What is the Great Awakening or the Enlightenment?
His economic program included a national bank, assumption of state debts, and a tariff.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This was the “cement” that held the Whig Party together in its formative days. Also, this was the issue that would ultimately divide members of the party.
What is their hatred of Andrew Jackson and the issue of slavery?
1. weapons such as the mini ball rifles 2. disease from unhealthy living conditions 3. infection from poor medical practices
What are the reasons for high casualties in the Civil War?
The first representative assembly in Virginia that contained many of the "First Families" of Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The British Parliament passed this act in order to raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense.
What is the Stamp Act?
President Washington realized that permanent alliances would not work in the future for the United States and warned against them in his Farewell Address, he also warned about the dangers of these...
What are political parties?
This person's relationship with Henry Clay contributed to Andrew Jackson’s hatred of the institution of the Bank of the United States.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
Document issued by Abraham Lincoln that changed the purpose of the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This practice admitted to baptism, but not full membership, the unconverted children of existing members of the Church.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
Before 1763, this set of British legislation was only loosely enforced in the American colonies
What are the Navigation Acts or Navigation Laws?
This insurrection, which dealt with the foreclosures on the mortgages of backcountry farmers in Massachusetts, convinced many Americans of the need for a stronger central government.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
John Quincy Adams was charged by his political opponents with having struck a “corrupt bargain” when he appointed this man as Secretary of State following which election.
Who is Henry Clay in the election of 1824?
3 day battle in Pennsylvania where 1/3 of Lee's army was defeated that served as a turning point in the war for the North.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?