Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
People 1
People 2
100
What was the primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France?
Fur Trapping
100
The first rebellion to challenge the new federal constitution came from taxes on what product?
Whiskey
100
What act lead to "Bleeding Kansas"?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
100
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
100
Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury?
Alexander Hamilton
200
What was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
200
During the Constitutional Convention, what compromised dealt with the North-South controversy over slavery
three-fifths compromise
200
What was the name of the nativist party in the mid-1800s?
The Know-Nothings (American Party)
200
Who created the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
200
Who helped create some of the first mental health institutions (asylums) in the USA?
Dorthea Dix
300
What prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
300
From what country did the USA purchase the Louisiana territory?
France
300
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriett Beecher Stowe
300
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Marbury v. Madison ruling?
John Marshall
400
Within a century of Columbus' lanfall in the New World the Native American populations were reduced by ____%.
90
400
The number of electoral college votes is determined by __________.
The number of representation in the house and the senate
400
Who was the first Republican to run for the presidency?
John C. Fremont
400
Who was the foreigner that trained the colonial troops during the Revolutionary War?
Fredrick Von Steuban
400
Which two people lead the first womens' rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY?
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
500
Ben Franklin and the French and Indian War
500
What treaty allowed Americans to use the Mississippi River and the port at New Orleans (right of deposit)?
Pickney's Treaty
500
Gadsden Purchase
500
Who helped save Jamestown by introducing tobacco as a cash crop?
John Rolfe
500
Who was the great british leader during the French and Indian War?
William Pitt