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American Themes
The Courts
200

Crop that supported economic development and social diversification among societies in present-day Mexico and the American Southwest

What is Maize, or corn?
200

This country, one of the three top colonizing countries, used trade alliances and intermarriage with American Natives to acquire furs and other products to export to Europe.

Who is France? 

200

This law was caused by British taxation on paper without colonial consent.

What is the Stamp Act?

200

This speech, written at the Seneca Falls Convention, promoted women's suffrage and equality.

What is the Declaration of Sentiments?

200

First identity created solely in the colonies

Religion moves you, The Great Awakening

200

The Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional decisions.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

400

Indigenous societies in the Great Basin and the Western Great plains responded to lack of natural resources developing these types of societies

What are nomadic societies?

400

Lack of indentured servants, abundance of land, lack of effective means to enslave natives, and growing European demands for goods led to the emergence of this system.

What is the Atlantic Slave trade?

400

After the British defeat of the French, white--indian conflicts erupted as native groups sought to continue trading with some Europeans while resisting the encroachment of the British. Name two events that show white--indian conflict at the time.

What is Pontiac's Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763?

400

He was the author of the South Carolina Exposition,  which advocated the ideas of nullification and states tights. 

DAILY DOUBLE

Who is John C. Calhoun?

400

American Independence was fueled by the colonial elite as well as by grassroots movements that included laborers, artisans, and women, alongside ideals created during this mass movement in Europe

What is the Enlightenment?

400

“The Congress shall have the power… to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing Powers…”
(Article I, Section 8, Clause 18)

What is the Elastic Clause?

600

Spanish colonies used this system where Native labor was used to support plantation based agriculture and extraction of precious metals. 

DAILY DOUBLE

What is the encomienda system?

600

These colonies relied on the cultivation of tobacco, a labor intensive product based on indentured servitude, and African Chattel slavery. 

What are the Chesapeake Colonies?

600

Two documents that supported republican self-government based on the natural rights of people

What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense and Declaration of Independence? 

600

The nullification crisis in South Carolina attempted to nullify this.

What are the tariffs/ Black Tariff of 1832?

600

He wrote that the American individualism, inventiveness, and equality emerged from the American Frontier.

Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?

600

States can regulate interstate commerce.

What is Munn v. Illinois?

800

After Spanish and Portuguese colonization, there was a debate led by these two men about the treatment of Natives and how "civilized" these groups were compared to Europeans.

Who are Juan de Sepulveda and Bartolome de las Casas?

800

 This war broke out as a direct result of  the execution of three Native men and the colonists continued desire for land and conversion.

What is King Phillips War?

800

Congress enacted this law to help with the admittance of new states, promote public education, and protect private property

What is the Northwest Ordinance?

800

In the 1830's, young unmarried women from New England would often work in these factories.

What are Lowell Mills?

800

Extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy

What is jingoism?

800

Slaves are property, and cannot be banned from the northern states

What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?

1000

In the northeast (US) these tribes developed mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economies that favored permanent villages

Who are the Iroquois and Algonquian?

1000

The successful native uprising against Spanish religious, economic, and political imposition in 1680

What is the Pueblo Revolt?

1000

This body, an original element of the US constitution, elects the president of the United States

What is the Electoral College?

1000

In addition to global competition and overproduction woes, western farmers were taken advantage by these considered to be their worst enemy

DAILY DOUBLE! (this means you are playing for double)

What are railroads?

1000

Term used for an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. This was popularized by President Nixon

What is the silent majority?

1000

Segregation is legal so long as facilities are separate, but equal.

DAILY DOUBLE

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?