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Unanimous choice for the first President of the United States of America
George Washington
The Bill of Rights has how many amendments?
10
Most famous and successful "conductor" on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Guarantees US citizens specific rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion
The Bill of Rights
Person whose election to the presidency in 1860 led seven southern states to secede from the Union. Known for his Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln
What "Compromise" was approved by Congress to maintain an equal amount of slave states and free states in the nation?
The Missouri Compromise
The power of the courts to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional is known as
Shoshone Indian who provided invaluable help to the Lewis and Clark expedition. *Hint* On the gold dollar
Sacagawea
Escaped slave who gave speeches about the harshness of life under slavery
Frederick Douglass
Author od antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This notion passed by the first Congress established a federal district.
Judiciary Act of 1789
What was considered to be a renewed and powerful interest in religion that spread westward from New York in the 1970s?
The Second Great Awakening
A practice that would allow the citizens of each new territory to vote whether or not to permit slavery. Some senators believed that any new territories should rely on this.
Popular Sovereignty
Shawnee leader who urged Indians not to sell land to white settlers.
Tecumseh
Jefferson Davis was the provisional president of the...
Confederate States of America
What did the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions denounce as unconstitutional and ask Congress to repeal?
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Chief Justice of the United States who establushed the principle of judicial review
John Marshall
The US purchased this location from France for about $15 million or roughly four cents an acre
Louisiana
The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and
Great Britain...NOT FRANCE
US President who vowed that the United States would oppose any European attempts to regain former Latin American colonies
James Monroe
Secretary of the treasury whose views on the economy were influenced by Scottish economist Adam Smith
Alexander Hamilton
What system was proposed by Representative Henry Clay, which included a plan to fund a national transportation system?
The American System
In the early 1840s who sought such reforms such as shorter workdays and higher wages?
Labor Unions
What was the belief held by many Americans that God intened the US to expand westward to the Atlantic Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
Though antislavery Democrats, Free-Soilers, and Whigs flocked to the newly formed Republican Pary, which Democrat won the 1856 presidential election?
James Buchanan