Colonial & Foundational Concepts
Before European contact, Native Americans, despite developing complex systems of trade, architecture, and political organization, lacked this military technology that was common technology that was common in Europe.
What are guns, swords, or gunpowder
This 1803 land acquisition defied Thomas Jefferson's stated commitment to a strict interpretation of the Constitution
What is the Louisiana Purchase
Settlers in a territory were permitted to decide the issue of slavery through a majority vote under this proposal
What is popular soveriengty
This event in New England opposed the War of 1812 and ultimately lef to this dissolution of the Federalist Party.
This intellectual movement provided the idea that governments needed popular consent to rule legitimately
What is the Enlightenment
This rebellion was initiated by a group of farmers who felt most directly threatened by conflicts with American Indians.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
Alexander Hamilton was criticizing the diminished and contemptible nature of "petty states, with appearance only of union" in reference to this governmental structure.
What are the Articles of Confederation
This territory was gained most directly by the US going to war, which ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago.
What is the Mexican Cession
What two states had been determined to be considered free states under President Zachary Taylor, which was changed to be voted under popular sovereignty after the passing of the Compromise of 1850.
What are California and New Mexico
This 1765 gathering argued that it was inseparable essential to the freedom of a people that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own consent
What is the Stamp Act Congress
The primary religious group of authors of the Maryland Act of Toleration were trying to protect, as they felt threatened by the growing number of Protestant settlers.
Who are the Roman Catholics
Support for the War of 1812 was the strongest among this group who desired more territory from American Indians.
Who are frontier settlers
This application for statehood, submitted by a territory that drafted a constitution banning slavery, was the immediate reason political leaders felt the urgent need for the Compromise of 1850. (hint: its a state)
What is the application for statehood by California
This reform philosophy, which urged Americans to challenged conformity, focused on individual self-reliance and moral institution.
What is Transcendentalism
This 1754 conflict between British and French forces over the Ohio River Valley is considered the spark that ignited the Seven Years’ War.
What is the French and Indian War
This 1649 law in Maryland protected Christians who believed in Jesus Christ from being "troubled, molested or discountenanced" in respect of their religion, but punished blasphemy with death.
What is the Maryland Act of Toleration?
What is impressment
The insistence that slavery should be excluded from new territories to preserve the land for white settlers and free labor was the policy position advocated by this movement.
What is the Free-Soil moevement
This principle, famously argued by William Seward, was cited to justify restrictions on slavery, claiming it superseded the Constitution.
What is a "higher law" than the Constitution
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 secured the original territory of 1776 along with this contiguous expansion shown on the map
What is the Additional Territory (acquired by the Treaty of Paris)
The statement in the Stamp Act Congress Resolutions that "no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own Consent, given personally, or by their representatives," reflects this Enlightenment idea.
What is popular consent (or that governments needed popular consent to rule legitimately)?
Henry Clay's economic plan that used a tax "exclusively leveled at foreign industry" to protect American Industry and modify US foreign policy.
What is the American System (or tariff)
This was the core objective that Henry Clay and Daniel Webster shared in the debated surrounding the Compromise of 1850.
What is preserving the unity of the United States through negotiation
This element of continuity existed between the pre-1848 Missouri Compromise debated and the post 1848 Compromise of 1850 debated.
What is the effort to maintain the numerical balance between free states and slave states in the Senate
The British attempted to solve the problem of conflicts with American Indians, such as those that fueled the Paxton Boys in 1764, by establishing this. (hint: boundary)
What is a boundary between Indian lands and lands open for colonial settlement