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100

The President responsible for the Alien and Sedition Acts

John Adams

100

Known as the War for Independence

American Revolution

100
Planted tobacco at Jamestown

John Rolfe

100

Established the principle of Judicial Review

Marbury v. Madison

100
The year slavery began in the colonies

1619

200
The President who created the Embargo Act and restricted trade with Europe

Thomas Jefferson

200
Famous for battles such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Bull Run

Civil War

200

Commander of the Continental Army 

George Washington

200
Decided that federal law overpowered state laws

Gibbons v. Ogden

200

Loyalty to your region instead of the whole country

Sectionalism

300

The President who created the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery in the Confederacy during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

300

The Massacre at Fort Loudoun occurred during this war

French and Indian War

300

Wrote the Emancipator

Elihu Embree

300

Chief Justice ruled that states could not prevent the create of national banks within their borders

McCulloch v. Maryland

300

As immigration increased, this group increased in the United States

Nativists

400

The President who vetoed the Tenure of Office Act

Andrew Johnson

400

The major cause of this war was boundary disputes and the annexation of a new state

Mexican American War

400

Created the Constitution of the United States of America

James Madison

400

This case increased sectionalism between the North and South prior to the Civil War

Dred Scott v. Sandford

400

What document does the below quote come from... "...government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"

Gettysburg Address
500

The President who vetoed the renewing of the Second Bank of the United States

Andrew Jackson

500

This war ended without a winner and returned everything back to the way it was before

War of 1812

500

Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

500

"The act of the Legislature of Georgia passed 22d December, 1830, entitled "An act to prevent the exercised of assumed and arbitrary power by all persons under pretext of authority from the Cherokee Indians"

 

The quote above describes what court case

Worcester v. Georgia

500

Name the document that this quote comes from... "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."

Constitution