Origins of the American Nation
What movement that was promoted by thinkers like Montesquieu, believed that human nature operated according to natural laws and that we can use reason & logic to create laws?
The Enlightenment
What territorial acquisition effectively doubled the size of the United States in 1803?
The Louisiana Purchase
Settled in 1820, this agreement determined how states would enter the Union as slave or free state, in order to maintain balance in the Congress.
The Missouri Compromise
Spanish for “Conqueror”; the men who led the expeditions to conquer America
Conquistador
Amongst his many accomplishments including President and foreign diplomat, Thomas Jefferson's greatest literary accomplishment is usually considered to be writing what document?
The Declaration of Independence.
Name the first lasting settlement in America (founded in 1607)
Jamestown
Which document written before the Constitution, formed the framework for our national government?
The Articles of Confederation
This 1794 invention helped process the chief agricultural product of the South much faster than it has been before.
The cotton gin
A form of business organization in which many investors pool funds to raise large amounts of money for large projects
Joint stock company
The Bill of Rights was written in 1791 by which wartime president?
James Madison
We learned about 4 major Native American tribes that existed in Latin America, name 3 of them for $300.
Olmec, Mayan, Aztec and Inca
The Corps of Discovery was headed by which two men who eventually made it all the way to the Oregon coast?
Lewis and Clarke
We learned about 4 reform movements last week, name 3, for $300.
Mormon, Temperance, Women's rights, Abolition of slavery.
To free an enslaved person
Emancipate
Which French author provided us with the idea of a social contract, that requires consent of the people to be governed.
Rousseau
This act, written in 1763, limited the expansion of settlers west.
Proclamation Act
The Great Compromise or (Connecticut Compromise) combined elements of both the ___________ Plan and __________ Plan.
Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan
Name the canal that opened in 1825, and the railroad (think Monopoly) that opened in 1827. (Both correct answers needed to win the points).
Eerie Canal and Baltimore and Ohio (BnO) Railroad
Implied powers
Powers not specifically listed in the Constitution but claimed by the federal government
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Where did 'the shot heard around the world' get fired, kicking off the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
What were the first two political parties in the United States called, spearheaded by Jefferson and Hamilton, respectively?
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
How many miles of telegraph cable were laid between 1844 and 1854. (I will accept and answer that is very close if not exact).
20,000 or somewhere between 18,000 - 22,000 miles of cable.
Define the difference between a Revenue Tariff and a Protective Tariff.
Revenue Tariff aims to raise money for the government, whereas a Protective Tariff seeks to protect an industry by making foreign goods more expensive.
This politician pushed for the nullification (repeal) of high tariffs which plagued his state, going so far as to argue for secession.
John C. Calhoun