Politics
Government
Economics
Social
Migration
100

This President famously negotiated the Louisiana Purhcase

Thomas Jefferson

100

This Supreme Court case created judicial review:

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

100

Name the concept:
“A labor system forcing freedmen to pay off eternal debt working on their old plantations.”

Sharecropping

100

The most important preacher during the 2nd Great Awakening was:

Charles Grandison Finney

100

Name the term:
“the belief that white Americans have a God-given right to expand across the continental US”

Manifest Destiny

200

Finish the phrase:
“36 by 30 except for ______”

Missouri

(Missouri Compromise 1820)

200

The governing body in the Virginia colony founded in 1619 was known as:

House of Burgesses

(BONUS: Name one of the other 2 groups of people that arrived in 1619)

200

This major waterway boosted the early 19th century US economy by connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River:

Erie Canal

200

Define Social Darwinism

"Survival of the fittest"


(Laws of nature apply to human society, rich are biologically superior, poor will adapt or die)
200

Once this was completed in 1869, moving Westward became much easier and faster

Transcontinental Railroad

300

This man declared: “that is [Chief Justice] Marshall’s decision, now let him enforce it.”

Andrew Jackson

(BONUS: Which Which Supreme Court case was he referring to?)

300

Explain the significance of the Northwest Ordinance

Created territory system,
path for future statehood,
outlawed slavery in NW territories

300

A high US tariff is also known as:

Protective tariff

300

Name the concept:
“Supporting the immediate emancipation of slaves”

Militant abolitionism

300

Which activist was the of the most significant "conductor" of the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

400

Name 3 of the 5 parts of the Compromise of 1850

1. CA as free state
2. NM under popular sovereignty
3. No slave trade in DC
4. Fugitive Slave Act
5. TX debt forgiven

400

What idea was first proposed in the KY/VA Resolves and supported in Exposition & Protest?

states’ right of nullification

400

Name 1 cause of the
Panic of 1873

1. Withdrawal of greenbacks
2. FedGov not taking silver
("Crime of 73")
3. Railroad speculation,
4. Fires in Chicago & Boston

400

Name the concept:
“American women should be educated so they can teach their sons democratic values”

Republican motherhood

400

Describe the reason for settlement for any two of the 13 colonies
(New England, Middle, South)

New England: religious “freedom”

Middle Colonies: religious freedom

South: money
(except for Maryland)

500

Jacksonian Democracy was more radical than Jeffersonian Democracy because of its support for:

The common man

500

To what extent was Alexander Hamilton in favor of democratic government by the people?

Not at all

(“Mob rule”, Hamilton’s proposal @ Convention, Federalist Party ideals, Funding & Assumption)

500

The immediate effect of Jackson’s attack on the Bank of the US was:

Expansion of credit & speculation (by "pet banks"), inflation

500

What was the main idea of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise

African-Americans should stay in the South (& deal with racism) to learn trade skills, gain economic independence, and slowly earn the recognition of white Southerners

500

Name two laws or Supreme Court cases that impacted Chinese immigrants in the US

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Page Law (1875)
Geary Act (1892)
US vs. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
Fong Yue Ting v. US (1893)