Colonial Era & Early America
US Constitution & Government
Federalist Era
Antebellum United States (Pre-Civil War)
Post-Civil War & Reconstruction
100
The Virginia House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact were both attempts by the American colonists to practice which 2 ideals of American government?
What is self-government and democracy
100
The nation's first but failed attempt at a plan for government was called this three word title - this document did not give power to the federal government to tax, raise an army, and did not provide an executive or judicial branch
What is the Articles of Confederation
100
As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall tended to make decisions that strengthened the
What is the federal government
100
This 12-letter s-word is used to describe the division between the North and South
What is sectionalism
100
This group of Congressmen demanded the South be punished for starting the Civil War and also fought to get equal rights for blacks
What is the Radical Republicans
200
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine persuaded many American colonists to support independence from Britain
What is Common Sense
200
The sharing of power between the federal government and state governments is called
What is federalism
200
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton used the elastic clause to create
What is the Bank of the United States (first national bank)
200
The belief that the US should control and expand over the continent by "military conquest, treaty, or purchase"
What is Manifest Destiny
200
Southern states passed these laws to segregate blacks from whites
What are Jim Crow laws
300
This document, a "break-up letter" from the US to Britain, derived many of its ideas from the European Enlightenment movement
What is the Declaration of Independence
300
The three branches of our government are the
What is legislative, judicial, executive
300
Differences between how power should be divided between the state governments and the federal government led to the formation of our
What is two-party system
300
The Louisiana Purchase, annexation of Texas, the Mexican Cession, and the Gadsden Purchase all had this effect
What is they all led to the US achieving Manifest Destiny
300
One way newly freed African Americans, as well as poor white Southerners, made a living was through this system of land rental for farming
What is sharecropping
400
This economic policy was imposed on the colonies by Britain - it forced the colonies to trade only with Britain and also required America to export its raw materials to Britain
What is mercantilism
400
This constitutional provision allows the government to do what is "necessary and proper" to carry out its power
What is the elastic clause
400
George Washington urged Americans in his Farewell Address to remain _______; in other words, to not get involved in foreign alliances
What is neutral
400
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horace Greeley, Harriet Tubman, and Abraham Lincoln were all this word, which means someone who is opposed to slavery
What is an abolitionist
400
The Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) were passed to achieve equal rights for this group
What is African Americans
500
According to the Declaration of Independence, the fundamental purpose of a government is to...
What is to protect people's natural rights
500
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution are called
What is the Bill of Rights
500
This import tax is designed to protect domestic industry and jobs
What is a (protective) tariff
500
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all dealt with this controversial issue of the time
What is the expansion of slavery into new territories
500
African Americans Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois believed that the best way to achieve equality for blacks was to through
What is education
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