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What infectious disease brought to America by the Spanish that devastated native populations?
Small pox
Opponents of the 1787 Constitution, they cast the document as antidemocratic, and feared encroachment on individuals' liberties in the absence of a bill of rights.
Anti-Federalists
What act put into law by Thomas Jefferson in 1807 that was the lowpoint of his presidency?
Embargo Act
Who’s Franklin Pierce?
A Democrat who won the election of 1852 over the Whigs
A business man that increased his power through by gaining control of the many different businesses.
Andrew Carnegie
Englishman who sponsored the failed attempt to establish an English colony at Roanoke was named?
Walter Raleigh
First American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress, which was not granted the power to regulate commerce or collect taxes.
Articles of Confederation
What was created on highways built by private companies to generate profit but were avoided by Americans?
Toll Roads
What sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory?
Bleeding Kansas
The first Act against monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What Spanish System to regulate and control Native Americans. The Spanish crown granted Spanish colonists a specific number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility?
Encomienda System
A battle between the Miami confederacy and the U.S. Army. British forces refused to shelter the routed Indians, forcing the latter to attain a peace settlement with the United States.
Battle of Fallen Timbers
What's a telegraph?
A system for transmitting messages from a distance.
Who was president thru the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
When was the Progressive Era?
During the early 1900s
What the first successful settlement in the Virginia colony founded in May, 1607.
Jamestown
What were narrative ballads that feature heroes and social bandits?
Corridos
What economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank and high tariffs?
American System
Economic liberalism that believes in unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy.
Laissez Faire
An ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and that is linkied to fundamental notion of fairness and cultural beliefs
Social justice
What was the practice where plantation owners in the colonies paid for people's voyages in exchange for a certain amount of year's work?
Indentured Servitude
Which party followed a strict interpretation of the constitution and favored a small government?
Democratic-Republicans
What’s the Missouri Compromise?
a effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries.
An influential banker and businessman who bought and reorganized companies.
JP Morgen
The movement of over 300,000 African Americans from the rural South into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920.
Great migration