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Prevailing economic philosophy of the 1600s that held that colonies existed to serve the mother country. The world's wealth was limited
What is mercantilism?
100
Tightly controlled empire in the Americas, 1400s and 1500s
What is New Spain?
100
California is admitted as a free state, New Mexico and Utah territories would be decided by popular sovereignty, and a fugitive slave act is passed under this large piece of legislation
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
These individuals received immigration passage and fees in returns for a number of years at labor on behalf of a planter or a company; white servants
What are indentured servants?
100
This strategy employed by Winfied Scott called for naval blockades and taking control of the Mississippi River
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
Series of acts passed by British parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party, closing the port of Boston to all trade, increasing the power of the royal governor at the expense of the legislature, and allowed British officials accused of crimes to be tried elsewhere
What are the Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts?
200
Preacher of the Great Awakening who emphasized personal religious experience, predestination, and dependence of man upon God
Who is Jonathan Edwards
200
Rivalry between France, Britain and various Native American tribes over the land in the Ohio Region; George Washington first appears as an able military leader here
What is the French and Indian War?
200
Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine that called for immediate independence from Britain
What is Common Sense
200
This act of Congress distributed land into townships and set aside a section of each township for public education
What is the Northwest Land Ordinance of 1787?
300
Americans who advocated centralized power and constitutional ratification
Who are Federalists?
300
This man proposed the federal assumption of state debts, the establishment of a national bank, and the federal stimulation of industry through excise taxes and tariffs.
Who is Alexander Hamilton
300
Only legislation passed to limit immigration of any one group of people; passed after building of the railroad in California
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
Jefferson employed the presidential power of treaty making to make this purchase. His actions in 1803, however, are seen by many as questionably constitutional
What is the Louisiana Purchase
300
This was a period of religious revivalism between the 1790s to 1840s; center of the movement is primarily in upstate New York
What is the Second Great Awakening
400
Sioux natives wished to practice a dance that they believed would free their lands, rid them of whites, and lead to prosperity, but this plan frightened white settlers. Considered the last battle of the Indian Wars. Policy towards Native American groups is eventually codified into the Dawes Severalty Act
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
400
This tariff bill with higher import duties for many good bought by Southern planters was hated by John C. Calhoun; he believed that a state could void a federal law. Andrew Jackson drafts the Force Bill to make South Carolina comply with this federal law. This is the first stirring of secession in the United States
What is Tariff of Abominations
400
This man's newspaper, The Liberator, shared his views that slaves should be immediately emancipated
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
The document, written at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, declared that women should receive equal treatment to that of men
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
400
Names of some of the individuals who stood up against traditional Protestant religions in the colonies
What is Who is Anne Hutchinson, Lord Baltimore, Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, Quakers?
500
This law granted 160 acres of government land to anyone who would farm it for at least 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
500
Describe the differences between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment
What is freeing slaves in rebelling territories vs. freeing anyone from the institution of slavery
500
This court case paved the way for judicial review, which gave courts the power to declare statutes unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison
500
Consisted mostly of farmers, who met in Nebraska and wrote their Omaha platform. This group wanted free and unlimited coinage of silver, graduated income tax, and government ownership of railroads
What is the Populist Party?
500
Group of American landscape painters that depicted important images
What is Hudson River School