Colonial Beginnings
A 1787 law that established a method for admitting new states and banned slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What is The Northwest Ordinance
What is The first government of the United States, which failed due to a weak central authority
Articles of Confederation
Who is John Adams
The expansion of suffrage to all white males, promoting the common man, is characteristic of this form of democracy
What is Jacksonian Democracy
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the North American continent
What is Manifest Destiny
Name two manufactured goods or resources the English colonies imported as part of the Trans-Atlantic Trade.
What are Manufactured goods and Slaves
The agreement at the Constitutional Convention that created a bicameral legislature (House based on population, Senate equal representation)
What is the Great Compromise
In this speech George Washington warned against permanent foreign alliances and the dangers of political factions
What is George Washington's Farewell Address
The forced removal of the Cherokee and other tribes from the Southeast, which resulted in thousands of deaths
What is the Trail of Tears
The annexation of Texas and the acquisition of the Mexican Cession resulted from which war?
The Mexican American War
What was a significant reason, related to the economy, for the establishment of the Southern Colonies
What is to make profits from mineral resources and agriculture
The agreement that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for both taxation and representation
What is the 3/5 compromise
This war resulted in an increase in national pride and the demise of the Federalist Party.
What is the War of 1812
According to Henry Clay, what was the sole objective of the tariff mentioned in his speech
What is the tax is exclusively leveled at foreign industry to promote American industry
This compromise attempted to ease sectional tensions by admitting California as a free state but included the harsh Fugitive slave law, which angered the North.
What is the Compromise of 1850
two economic activities the New England colonists began to specialize in due to their geography.
What is Lumber, fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding
The revolt by indebted farmers in Massachusetts in 1786 that demonstrated the failure of the first government
What is Shay's Rebellion
President Jefferson doubled the size of the U.S. through this purchase
What is the Lousianna Purchase
What was Andrew Jackson's policy toward American Indians in the Southeast?
What is American Indians in the Southeast were removed from their tribal lands and forced to relocate west of the Mississippi River
The idea that residents of a territory should vote to decide whether to allow slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
Two critical economic industries in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies.
what is Farming grains such as wheat and Logging and shipbuilding
The anti-Federalists refused to ratify the US Constitution without this additional document
What is the Bill of Rights
The main argument opponents raised against President Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory
What is The U.S. Constitution did not expressly permit Jefferson’s action?
The name for the time that Jackson was in office
What is the Era of the Common man
This Union victory gave it control of the Mississippi River, dividing the Confederacy in two
Battle of Vicksburg