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This group settled in Pennsylvania to escape religious persecution in England.
Quakers
100
The Second Continental Congress picked this Virginian to lead their new army.
George Washington
100
Why did George Washington urge his fellow countrymen to avoid foreign entanglements?
Washington did not want the United States to be pulled into foreign wars.
100
What compromise established that enslaved people were not equal to free people when determining representation in congress.
The Three-Fifths Compromise
100
He published the North Star and gave speeches about his early life in slavery.
Frederick Douglass
200
Cecil Calvert, the Lord Baltimore, established Maryland as a safe haven for these believers.
Catholics
200
This battle proved to be the turning point of the war, because it convinced the French to support America against the British.
The Battle of Saratoga
200
Thomas Jefferson authorized the purchase of this territory, because he wanted control of both sides of the Mississippi River.
Louisiana Territory
200
This constitutional compromise settled a dispute between large and small states by creating a bicameral legislature.
The Great Compromise
200
This female reformer is most famous for her work improving conditions for people with mental illness.
Dorothea Dix
300
These people chose to relocate to Utah after facing intense religious persecution back east.
Mormons
300
Washington spent a winter here turning his army into an elite fighting force.
Valley Forge
300
How did Lincoln's death affect southern reconstruction?
The loss of Lincoln's leadership made the challenges of reconstruction more difficult.
and/or
Radical Republicans took control of reconstruction and treated the South harshly.
300
This amendment banned slavery in the United States.
The Thirteenth Amendment
300
He demanded the immediate emancipation of the slaves in his newspaper, The Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
400
Their ship, the Mayflower, landed at Plymouth after sailing to America seeking religious freedom.
The Pilgrims
400
How did Thomas Paine's Common Sense affect the revolutionary movement?
It inspired many to join the patriot cause.
400
When Andrew Jackson lost the Election of 1824, his followers broke with the Democractic-Republicans and created this new political party -
Democratic Party
400
"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned or stripped of his rights or possessions...except by lawful judgement of his equals..." (- Magna Carta 1215)
What political idea was influenced by this provision of Magna Carta?
Due Process of Law
400
He was the first African American elected to serve in the United States Congress.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
500
He was expelled from Massachusetts after a dispute with the church and established Rhode Island Colony as a place of religious toleration.
Roger Williams
500
How won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading the U.S. Navy in victories over the British during the Revolution.
John Paul Jones
500
What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
The Monroe Doctrine announced that the Western Hemisphere were off limits to further colonization and that the United States would resist interference in Latin America.
500
The constitutional principle of Judicial review originated with this Supreme Court decision -
Marbury v. Madison
500
She highlighted inequalities in the treatment of men and women in The Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton