What is the name for someone who agreed to work for so many years in exchange for paying passage from Europe to the colonies?
What is an indentured servant?
100
This literature from Thomas Paine advocated complete independence from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
100
The major crisis during James Madison's presidency was...
What is the War of 1812?
100
Lincoln was accused of tyranny during the Civil War because he suspended what in the border states?
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
100
Treaties and relocations were the government's policies through much of the 1800s towards what group in the US?
Who are Native Americans?
200
What was the name of the religious revival that occurred in the early American colonies?
What is the First Great Awakening?
200
What were the terms of the Great Compromise, also called the Connecticut Compromise?
What is Senate is divided in equal amounts (2 senators per state) and the House of Representative is based on population of the state?
200
These were passed as a backlash to the Alien and Sedition Acts...they said that a state could declare a federal law invalid.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
200
What was the main goal at the start of the Civil War?
What is restore the Union as quickly as possible?
200
This man was considered the Manifest President.
Who was James K. Polk?
300
The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of goods from the Americas to Europe. Which of the following was NOT something the Europeans learned how to cultivate from the Native Americans?
A. maize (corn)
B. rice
C. peanuts
D. potatoes
E. tomatoes
What is rice?
300
In his farewell address, what advice did President George Washington give about foreign affairs?
What is to stay neutral?
300
This Supreme Court case said the judicial branch could decide on the constitutionality of the other branches--aka judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
300
Name at least three leading abolitionists from the 1830s to the 1850s. Answers may vary.
Who are Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman...
300
This treaty officially put an end to the Mexican War in 1848.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
400
This man was banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he said church should be separated from the state. He was the founder of the colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Willams?
400
You support a strong central govt, want the nation to be strong enough to support an army, want a president to be the head of the country...would you be a Federalist or an Anti-Federalist?
What is a Federalist?
400
The end of this signaled the end of the Federalist Era in US History.
What is the War of 1812? The War of 1812 greatly reduced the power of the Federalist Party.
400
The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the concept of ____ ___ when deciding if states would be free or slave.
What is popular sovereignity?
400
Nat Turner led a major revolt in this state in 1831. It was also where John Brown was hanged in 1859.
What is Virginia?
500
What was the biggest complaint against the Acts the British Parliament was imposing on the colonists, such as the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, etc.?
What is "no taxation without representation?"
500
What act(s) passed during John Adams's presidency gave the right to delay citizenship for 14 years, and to deport anyone seen as an enemy to the US? It also prevented anything bad to be printed about the government and president in the press.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
Daily Double! Choose how much you are willing to wager before Amerikelly reveals the question.
What was the first state to ratify the Constitution?
500
What were the two major battles that were considered the turning points in the north and the south in 1863?
What were Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
500
This added territory in 1853 was purchased to make way for a railroad to pass through new southwestern territories. It completed the contiguous United States we have today.