Before the Constitution
The first constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Slave states that did not secede from the Union.
What are border states?
This president signed the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Who is John Adams?
Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Colonial region defined by rocky soil, villages, and timber.
What is New England?
The significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
What is setting up a process for statehood?
This region supported protective tariffs.
What is the North?
First president to ever be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Famous conductor from the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
These two colonies were founded by leaders that left Puritanical Massachusetts.
What are Connecticut and Rhode Island?
The word that best describes the economy of the Antebellum South.
What is agrarian?
Elected through a contingent election known as the "Corrupt Bargain."
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Principle of United States Government that is most closely related to the 10th Amendment.
What is federalism?
This event started over the use of protective tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This practice led to the rise of self-governance in the 13 Colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
This policy helped to spark violence in Kansas.
What is popular sovereignty?
This president instituted an embargo of British goods that greatly harmed the American economy.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This compromise from the Constitutional Convention led to greater political power in the South.
What is the Three-fifths Compromise?
Transcendentalist
Famous essayist
Promoted Independence and self-reliance
Works included "Nature" and "The American Scholar"
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This first meeting where multiple colonies came together to discuss common defense.
What is the Albany Congress?
Lincoln suspend this during the Civil War.
What is habeas corpus?
This Whig Party president was denied his party's nomination.
Who is John Tyler?
The doctrine of nullification challenges this clause from the Constitution.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This military skirmish resulted in part because of the XYZ Affair
What is the Quasi War?