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100
First act of American protest against "taxation without representation"
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
Three branches of government.
What are Executive, Legistlative, Judicial?
100
Jefferson bought this for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
The attack on this fortress started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
President known as "Old Hickory"
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
First battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
200
First 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Incident in which French government officials tried to bribe Americans out of $250,000 and demanded a large loan.
What is the XYZ Affair?
200
This law was part of the Compromise of 1850 and said Northerners had to help captured escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
Philosopher whose concept of natural rights greatly influenced the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
300
Agreement that combined elements of the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention.
What is The Great Compromise?
300
Forced removal of Cherokees from lands in East.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
The signing of this by Lincoln changed the focus of the war from states' rights to slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Slave who sued for his freedom because he had been taken into free areas.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
Tax on newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
A 2-house legislature.
What is "bicameral"?
400
The goals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
What is 1) Find a waterway to the Pacific; 2) Report back on plants, animals, and geography of the area; 3) Make contact with Native Americans
400
The bloodiest day of the Civil War was at this battle.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
Abolitionist known as the Black Moses.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
Final battle of the American Revolution in which Cornwallis was forced to surrender.
What is Yorktown?
500
To prevent one branch of government from gaining too much power, the Constitution sets up a system of these.
What are checks and balances?
500
The Texans were defeated by this general at this former mission.
Who is Mexican General Santa Ana and what is the Alamo?
500
The Civil War was officially ended by this general's surrender at this odd-sounding town.
Who is General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse?
500
Women's rights advocates who organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights meeting.
Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?