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This ended the French and Indian War and was signed in 1763.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Where Washington set up camp for the winter of 1777 where he lost a quarter of his men to disease, starvation, and freezing conditions?
What is Valley Forge?
This doctrine asserts that the people are the source of government power.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
In George Washington’s First Inaugural Address this is who he says is responsible for the success of the new nation?
Who are the citizens?
This made Manifest Destiny and westward expansion possible.
What is Transportation Innovations.
These were goals labor reformers hope to achieve?
What are Safer working conditions and higher wages?
As a result of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, the U.S. bought which state from Spain?
What is Florida?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reversed the precedent set in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was the first permanent English colony was in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
He was a prominent Presbyterian minister who helped draft the Articles of Confederation and sign ed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Witherspoon?
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
What is the Preamble?
The battle that Andrew Jackson won during the War of 1812 that actually took place after the war ended.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
In addition to Great Britain, Spain and the United States, this nation also originally claimed the Oregon Territory?
What is Russia?
This reformer believed in simplicity and economy and his actions influenced later reformers, including Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
He oversaw the military removal of many Indian Tribes in Georgia, Alabama, and Spanish Florida. Later, as President of the United States of America, he proposed the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This French nobleman is said to be the most quoted political philosopher by the men at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
The main issue associated with the Webster-Hayne Debates.
What is Federal power versus state sovereignty?
This document was an agreement among the men to create a government. It helped establish the idea that the people create government based on consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He was the first foreigner to be granted honorary United States citizenship. Upon his death, the United States sent American soil to his gravesite.
Who is Marquis de LaFayette?
Provides that the President must give Congress information on the State of the Union and recommend to Congress measures he thinks necessary.
What is Article II, Section 3?
This doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The U.S. needed this to complete a transcontinental railroad using the shortest route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
His most famous work was an autobiography which opened the public’s eyes to the horrors of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
He was the first President of the United States whose father was also a President, and he later served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
The framers of the U.S. Bill of Rights took this almost verbatim from the English Bill of Rights of 1689?
What was "No cruel and unusual punishment."
He authored the South Carolina Exposition and Protest.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This English jurist authored Commentaries on the Laws of England widely regarded as the most complete and readable commentary on English law
Who is William Blackstone?
The Founding Father that drafted the Massachusetts Constitution and Declaration of Rights, served in the Continental Congress and was a member of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence?
Who is John Adams?
The lengthiest of the seven articles of the Constitution, which begins by providing that all legislative power is vested in a U. S. Congress which consists of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
What is Article 1, Section 1?
This French historian and political scientist wrote Democracy in America, predicting that democratic institutions would replace the aristocratic governments of Europe.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
To map the territory and find a water route to the Pacific Ocean was the primary goal of these explorers.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This suffragist declared voting was “the right women needed above every other”.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
He resigned the office of Governor of Tennessee to live with the Cherokee. He was made a member of the Cherokee Nation and assisted the tribe with relocations following the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Sam Houston?
This is the most significant portion of the Northwest Ordinance?.
What is It prohibited slavery in the territories?
When President Lincoln was elected, this man traveled the country speaking out in favor of preserving the Union.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
He lived in Massachusetts and later founded the colony of Connecticut where he established a highly successful church in what is now Hartford, Connecticut. He aided in the adoption of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut in 1639. Believing in the principle of equality for all mankind, he is sometimes called “the father of American democracy.”
Who is Thomas Hooker?
This English philosopher argued for a new relationship between civil government and religion. His ideas formed one basis of the First Amendment, which prevented the establishment of a national religion and protected an absolute freedom of belief.
Who is John Locke?
“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
What is the Second Amendment?
He was president during Era of Good Feelings.
Who is James Monroe?
The treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
She focused her efforts on improving conditions in hospitals and prisons.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The law passed by Congress and signed by President Andrew Jackson, that resulted in the “Trail of Tears.”
What is The Indian Removal Act?
This allowed individuals to claim 160 acres of non-occupied land by paying a nominal fee and living on the land for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” is a quote made by this supporter of the Union and against the nullification of federal laws by states.
Who is Daniel Webster?
Also known as the Seven Years’ War in Europe, the French and some Native Americans fought together against the British and the colonists over control of parts of North America including the Ohio River Valley.
What is the French and Indian War?
He was the revolutionary who was a patriot spy and a “double agent” working for the United States during the American Revolution?
Who is James Armistad?
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
The case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Congress had the power to create a national bank?
What is McCulloch v. Maryland
He helped to describe the spirit of young America by illustrating a collection of life size American birds.
Who is John James Audubon?
These artists documented the natural beauty of America with vast painted landscapes.
Who are Thomas Cole and Asher Durand?
Sam Houston was elected governor of this state in 1859. He was later removed from office after refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy after the state seceded from the Union.
What is Texas?
This was created to help formerly enslaved persons with jobs and education.
What is The Freedmen's Bureau?
He hoped to capture weapons and provide arms to enslaved persons in order to lead an uprising.
Who is John Brown?