This was the first direct or internal tax that Parliament passed on the colonies. They responded by boycotts and mob violence!
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Early Supreme Court Chiefe Justice who strengthened the court (judicial review) and the National Government through his key rulings limiting the actions of the States.
Who was Chief Justice John Marshall?
100
In the 1820 Compromise, this state was admitted as a free state and this one was admitted as a slave state.
What is Maine (free) and Missouri (slave)?
100
People who wanted to see slavery ended immediately.
Who were abolitionists?
100
After his election in 1860, South Carolina became the first State to secede from the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
This was the horrific long trip that the slaves had to endure from Africa to the slave markets in the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
These were two long lasting benefits of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. (Name one)
What is an orderly process for new states to join the Union on an equal footing with the older states? What is preventing the spread of slavery with simple legislation?
200
This belief provided much of the justification and energy behind our westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
He was the president of the Southern Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
The Anti-Federalists were against the ratification of the new constitution for a variety of reasons, but most significantly they believed that the new constitution did not contain this.
What was a bill of rights to protect the liberties of the people?
300
Passed in 1689 and signed by William and Mary, the new King and Queen of England, this restated and wrote down many of the traditional rights that had been recently abused by the previous kings of England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
The Great Compromise was the key to allowing the Constitutional Convention to get past the large state/small state conundrum. How did it do it?
What is allowed for a two house legislature with one house--the lower--being representationally based and the upper house being an equal standing for all of the states?
300
These were the three main sectional leaders during the Antebellum period. (Name two out of the three)
Who are Daniel Webster (North), Henry Clay (West) and John C. Calhoun (South)?
300
The overall strategy of blockading the South, gaining control of important waterways and capturing the capital.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
300
The idea put forward by Stephan A. Douglas that the people in the territories themselves should decide whether or not slavery will be allowed.
What was popular sovereignty?
400
This English political thinker, who lived during the Glorious Revolution, greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson and the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
400
In his farewell address, President Washington urged his country to do these two things.
What is to stay neutral with regards to the problems of other countries and to avoid political factions or political parties?
400
These were very controversial because effective were used as a means to take money from one section of the country and spending it on internal improvements on another section of the country.
What is the use of protective tariffs?
400
This general was known for the "total war" he inflicted on the civilians in Georgia on his march to the sea.
Who was William T. Sherman?
400
Name two Federalists and two Anti-Federalists.
Who were Madison, Hamilton, Jay, John Adams (Federalists); Madison, Mason, Jefferson, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry (Anti-Federalists)?
500
This was the name given to the policy where England really did not pay much attention the North American colonies for about a hundred years.
What was Salutary Neglect?
500
This was Thomas Jefferson's main reservation about purchasing the Louisiana Territory.
What is he did not believe that the Constitution gave him the power to?
500
His work as editor of the Liberator raised awareness regarding abuses within the slave system that many in the North had not been previously exposed to.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
Towards the end of the war, these were the two main Union and Confederate generals.
Who were Robert E. Lee (CSA) and Ulysses S. Grant (USA)?
500
This was attached to a military spending bill during the Mexican-War and called for a complete ban on slavery in all of the new territory acquired as a result of that war.