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100
Radical protestants searching for "inner-light"
What are Quakers?
100
Intellectual movement headed by thinkers who believed all problems could be solved using human reason
What is the Enlightenment?
100
First president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
100
Thomas Jefferson did this to reach the Pacific.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This method of travel was cheaper to build + provided faster transportation than the steamboat.
What is the Railroad?
100
This image best depicts this historic event
What is the California Gold Rush?
100
Issued by Lincoln to free the enslaved people in the rebelling states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
The founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
What are Puritans?
200
Self-governing agreement to form a government and obey its laws
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
Colonial government modeled their own two-house legislature off of this system
What is the British Parliament?
200
The group the Bill of Rights derives its power from
Who are the People?
200
This comic demonstrates American's reaction to this act.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
200
This man invented interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
The victors of the Mexican-American war
Who are the Americans?
200
Loyalty to the interests of one region or section
What is sectionalism?
200
Document ordering colonial settlers to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
The journey enslaved people were forced to take across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America
What is the Middle Passage?
300
Parliamentary acts passed in Boston in response to Colonial rebellion. (ex. harbors closed, governor power increased, warships + troops sent to Boston)
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
This document focuses on individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
People were shocked Jefferson purchase of the Louisiana Territory because of his massive opposition to this.
What is big government?
300
the practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications
What is the Spoils System?
300
This territory was founded as buffer zone to protect towns + mines from Mexico.
What is Texas?
300
During the civil war, the Union had this advantage over the Confederacy?
What is Industrial Capacity?
300
Belief that God wanted all of North America to belong to the United States
What is the Manifest Destiny
400
The way it is widely believed the first indigenous people came to the American continent.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
400
Loosely organized groups formed to protest British taxes
What are Sons of Liberty?
400
This compromise was reached after southern states demanded more representation in congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
400
The first amendment was violated by these acts that declared immigrants + civilians cannot publicly discredit the government.
What are the Alien + Sedition Acts?
400
This drew a line north of which any new states would be free states and south of which any new states would be slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This popular trail was used by Pioneers moving west
What is the Oregon Trail?
400
This amendment made all persons born + naturalized in the United States citizens of the United States?
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
Members of a new nationalist political party who wanted a strong federal government
What are Whigs?
500
The first representative body in colonial America
What is the House of Burgess?
500
England allows colonies self-rule in exchange for cooperation with economic policies and assistance in empire’s wars with Spain and France
What is Salutary Neglect?
500
This prevents any one branch of government from controlling the other branches.
What is Checks + Balances?
500
"It is empathetically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
This quote summarizes this supreme court case
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
This cartoon best depicts this Jacksonian practice
What is the Spoils System?
500
This pioneer group left Illinois late + resorted to cannibalism after being snowed in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Who is the Donner Party?
500
This court decision made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
What is the Dred Scott case?
500
System in which power is shared by state and national governments
What is Federalism?