Colonial America
This 18th century movement challenged traditional structures of authority through reason and faith.
What is the (First) Great Awakening?
This failed constitution lacked executive power and sufficient power of taxation.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This president is associated with revolutionizing American democracy through increased voter participation and the spoils system.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
These laws limiting the freedom and economic opportunities of African Americans were prohibited by the 14th Amendment.
What are Black Codes?
This thinker emphasized simplicity, self-reliance and the divine value of nature.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This cash crop allowed the Chesapeake colonies to flourish economically and expand geographically.
What is Tobacco?
This agreement resolved the dispute between equal representation in Congress (New Jersey plan) and proportional representation (Virginia plan).
What is the "Great Compromise"?
This policy regulated slavery in the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase by prohibiting it north of the 36°30′ parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This law was included in the Compromise of 1850 and greatly empowered Southern slave owners to recapture slaves who had fled to the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law (Act)?
This man believed that the "Talented 10th" and social equality would uplift the African American community in the late 1800s.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
The goal of this policy was to increase Massachusetts Bay's declining church membership.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote these famous documents in an effort to persuade the American public to ratify the new Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
The name of Henry Clay's program of infrastructure improvements.
What is The "American system"?
This is the name for the enduring conflict between pro- and anti-slavery following the Kansas-Nebraska Acts. John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during it.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This "founding mother" was one of America's first feminist and reminded her husband to "remember the ladies" when considering the values to be written intro the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Abigail Adams?
This British economic policy of strictly regulating trade with its colonies (to ensure a positive balance of trade) was implemented through the Navigation Acts.
What is Mercantilism?
Federalist President John Adams sought to silence the voice of the rival Democratic-Republican party through these pieces of legislation.
What are the Alien & Sedition Acts?
This semi-secret political party was built upon the idea of nativism and strongly opposed Irish immigration
What is the Know-Nothing Party (American Party)?
This bill's reconstruction plan offered a stricter alternative to Lincoln's proposal and required at least 50% of southern voters to take oaths of loyalty.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This man was beaten during the Selma to Montgomery March and now represents Georgia's 5th district.
Who is John Lewis?
This person was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging gender roles and religious orthodoxy.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This later 18th century policy outlined the process for admitting new states into the union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
These THREE transportation developments greatly increased migration and trade with the West.
What are Turnpikes (roads), Canals, & Railroads?
(What is you need all 3?)
(What is, "No, you cannot get partial credit?)
This controversial deal resulted in the military's withdrawal from the south and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes winning the presidency.
What is the Compromise of 1877(Corrupt Bargain 2)?
This woman led a campaign to reform prisons and insane asylums during the Progressive Era.
Who is Dorothea Dix?