The crop that became the staple of life in most North American Native American societies
corn
England passed the Intolerable/Coercive Acts in response to
Boston Tea Party
This case represents the Supreme Court's first use of the principle of judicial review
Marbury v Madison
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
manifest destiny
New immigrants were likely to receive support from what type of political organizations?
political machines
At the time, the greatest controversy emerging after the Spanish-American War was over
The Philippines
For subsistence, native tribes of the High Plains relied in large part on
bison
Author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
He had the idea for the "American System"
Henry Clay
Polk's campaign promise to gain exclusive title to the Oregon Territory.
"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"
This was a proposal that African Americans emphasize making economic progress over the quest for political and social equality
Atlanta Compromise
The destruction of which American ship directly resulted in the Spanish-American War?
USS Maine
The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France was
fur trapping
Deism, Rationalism, Social Contract and the idea of Natural Rights were all outgrowths of which intellectual movement?
the Enlightenment
What did the Missouri Compromise seek to accomplish?
Maintaining the balance between free and slave states
Which of the following was NOT Mexican territory in 1825?
a. Oregon
b. California
c. New Mexico
d. Texas
Oregon
Unlike Booker T. Washington, he said that African Americans should fight for full social equality rather than accept abuse and segregation
W.E.B. DuBois
Which event most directly brought the United States into the First World War?
Germany’s use of unrestricted submarine warfare
The laws passed by England to strictly regulate colonial trade according to mercantilist philosophy were called
Navigation Acts
The United States' first constitution
The Articles of Confederation
He successfully defended New Orleans from the British after a treaty had been signed officially bringing an end to the War of 1812
Andrew Jackson
Which state was admitted to the country as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
California
This case said that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional
Plessy v Ferguson
He declared that we must "make the world safe for democracy."
Woodrow Wilson
The dissatisfaction of Virginia farmers with the colonial governor who failed to endorse their desire to attack nearby American Indian settlements led to
Bacon's Rebellion
The idea that mothers were responsible for instilling good citizenship values in children
republican motherhood
The original prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was
Joseph Smith
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by
popular sovereignty
“We shall not answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
William Jennings Bryan
In the United States Senate, the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles was the
League of Nations