I - European Expansion & Exploration
The country that sent explorers to North America in search of the Fountain of Youth.
What is Spain?
A state and our nation's Capital is named after this president.
Who is George Washington?
The term for the de facto leader of the Supreme Court.
What is the Chief Justice?
The election of this political candidate in 1828 was seen as a sign that the Western states were becoming major political players.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The territorial acquisition in 1803 essentially doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The president of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The main motivators for European countries to expand into the "New World".
(Identify at least 2)
What is God, gold, and glory?
The lawyer that represented the British on trial after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
The five protections of the First Amendment.
What are speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly?
This act stated that U.S. citizens could not join any plots against the government's policies.
What is the Sedition Act?
This state entered the Union on September 9th, 1850.
What is California?
This state was the first to secede from the Union before the Civil War.
What is South Carolina?
The English pilgrims who originally arrived in North America were a part of this branch of Protestantism.
What is Calvinism?
This prevented the colonists from expanding westward following the Seven Years War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The number of voting members in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
This event involved 3 French agent that demanding a $250,000 bribe from the United States.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This territory acquisition in the southern part of modern Arizona was purchased in order to expand our rail infrastructure.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The term used to describe an alliance of independent states where authority is retained at the local or state level.
What is a confederation?
A Quaker who founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
Who was William Penn?
The term for people who wanted the federal government to have the most power.
Who are the Federalists?
This historic case legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Due to the "Indian Removal Act" that was enforced by then President Jackson, this state became known as "Indian Territory and now has one of the highest population of Native American tribal settlements.
What is Oklahoma?
Title given to Henry Clay's plan to improve transportation routes by building more roads and canals.
What is the American System?
A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal, and required their return to slaveholders.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Acts that imposed duties on British manufactured goods in the colonies.
What are the Townshend [Revenue] Acts
The oldest framer present at the signing of the Constitution.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The foreign policy adopted in 1823 which created the "sphere of influence" for the United States around North and South America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The state used popular sovereignty to determine its "Slave" or "Free" status, leading to intense and bloody conflicts within it's borders.
What is Kansas?
This French technological invention cause casualties to dramatically increase in during the American civil war.
What is the Minie Ball?