US History 1
the department heads who advise the president
cabinet
First President of the United States who lived in the White House?
John Adams
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
the Bill or Rights
He was the third President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
Explorers of Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clark
She was a shoshone Indian who help guide Lewis and Clark.
Who was Sacajawea
He invented the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
This President's Doctrine stated that the Western Hemisphere was off limits for European recolonization
Who was James Monroe
Washington's Secretary of the Treasury
Who was Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was a leader of this "party"
The Federalist Party
A tax on imported goods?
A Tariff
The Federalist strongly supported a
strong centralized government
he April 1861 bombardment of this South Carolina fort marked the official beginning of the American Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The British policy of taking sailors off American ship against their will.
What is impressment
The popular 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This controversial 1850 law required citizens nationwide to assist in the recovery of runaway slaves, deeply angering Northern abolitionists.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
When President Washington took any action as President, he set a ______________
What is a precedent
Established the nation's first cabinet
George Washington
The 1854 law that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty to determine the status of slavery in new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This amendment guarantees the right to protest
1st Amendment
a party that supported the common people and favored a small, limited government
Anti-Federalists
The name given to the group of young congressmen who favored war with Britain
Who were the Warhawks
This founding father served as the first Vice President and the second President, managing the undeclared "Quasi-War" with France.
Who was John Adams?
The 1620 document signed by the Pilgrims before landing at Plymouth, establishing the first framework for self-government in the New World.
This branch of government is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative branch (or Congress)?
Who was the first secretary of the State
Thomas Jefferson
The amendment requiring a warrant for police search
4th
When dealing with the War between England and France, G. Washington issued a declaration of ___________ meaning the US would support neither side.
Neutrality
a party that supported industry, a growing centralized government, and rule by property owners
Federalist
Who was the "hero of the Battle of New Orleans" fought weeks after the war was over.
Andrew Jackson
The argument between these two men resulted in the creation of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
The British ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, killing 128 Americans and turning U.S. public opinion against Germany.
What is the Lusitania?
This rebellion forced Washington to lead Federal troops to Pennsylvania to put it down
What was the Whiskey Rebellion
The Constitution was written to replace this document
The Articles of Confederation
This man was the fourth President of the United States
James Madison
America's second president who was involved with midnight judges
John Adams
This guy was really shady and hated Alexander Hamilton (He shot him dead)
Who was Aaron Burr
This system ensures that no single branch of government becomes too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
Which treaty ended the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris 1783
He was the President during the Mexican-American war
Who was James K. Polk
Washington's Secretary of War, Henry Knox died in this weird way
What was a chicken bone? He passed away after accidentally swallowing a chicken bone that lodged in his throat and became infected.
These laws made it a punishable offense to make "false, scandalous and malicious" statements against the government.
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts
This 1848 treaty officially ended the Mexican-American War and ceded vast territories to the United States.
Passed in 1830 this law forced the Native Americans out of the areas new the East Coast.
What was the Indian Removal Act.
The introduction to the U.S. Constitution that sets regular goals for the government.
What is the Preamble?
The executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
She gave the famous "Ain't I a woman" Speech
Who is Sojourner Truth
Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a _____ so hard that it broke
A Cane
The 1854 law that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty to determine the status of slavery in new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
He was a young French diplomat who recruited Americans to fight for France against Great Britain
Who was Edmund Genet
The 1787 agreement that settled how states would be represented in Congress, creating a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise)?
The Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek and Chickasaw where known collectively as
What is the "Five Civilized Tribes."
The practice of filling government positions/jobs with your loyal supporters is called
What is the spoils system
The Cold War foreign policy theory holding that if one nation fell to communism, its neighboring countries would inevitably fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
The surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against a naval base in Honolulu on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
John Brown led the raid on the Federal arsenal at ?
What is Harper Ferry, Virginia