US History 1
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?
What is free enterprise?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Significance of John Locke
What is philosopher that Thomas Jefferson followed, which formed the idea of unalienable rights.
A movement defined by scientific reasoning, individualism and freedom.
What is the enlightenment?
What are the three branches of the government?
Judicial Branch
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
The Federalist strongly supported a
strong centralized government
What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
The right to vote for all freedmen
Warned that the US would not tolerate any more colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine
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 are the Principles of the Constitution?
Federalism
Limited Government
Individual Rights
Popular Sovereignty
Republicanism
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
What was impressment?
after sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy
The political party that was made up of mostly of planters and previous confederate leaders after the Civil War
Democrat
The Sedition Act granted the president the power to
prohibit "treasonous" speech
What is the revolutionary war and the war of 1812?
What were Radical Republicans?
Republicans who favored extreme approach to Reconstruction
This Document that incited the American Revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first secretary of the treasury
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
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?
Life, liberty and property
What is natural rights defined by John Locke?
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
Andrew Johnson's stance on Reconstruction
What is to make is as easy as possible for the South to rejoin the United State?