Colonial Roots and Revolution (ch 1-7)
What 17th-century uprising in New Mexico saw the Pueblo Indians successfully drive out the Spanish colonists for over a decade?
What is the Pueblo Revolt (or Popé's Rebellion)?
What agreement established the process for admitting new states from the Northwest Territory and barred slavery there?
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production in the South and inadvertently boosted the demand for slavery. (Ch. 9)
What is the cotton gin?
Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828 partly due to the expansion of this, which allowed nearly all white men, regardless of property ownership, to vote.
What is universal white male suffrage (or universal suffrage for white males)?
This system of labor was practiced on smaller farms and involved the master giving a group of slaves relative autonomy to perform a specific job, after which they were done for the day. (Ch. 12)
What is the task system?
What religious movement swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, led by figures like Jonathan Edwards?
What is the Great Awakening?
This 1794 rebellion in Pennsylvania was triggered by a federal tax and demonstrated the new national government's ability to enforce its laws.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
What term describes the network of roads, canals, and other transportation improvements advocated by Henry Clay to foster national economic growth? (Ch. 9)
What is the "American System"?
The Force Act was passed after South Carolina challenged the federal government's authority to enact the Tariff of Abominations, leading to this political crisis.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
What was the term for the widespread, deep-seated belief that slavery was a positive good and a natural state for African-Americans? (Ch. 12)
What is the paternalist ethos (or the defense of slavery as a "positive good")?
This pamphlet, published in January 1776 by Thomas Paine, argued forcefully for American independence.
What is Common Sense?
Which early political faction, led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, believed in strict construction of the Constitution?
What are the Democratic-Republicans?
The Monroe Doctrine (1823) declared that the United States would oppose any further efforts by European powers to colonize land where? (Ch. 9)
Where is the Southern Hemisphere (or Americas, South America, Latin America)
This political party emerged in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson, advocating for government-led economic development.
What is the Whig Party?
This famous 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia saw dozens of white southerners killed, leading to harsh new slave codes across the South. (Ch. 12)
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
What constitutional provision resolved the debate over how slaves would be counted for both representation and taxation? (Ch. 7)
What is the Three-fifths Clause (or Three-fifths Compromise)?
The Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison (1803) established the precedent of this power, which allows the Court to determine the constitutionality of laws. (Ch. 9)
What is judicial review?
This famous abolitionist edited the newspaper The Liberator and was one of the most uncompromising advocates for immediate emancipation. (Ch. 11)
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This infamous policy, formalized by the Indian Removal Act of 1830, led to the forced relocation of the Cherokee and other tribes.
What is Indian Removal (or the Trail of Tears)?
This informal but strong network of abolitionists and safe houses helped slaves escape from the South to freedom in the North or Canada. (Ch. 13)
What is the Underground Railroad?
The controversial Alien and Sedition Acts were passed during the presidency of this Federalist. (Ch. 7)
Who is John Adams?
This massive land deal in 1803 effectively doubled the size of the United States and was negotiated by Thomas Jefferson. (Ch. 9
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What 1848 gathering, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, is considered the start of the organized women's rights movement in the United States? (Ch. 11)
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
What major financial institution did Andrew Jackson effectively dismantle by vetoing its recharter in the "Bank War" of the 1830s?
What is the Second Bank of the United States (or the Bank of the U.S.)?
Which prominent former slave became a leading abolitionist orator and writer, publishing his influential autobiography in 1845? (Ch. 13)
Who is Frederick Douglass?