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The longest section of the Declaration of Independence that includes abuses that violated the colonists' rights.
What is the List of Grievances?
100
-limited to two terms
- Establishing the cabinet system
- Defining the role of the presidency in foreign policy.
- Addressing the president as "Mr. President"
- Presenting the State of the Union address
- maintaining neutrality in foreign affairs.
What are the precedents set by George Washington?
100
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
100
President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Explorers of Louisiana Territory purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
100
Invention that began the agricultural revolution and led to the industrial revolution
What is the cotton gin?
100
This political cartoon, illustrated by Ben Franklin, represents an important event in U.S. history.
What is the "Join or Die" for The American Revolution
100
This law made it legal for Southerner slave owners to go into the North to legally retrieve their slaves.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This treaty ended a conflict between France and England (French and Indian War).
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?
200
This act allowed British soldiers the right to stay in colonists' homes while occupying colonies. Many colonists did not like this act.
The Quartering Act
200
There are three branches of the government. This branch is responsible for enforcing laws and is headed by the president.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
The Anti-Federalist strongly supported a
What is a states' rights and a weaker strong centralized national government
200
The purchase of land from France in 1803 that nearly doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
200
Warned that the US would not tolerate any more colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine
200
This is significant topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates for the 1860 Presidential election.
What is their stance on slavery?
200
This is the belief Americans should own land from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans
What was Manifest Destiny?
300
The Declaration of Independence was heavily influenced by this philosopher and his literature in the pamphlet Common Sense.
Who is John Locke?
300
This document preceded the Constitution and was the U.S. first form of government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
This involved South Carolina opposing federal taxes during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
300
When sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy, it helped to lead to the War of 1812
What was impressment?
300
The political party that supported slavery and was mostly located in the south.
What is the Democrat Party?
300
The Articles of Confederation
What is the first governing document that the US used before the Constitution?
300
Two wars that the US fought against Great Britain
What are the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War?
300
Jefferson Davis
Who was the first and only president of The Confederacy?
400
This document incited the American Revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
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 is Shays' Rebellion
400
This is the "deal breaking" clause that Anti-federalist required the Constitution to include before they agreed to ratify the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
The Alien Acts granted the president the power to
expel or imprison immigrants
400
This is a party that supported industry and a strong centralized national government.
What are the Federalists?
400
A run-away slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement and special advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
Congress sent these two to which France to negotiate an alliance during the Revolutionary War.
Who are Benjamin Franklin and John Adams?
400
Name the 3 important events that happened in 1968 in America.
What is the
- Assassination of Dr. M.L. King, Jr.
- Assassination of Robert Kennedy
- Presidential Election of 1968
500
Because of this battle's location that occurred during the Revolutionary War, Britain's forces were surrounded on three sides by the French navy and one side by the Continental Army.
Where is the Battle of Yorktown?
500
- Opposing the national bank
- the spoils system
- Trail of Tears (Indian Removal Act)
- The Common Man Era?
What are things that Andrew Jackson was known for in his presidency?
500
This disagreement over Texas' border led to war which U.S. acquired present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
What is the Mexican-American War?
500
America's second president who implement the Alien and Sedition Act.
Who is John Adams?
500
This was the 2nd revival of religious feeling in the United States.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
500
This invention made the country reliant of slave labor, made cotton the main agricultural crop of the US which ultimately destroyed the economy after the war.
What are the effects of the cotton gin on US economy?
500
This treaty ended the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo?
500
This is a policy which stated that the western hemisphere is "off limits" to the European countries.
What is the Monroe Doctrine