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First American born Catholic saint
Who is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton?
a tax on legal documents, such as diplomas and wills
What is the Stamp Act?
God, Gold, and the Glory of Spain
What are the reasons for Christopher Columbus' sailing to the New World?
Pamphlet written to persuade colonists to join the fight for independence.
What is Common Sense?
Farmers, slave-holders, uneducated, Westerners were supporters of this candidate for Presidency in 1824 and 1828.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
American officer and infamous traitor of the American Revolution
Who is Benedict Arnold?
Known as the Society of Friends; a religious group that rejected all doctrine and stressed the personal guidance of the Holy Spirit
Who are the Quakers?
Which colonizing group tended to settle along rivers and lakes, never making large settlements
Who are the French?
Resulted in the closing of the Boston port, among a host of other punishments.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Mexican-American War best describes which concept about land expansion?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Spanish conquistador and conqueror of the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortez?
A governmental restriction on trade
What is an embargo?
Settlement that was nearly destroyed because of lazy settlers and hostile Natives, until finally a good leader emerged.
What is Jamestown?
What first Constitution of the United States, that contained many weaknesses.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Uncle Tom's Cabin argued that slavery what not just a political issue, but also...
What is a moral issue?
Virginian planter who popularized tobacco
Who is John Rolfe?
Quasi-religious movement of writers and philosophers that stressed feelings over reason, the innate goodness of man, and the unity of all creation
What is transcendentalism?
Early American document that outlined the basis of a simple representative government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Thomas Jefferson applied this interpretation of the Constitution when he purchased the Louisiana Territory.
What is loose construction?
What political concept led to the nullification of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Politician from Connecticut known for his aid in organizing the legislative branch.
Who is Roger Sherman?
Demarcation line through the Atlantic Ocean authorizing the colonization of the New World by Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Native tribe that always allied itself with the English.
Who are the Iroquois?
Marbury vs. Madison established this guiding principle for the Supreme Court.
What is judicial review?
Slavery was abolished this city as part of the Compromise of 1850
What is Washington, DC?