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Potpourri Part Uno
Potpourri Part Deux
100
This was a law passed by Britain to force the colonists to pay taxes in order to house and feed the British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
100
This is what highest loyalty in political form looks like.
What is nationalism?
100
Also known as Mark Twain, he was a major American writer from Missouri.
Who is Samuel Clemens?
100
He was one of the leaders of the Sioux nation and became leader of the Sioux War between 1876-1877.
Who is Sitting Bull?
100
This was a wooden warship, planted with iron railroad rails and remained in Virginia.
What is Merrimack?
200
This was where the offenders of the Sugar and Stamp Acts were tried, had no juries and were presumed guilty.
What are Admiralty Courts?
200
This was a law that closed all trade for American goods to be shipped.
What is the Embargo Act?
200
He ran on the Republican ticket in the 1896 election and won the presidency while preaching a gold standard platform. He won again in 1900, but was assassinated in 1901.
Who is William McKinley?
200
This was done after the Civil War, where former landowners “rented” plots of land to African Americans and poor whites.
What is sharecropping?
200
These were Englishmen who were outcasts of their country and would work in the Americas for a certain amount of time before being free to go.
What is indentured servitude?
300
This was an organization that consisted of middle and upper class colonists who resisted the Stamp Act of 1765.
What are Sons of Liberty?
300
This the forcible enlistment of sailors becoming soldiers.
What is impressment?
300
He was a labor leader who helped organize the American Railroad Union.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
300
This was a legal document that allowed religious freedom in Maryland, protecting the Catholics from Protestant rage of sharing the land.
What is the Act of Toleration?
300
He was Robert E. Lee’s chief lieutenant and became the Confederate Commander after Lee.
Who is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson?
400
In 1772, this was started by Samuel Adams in Boston to spread propaganda and secret information via letters.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
400
This was a secret convention due to Federalist discontent in 1814 in Connecticut.
What is Hartford Convention?
400
He was the leader of the Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico and fought against the white men, who were trying to force his tribe off their land.
Who is Geronimo?
400
He was a senator from New York who was anti-slavery and Secretary of State when Lincoln was President. His nickname was “Higher Law” because he was very religious.
Who is William Seward?
400
He was the Secretary of War in 1860 and didn’t agree with Lincoln's decisions during the Civil War.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
500
This was an English legislative body that was instituted for the governing and economic control of the American colonies.
What is The Board of Trade?
500
This law allowed the President to sign papers until 12 midnight.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1801?
500
He was a minister who trumpeted the superiority of Anglo-Saxon civilization. He summoned Americans to spread their religion and their values to the backward people of the 3rd world.
Who is Josiah Strong?
500
She was a major feminist prophet during the late 19th and early 20th century. She published “Women and Economics” which called on women to abandon their dependent status and contribute more to the community through the economy.
Who is Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
500
This is an ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized government where people hold popular sovereignty.
What is republicanism?