Revolution
Constitution
Jacksonian Era
Reform Movements
Civil War and Reconstruction
100
This 1765 British law required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act
100
What are the 3 branches of government and what are each of their jobs?
Bonus Points: What constitutional Principal is this?
Legislative - Law Making, the House and Senate make up Congress
Judicial - Judge the laws, Courts, Supreme Court
Executive - Enforces the Laws, President
Separation of powers.
100
What state threatened to leave the nation during the nullification crisis?
Bonus Points if you know what was that states senator during the time.
What is South Carolina
Who is John C. Calhoon.
100
Who fought to rehabilitate prisoners and to improve conditions for the mentally ill?
Who is Dorothea Dix
100
This act helped by the great Henery Clay, Made it so that slavery could not spread above the 36 30 line.
Bonus Points, what is the other state that joined the nation as a free state.
What is the Missouri Comprimise
What is Maine
200
This group of men lead the Boston Tea Party.
Bonus points for identifying the leader of this group.
What is the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams
200
This constitutional principle means that the government’s power comes from the people, who vote for their leaders.
What is Popular Sovereignty
200
This political cartoon represents what aspect of westward expantion?
What is Manifest Destiny.
200
What reform movement wrote the declaration of sentements
What is the Womwns rights movement
200
What compromise allowed california to join and allowed for popular sovereignty to be used to determine wether slavery could spread to utah and new mexico
What is the compromise of 1850.
300
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine argued that the American colonies should break away from British rule.
What is Common Sense
300
This constitutional principle allows each branch of government to limit the power of the other branches.
What are Checks and Balances
300
A newly elected president replaces many government workers with people who supported his campaign.
What is the Spoils System
300
This movement tried to stop people from drinking alcohol
What is temperance
300
This Act lead to the eventual begining of the civil war and revoked the missouri compromise.
Bonus Points: What is the name of the fight that would lead to sectional conflicts.
What is the Kansas Nabraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas.
400
What was the document written in 1776.
Bonus points for identifying who wrote it.
What is the Declaration of Independance
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
400
What constitutional Principle makes all people follow laws, including leaders.
What is limited government
400
This law passed in 1830 forced many Native American tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
Bonus Points for what the name of the treck was called.
What is the Indian Removal Act
What is the Trail of Tears.
400
What is the name of the News paper written by a former slave. What movement is it associated with.
Bonus Points what is his name
What is the North Star
What is Abolitionist
Who is Fredrick Douglas
400
Put these events in order.
1. Appatamox Court House
2. Vicksburgh
3. Fort Sumpter
4. 13th Amendment
Bonus Points if you can name the Union's plan to take over the confederacy.
1. Fort Sumpter
2. Vicksburgh
3. Appatamox Court House
4. 13th Amendment
What is the Anaconda Plan
500
What was the war that began taxes on the Colonists that led to the Revolutionary War?
Bonus points for identifying the law that made it so that the colonists could not pass the Appalachian Mountains after this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
What constitutional Principal divides the government into state and country governments, this same principal would be reason for the civil war.
What is federalism
500
What event happened that would cause the founding of California.
Bonus points for identifying the immigrant group that most often inhabited California.
What is the 1949 gold rush.
Who are Chinese Immigrants
500
What reform movement did this quote come out of?
"It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize thae beauty areound us, The question is not what you look at but what you see"
Bonus points for who said it
What is Trancendentalism
Who is Henry David Therou
500
Name 3 things that slowed the progress of African Americans during Reconstruction.
Black codes, Jim Crow Laws, Plessy V. Ferguson, Johnson Reconstruction Plan, Grandfather clauses, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Voting Restrictions, Share Cropping.