Unit 1
This was the set of religious practices that determined how English people were required to worship.
What are the Acts of Uniformity?
These were coerced laborers that did an increasingly large portion of the agricultural labor in the Thirteen Colonies—particularly in the American South.
What are black African slaves?
This was a protective mechanism in many modern constitutions that provides ways for other branches of government to stop or stymie the actions of another—especially if considered an abuse of power.
What are checks and balances?
These were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in protest to changes in taxation by the British.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This was an act that, among other things, was used by the lame duck President John Adams in his last 19 days in office to stack the U.S. federal court system with as many pro-Federalist judges as possible.
What is the Midnight Judges Act?
This was the forced march in which thousands of Cherokee peoples who attempted to stop relocation died from disease and starvation.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This was a territorial organic act that created the territories of two new states; it is more notable for effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise and stoking national tensions over the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the event that caused Southern states to begin seceding as they feared Republicans would move to eliminate the institution of slavery.
What is the 1860 Presidential Election?
Which of the following was a guaranteed constitutional right that both Lincoln and later Congress suspended during the American Civil War?
What is habeas corpus?
This was a military campaign in which Union forces moved from Atlanta to Savannah harbor in 1864. The campaign was controversial due to its use of scorched earth tactics.
What is Sherman's March?
Writer of the Declaration of Independence, ardent Anti-Federalist, anti-elitist, pro-agrarian, and 3rd president of the United States from 1801-1809.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Pro-Federalist politician and statesman who served as Chief Justice of the United States from 1801-35.
Who is John Marshall?
Federalist politician and 2nd president of the United States from 1797-1801.
Who is John Adams?
Federalist turned Democratic-Republican, 4th president of the United States from 1809-1817, and author of the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
A public document that formally announced the reasons for the Thirteen Colonies’ split from Great Britain in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The effective law of the United States and its government from 1789-present.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The first government of the United States from 1781-1787; it was replaced in 1787 largely due to its ineffective central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This was a turning point battle during the American Civil War in 1863; victory allowed Union forces to repel a Confederate invasion of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
This was the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War in which Massachusetts state militia fought British regular troops that were attempting to disarm the colony.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This was a turning point battle during the American Civil War in 1863; victory allowed Union forces to control the Mississippi River, effectively cutting the Confederacy and its supply lines in half.
What is Vicksburg?
This was an American political party in the late-18th and early-19th century that advocated for small-scale farming, expanded democracy, and opposed a strong national government and aristocracy.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party (Jeffersonians)?
This was an American political party created in the mid-19th century that gained prominence in the North and West of the United States; their initial platform centered around abolishing slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This was an American political party in the late-18th and early-19th century that advocated for a stronger national government, commercialization, and foreign trade.
What is the Federalist Party?
This was an American political party created in the early-mid-19th century that gained prominence in South of the United States; by the mid-19th century, their primary platform included, among other things, the protection of the institution of slavery.
What is the Democratic Party?
This was the opening battle of the American Civil War in 1861 in which South Carolinian forces attached a federally-held fort near Charleston, South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?