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Really Early America
Revolutionary Times
Young Republic/Federalist Era
Pre Civil War
1800s
100
What is the name for someone who agreed to work for so many years in exchange for paying passage from Europe to the colonies?
What is an indentured servant?
100
This literature from Thomas Paine advocated complete independence from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
100
The major crisis during James Madison's presidency was...
What is the War of 1812?
100

Lincoln rose to prominence in politics by calling for this during the outbreak of hostilities in the Mexican-American War. 

What are spot resolutions?

100

Treaties and relocation, sometimes forced, was the policy through much of the 1800s towards what group in the US?

Who are Native Americans?

200
What was the name of the religious revival that occurred in the early American colonies?
What is the Great Awakening?
200
What were the terms of the Great Compromise, also called the Connecticut Compromise?
What is Senate is divided in equal amounts (2 senators per state) and the House of Representative is based on population of the state?
200
These were passed as a backlash to the Alien and Sedition Acts...they said that a state could declare a federal law invalid.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
200

What was the main cause for the Southern states to secede from the Union?

What is the election of 1860?

200

The policy of giving government jobs to peoples loyal to your party during the presidential campaign.

What is the spoils system?

300
The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of goods from the Americas to Europe. Which of the following was NOT something the Europeans learned from the Americas? A. maize (corn) B. rice C. peanuts D. potatoes E. tomatoes
What is rice?
300
In his farewell address, what advice did President George Washington give about foreign affairs?
What is stay neutral?
300
This early Supreme Court case said the states could not tax the federal govt. This SC case said the Supreme Court could decide on the constitutionality of the other branches--aka judicial review.
What is McCulloch vs. Maryland? What is Marbury vs. Madison?
300

Name several leading abolitionists.

Who are Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman...

300

This president threatened to send military force against South Carolina if they did not pay their import tariff taxes. 

Who is Andrew Jackson.

400
This man was banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he said church should be separated from the state. He was the founder of the colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Willams?
400
You support a strong central govt, want the nation to be strong enough to support an army, want a president to be the head of the country...would you be a Federalist or an Anti Federalist?
What is Federalist?
400
The end of this signaled the end of the Federalist Era in US History.
What is the War of 1812? The War of 1812 greatly reduced the power of the Federalist Party.
400

The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the concept of ____ ___ when deciding if states would be free or slave.

What is popular sovereignity?

400

This school of thought said that one could return to nature to experience true knowledge. It also advocated for self-reliance and even civil disobedience. 

What is transcendentalism?

500
What was the biggest complaint against the Acts the British Parliament was imposing on the colonists, such as the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, etc.?
What is "no taxation without representation?"
500
What act passed during John Adam's presidency gave the right to delay citizenship for 14 years and to deport anyone seen as an enemy to the US? It also prevented anything bad to be printed about the government and president in the press.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
Would an abolitionist have supported the Mexican American War?
What is false? No because Mexico said slavery was illegal but they did make exceptions for the Americans living there. An abolitionist wouldn't like the blanant grab for land and would be fearful it would be another slave state.
500

In this abolitionist novel, the cruelty of American slavery is depicted against the backdrop of family life. Name the book and the author. 

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin and Harriet Beecher Stowe?

500

This Compromise outlawed slavery north of the 36 30 parallel.

What is the Missouri Compromise?