(Pre-)
Colonial America
Colonial America
This 18th century movement challenged traditional structures of authority through faith.
(Double Points if you also list the movement's main leader)
Great Awakening
(George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards)
This president is associated with revolutionizing American democracy through increased voter participation and the spoils system.
(Double points for the name of the case he unconstitutionally ignored)
Andrew Jackson
(Worcester v. Georgia)
This amendment provided due process, citizenship, and equal protection under the law -- regardless of race
14th Amendment
This transcendentalist thinker emphasized simplicity, self-reliance and the divine value of nature. Preached civil disobedience to unjust laws.
Henry David Thoreau
This cash crop allowed the Chesapeake colonies to flourish economically and expand geographically.
(Double Points if you list the person credited with smuggling the crop to Jamestown)
Tobacco (John Rolfe)
This statement largely defined early U.S. foreign policy, announcing a (mostly) neutral stance towards Europe while warning them to stay out of American affairs.
(Double points for the name of the person who ACTUALLY wrote the statement.)
Monroe Doctrine
(John Q. Adams)
This policy regulated slavery in the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase by prohibiting it north of the 36°30′ parallel.
(Double points for the person who negotiated the bill through Congress.)
Missouri Compromise
(Henry Clay)
Lincoln used the 'victory' in this battle as momentum to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
(Double points for its other important effect)
Battle of Antietam
(Bye bye McClellan!)
This person was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging gender roles and religious orthodoxy.
Anne Hutchinson
The British policy of lax enforcement of parliamentary laws on the colonies, giving Americans a fair amount of autonomy in their early years
Salutary neglect
Hamilton, Madison, and Jay wrote these famous documents in an effort to persuade the American public to ratify the new Constitution.
(Double points for the name of the Madison's document that was concerned with 'Factions')
The Federalist Papers
(Federalist #10)
The system of manufacturing products with interchangeable parts and Henry Clay's program of internal improvements share this common name.
The "American system"
This is the name for the violent conflict between pro- and anti-slavery following the Kansas-Nebraska Acts.
(Double points for the name of the incident involving John Brown during the conflict.)
Bleeding Kansas
(Pottawatomie Massacre)
This abolitionist and leading voice of the radical Republicans was famously beaten with a cane on the senate floor.
(Double points for the other famous Radical Republican leader)
Charles Sumner
(Thaddeus Stevens)
The founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
(Double points for the name of his famous speech / vision for the colony)
John Winthrop
("City Upon a Hill")
This British legislation put a small tax on a variety of goods imported by the colonies, including glass and tea, to help pay the debt incurred by the French & Indian War.
Townshend Acts
This semi-secret political party was built upon the idea of nativism and strongly opposed Irish immigration
Know-Nothing Party / American Party
This reconstruction plan offered a stricter alternative to Lincoln's proposal and required at least 50% of southern voters to take oaths of loyalty.
Wade-Davis Bill
The TWO religious leaders most credited with launching the Second Great Awakening
Charles Finney and Lyman Beecher
This tribe is associated with Thanksgiving and the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history [adjusted for population].
(Double points for also naming the conflict)
Wampanoag
(King Philip's War)
Names of the Marshall Court cases that: 1. gave the Supreme Court the power of judicial review; 2. upheld the supremacy of federal government and constitutionality of a federal bank; 3. gave Congress the power to regulate interstate trade.
1. Marbury v. Madison
2. Gibbons v. Ogden
3. McCulloch v. Maryland
Name the three transportation developments that greatly increased migration and trade to the West during the market revolution.
1. Turnpikes/roads (National Road)
2. Canals (Erie Canal)
3. Railroads (Transcontinental railroad)
This controversial deal resulted in the military's withdrawal from the south and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes winning the presidency.
Compromise of 1877 / Corrupt Bargain 2
Founder of the controversial Oneida community
John Humphrey Noyes