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One Nation Under God
You Say You Want a Revolution
Mystery Documents
Great Sandwich Makers in American History
Sectional Tension
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These people left the Church of England and eventually settled at Plymouth.
Who are the Pilgrims?
100
A tax on most paper products and documents in the colonies levied by Great Britain in 1765. It was largely ignored and nullified.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What is the "Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson?
100
She was banished from Massachusetts Bay colony for questioning religious leaders and claiming that God spoke directly to her.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
100
He and his sons killed five men in the Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas in 1856
Who is John Brown?
200
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were 'New Light' preachers of this movement.
What is the Great Awakening?
200
His pamphlet Common Sense, was widely read in the colonies and called for American independence from England.
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
What is "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine?
200
She was a leading reformer of prisons and asylums in the 19th century.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
200
The name given by Southerners to the Tariff of 1828 which they saw as unfair towards the economy of southern states.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
300
He founded Rhode Island, where he allowed complete religious freedom.
Who is Roger Williams?
300
The term for England's treatment of the colonies prior to the French and Indian War, when it ended as the British government became more involved in the colonies.
What is Salutary Neglect?
300
"I was broken in body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!"
What is "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
300
This wife of a Founding Father encouraged her husband to 'remember the women' when creating the new nation.
Who is Abigail Adams?
300
He won the election of 1844 on the basis of his arguments for expansion and manifest destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
400
The earliest abolitionist society was formed by this group.
Who are the Quakers?
400
The first tax law put in place by the British in the colonies following the French and Indian War.
What is the Sugar Act?
400
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
What is "Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address" by Abraham Lincoln?
400
The idea that women should uphold the ideals of republicanism, in order to pass on republican values to the next generation through the education of their children.
What is Republican Motherhood?
400
His paper, "The Liberator," was a controversial voice of abolition before the Civil War.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
He is the most famous and successful of all of the preachers of the Second Great Awakening.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
500
He was one of the leaders of the Sons of Liberty, a delegate from Massachusetts at the First Continental Congress, and helped establish the Committees of Correspondance.
Who is Sam Adams?
500
"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world."
What is "A Model of Christian Charity" by John Winthrop?
500
This president blamed the death of his wife Rachel on the mudslinging tactics of his opponents during the election of 1828.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
Massachusetts senator who voiced his support for the Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act in his famous "Seventh of March" speech, drawing the anger of abolitionists in his home state.
Who is Daniel Webster?