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100
First city established by Europeans in what would eventually become the United States.
What is St. Augustine, FL?
100
This economic system was designed to increase gold reserves in the mother country by regulating colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
100
Country where pamphleteer Thomas Paine originated.
What is England?
100
Supreme Court Case that established the concept of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
Political party formed to support nativist policies in the United States
What is the "Know Nothings"?
200
This region was home to the Mound Builders and settled farming.
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
200
Puritan author of 'City on a Hill' speech.
Who is John Winthrop?
200
This philosophy elevated women to the role of "keepers of the national conscience" but also kept women out of public political debate and participation.
republican motherhood
200
This political party was established largely in opposition to Andrew Jackson's policies.
What is the Whig Party?
200
Slogan of the Free Soil Party? It has 4 parts- need at least 3
What is: "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men"?
300
Daily Double! Must get all three
The key crops of the Northeast, collectively known as the Three Sisters
beans, squash, corn
300
A massive Indian rebellion against Spanish control in the 1600s, it was successful at expelling the Spanish from the Southwest for several decades.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
300
The American Colonial Society established this colony as a destination for free Black Americans.
What is Liberia?
300
Daily Double! Two contributing factors to or causes of the War of 1812
What is
Impressment
Occupation of Ohio Valley Forts
Expansion/Desire to limit British influence
300
Policy developed by Gen Benjamin Butler in response to freedom seekers arriving at Union army lines during the Civil War, eventually adopted by Congress, which provided an early step toward Union Emancipation Policies.
What is 'contraband' or 'confiscation'?
400
This woman was both interpreter and consort to Hernán Cortés and is considered essential to his conquest of the Aztec Empire
Who is Malintzin or La Malinche? (ca. 1500-1529)
400
Daily Double! What were the TWO names of the Wampanoag chief who died at the conclusion of a war he led against the Puritans in order to preserve indigenous sovereignty and territory?
Who was King Philip or Metacom?
400
Daily Double! The 1st and 9th states to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware and New Hampshire?
400
Give TWO proposed Amendments from the Hartford Convention
(1) abolish the three-fifths compromise
(3) limit embargos to 60 days
two-thirds Congressional vote for: (2) admittance of new states (4) international trade restrictions, (5) war declarations
(6) remove eligibility of naturalized citizens to serve in Congress or in civil offices
(7) limit to a single Presidential term, and bar consecutive elections of any candidate from the same state
400
Daily Double! Identify the FOUR targets of John Wilkes Booth and conspirators' assassination plot.
Abraham Lincoln, Sec of State William Seward, VP Andrew Johnson, and Gen US Grant
500
This capital city of the Aztec Empire was built on an island in the middle of a lake, making it easy to defend and an engineering marvel of its time.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
Two specific examples of early democratic institutions or documents in the colonies, established between 1607 - 1754.
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
MA General Court
500
Name Alexander Hamilton used when to publish the Federalist papers he authored.
Who is Publius?
500
Daily Double! The three issues that sparked the response collectively known as the Monroe Doctrine
1) Russia's claims that their Alaskan territory extended to Alto California, then part of Mexico
2) The Holy Alliance rumored to be in discussions to help Spain retake colonies in the Americas
3) Britain's offer of an alliance with the US against #2
500
This man became the Black governor when he was appointed to serve after the LA governor was impeached.
Who is PBS Pinchback?
600
Author of this quote: "The cause for which the Christians have slain and destroyed so many and such infinite numbers of souls, has been simply to get, as their ultimate end, the Indians' gold of them, and to stuff themselves with riches in a very few days, and to raise themselves to high estates... owing to the insatiable greed and ambition that they have had, which has been greater than any the world has ever seen before."
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
600
Author of "You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers."
Who is John Smith (A Generall Historie of Virginia)
600
Author of this advice to Americans
“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.”
Who is George Washington? (Farewell Address)
600
Fill in the blank:
"We the Representatives of the people of the ______________, in Convention assembled in order to establish justice ensure tranquility, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging with humility and gratitude the goodness of the sovereign ruler of the Universe affording us an opportunity so favorable to the design and imploring his aid and direction in its accomplishments do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Government of the _________________"
What is the Cherokee Nation? (Cherokee Constitution, 1827)
600
Name the document:
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
What is the 14th Amendment?