a series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States.
What is the Alien and Sedition Acts?
100
The practice of winning candidates rewarding their supporters with government jobs.
What is the spoils system?
100
a 19th century religious movement in which individual responsibilities for seeking salvation was emphasized.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
an amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that non of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
What is secession?
200
an 1803 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to abolish legislative acts by declaring them unconstitutional. (Judicial Review)
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
an 1819 agreement in which Spain gave over control of the territory of Florida to the United States.
What is the Adam-Onis Treaty?
200
a belief that married women should restrict their activities to their home and families.
What is cult of domesticity?
200
a slogan used in the 1844 presidential campaign as a call for the U.S. annexation of the entire Oregon Territory.
What is "Fifty-four Forty or Fight"?
200
This party favored nativism, and used secret handshakes and passwords.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
300
the 1803 purchase by the United States of France's territory-- extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
the marches in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory, with thousands of Cherokee dying on the way.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
a rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue.
What is the gag rule?
300
the founder of the Mormon Church (church of the Latter-day Saints). Was killed by an angry mob of people as he was trying to lead his people West.
Who is Joseph Smith?
300
a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that depicted the live of slaves and enraged Northerners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
the placing of interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
400
a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
a philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
What is transcendentalism?
400
Battle between the Texans and Mexicans that led to Texan victory and official Texan independence.
What was the battle of San Jacinto River?
400
A Northern Democrat who advocated making peace with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is a Copperhead?
500
Native American leader of the Shawnee and became an ally of the British in the War of 1812.
Who is Tecumseh?
500
a protective tariff designed to aid American industries.
What is the Tariff of 1816?
500
A slave and gifted preacher who believe he had been chosen to lead his people out of slavery. He attacked plantations, and killed 60 whites during his rebellion.
Who is Nat Turner?
500
an 1853 purchase by the United States of land from Mexico, establishing the present U.S.-Mexico boundary.