The forced removal of indian trips west of the mississippi
What is the trail of tears/Indian Removal Act?
He is the First President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Explorers of Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clark
Invention that began the agricultural revolution and led to the industrial revolution
What is the cotton gin?
"Join or Die"
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Made all escaped slaves fugitives. Southerners could go into the North to legally retrieve their slaves
The Quartering Act
What are the three branches of the government?
Judicial Branch
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
The Federalist strongly supported a
strong centralized government
The purchase of land from France in 1803 that nearly doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
Warned that the US would not tolerate any more colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine
Significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
What is made a name for Abraham Lincoln due to his debate skills and stance on slavery?
What was Manifest Destiny?
The first document in the America's that encouraged self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This document preceded the Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation
What tactics were used by the Patriots, specifically the Southern Patriots, during the Revolutionary War?
Guerilla Warfare
What was impressment?
after sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy
The political party supported slavery and was mostly located in the south?
Democrat
What governing document did the US use before the Constitution?
The Articles of Confederation
What is the revolutionary war and the war of 1812?
Who was the president of The Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
This Document that incited the American Revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence?
After the Revolutionary War, many veterans were not getting their paychecks for their service. Many veterans protested, overthrowing a Massachusetts court house and freeing those imprisoned for their debts. What was this event?
Shays' Rebellion
What was the "deal breaking" clause that Anti-federalist required the Constitution to include for ratification?
Bill of Rights
The Alien Acts granted the president the power to
expel or imprison immigrants
a party that supported industry, a growing centralized government, and rule by property owners
Federalist
A run-away slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement and special advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Whose argument resulted in the creation of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists?
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
Why did Forty-niners and others rush to California?
What didn't the Articles of Confederation last?
It made the federal government too weak, and foreign governments didn't know if the US was one country or 13 separate countries
3 things that Andrew Jackson was known for in his presidency
What is: Opposing the national bank, the spoils system, trail of tears, going against a supreme court ruling,
Who started the Mexican American War? Why was it started? What was the result?
US
disagreement over Texas border (because we wanted California)
US won and got the territory of California for much cheaper than before.
America's second president
John Adams
What was the 2nd revival of religious feeling in the United States?
Second Great Awakening
Effects of the cotton gin on US economy?
What is made the country reliant of slave labor, made cotton the main agricultural crop of the US which ultimately destroyed the economy after the war.
Which treaty ended the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo
What changed between the first Tennessee Constitution and the Tennessee Constitution of 1834
It expanded voting rights for non-property owners