First Government
What was the name of the first governing system of the United States (it only lasted four years)?
Articles of Confederation
What was the term for the group of advisors that Washington created to help him with his Presidential duties?
Cabinet
Which land acquisition doubled the size of the United States under President Jefferson?
Louisiana Purchase
Identify any one of the 4 critical abolitionists focused on in your lessons that worked to fight for an end to slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The southern states left the Union and formed the Confederate States of America right after ____ was elected to the presidency.
Abe Lincoln
States
Washington's Secretary of Treasury, _______________, created a financial plan to bring stability to the American economic system.
Alexander Hamilton
What group of Americans, who lived in Mexican territory, went to war with Mexico because the Mexican government prohibited slavery?
Texans
A big controversy develops over whether new states would be free or slave states, because the side with more states would be able to control the ________.
Congress, Senate, Laws (etc.)
Identify any 3 specific advantages of the North in the Civil War.
Railroads, Telegraphs, Factories, Population, Navy, Food, etc.
When the United States Constitution was created, some people did not like it because they thought it gave too much power to the national government. They were called ___________.
Anti-Federalists
Which President went beyond the Constitutional limits of presidential powers when he enacted the Indian Removal Acts, destroyed the National Bank, and abused his veto power?
Andrew Jackson
What territory was purchased from Spain for $5 million to complete the Atlantic Coast of the United States?
Florida
Who was the man that sued for his freedom but was instead labeled as "property" in a Supreme Court decision?
Dred Scott
Who was the very skilled Confederate general who was the main leader of the Confederate armies?
Robert E. Lee
Bill of Rights
In the Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court decision, the Supreme Court declared a law to be unconstitutional - the power to do this is called _______________.
Judicial Review
What is the dividing line between the United States and Canada?
49th Parallel
In the first election that a state would decide whether it was a free or slave state, southerners corrupted the election and violence breaks out. This event was called __________.
Bleeding Kansas
Lincoln's main goal when the Civil War started was to ____________.
keep the union together (etc.)
What are any 4 freedoms protected in the First Amendment to the Constitution?
The United States warned Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere in the 1820s. This warning is known as the ________________.
Monroe Doctrine
What land area was purchased by the United States for $10 million from Mexico to build a railroad (but we didn't get Rocky Point)?
Gadsden Purchase
An abolitionist who believed that God wanted him to kill all slaveholders tried to take over a federal arsenal in Virginia - he was caught, tried, and executed. His name was __________.
John Brown
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