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This term describes the idea that as long as the British Empire was making a profit from their colonies, they let the colonists do what they wanted in their everyday lives.
What is Salutary Neglect?
100
This was the first plan for a U.S. Government, which created a LIMITED national government and gave STATES most of the power.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
This idea argued that it was our "natural right" to expand west to the Pacific, which led to Westward Expansion into new territories.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Name the three S's that were the main causes of the Civil War.
What are Slavery, Sectionalism and State's Rights?
100
This compromise was created to deal with the issue of slavery and its impact on representation of southern states in Congress
What is the 3/5 Compromise
200
This imaginary border was created by the British to keep colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
200
This court case stated that the Supreme Court has the power to declare a law unconstitutional (Judicial Review!)
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
This geographical consideration had the greatest influence on President Thomas Jefferson’s decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory in 1803
What is to gain full control of the port of New Orleans/ access to the Mississippi River
200
This idea gave the POWER to the people in order to vote for or against slavery in Kansas. Hint: Led to Bleeding Kansas!
What is Popular Sovereignty?
200
George Washington called for and implemented this U.S. policy in order to stay out of participation in European wars
What is the policy of neutrality
300
Name two examples that are evidence of a Representative Democracy in the American colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, and/or Town Hall Meetings?
300
This Compromise created a Bicameral Legislation with a Senate and House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
This President, elected as the "common man", proved to be uncommon with unpopular programs such as the Spoils System.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
This Supreme Court case stated that slaves were considered property and not citizens of the United States.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
300
The Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, were intended to
What is win support for ratification of the Constitution
400
Thomas Paine wrote this book in order to persuade American colonists to support independence from Great Britain. GET THIS CORRECT AND GET A BONUS QUESTION!!
What is Common Sense?
400
This provision of the original Constitution allows Congress to enact legislation that adapts to changing circumstances
What is the Elastic Clause?
400
This Supreme Court case ruled in favor of Native Americans concerning the issue of the Indian Removal Act, but President Jackson did NOT uphold the ruling. GET THIS CORRECT AND GET A BONUS QUESTION!!
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
400
Name the three Reconstruction Amendments, and describe what each of them made legal or illegal. GET THIS CORRECT AND GET A BONUS QUESTION!!
What are the 13th Amendment (abolished slavery), the 14th Amendment (equal protection under the law), and the 15th Amendment (granted the right to vote for all male citizens)?
400
This was President Lincoln's primary goal leading up to the Civil War and during Reconstruction
What is preserving the union
500
This policy was used by the British to control the commerce/business of their American colonies
What is mercantilism?
500
Provide 3 examples of ways to limit the power of the government. (Hint: Keep the government from becoming to strong or abusing its power)
What are Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers and Federalism?
500
The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and The Kansas and Nebraska Act all dealt with this issue and led to the rise of this in the U.S
What is the issue of slavery in the territories and the rise of sectionalism
500
After the Civil War, many owners of large plantations in the South responded to the loss of enslaved labor by creating a system of
What is sharecropping and tenant farming
500
The division of power between the states and the national government is called
What is Federalism?