It restricted colonies from trading with other countries. Only British ships could carry goods imported from Africa, Asia, and the non-British colonies of America into any port of the British empire.
What were the Navigation Acts?
100
It prohibited any English settlement west of the Appalachian mountains and required those already settled in those regions to return east in an attempt to ease tensions with Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
This was coined as Jackson's patronage system.
What is the spoils system?
100
A war fought between the North and South.
What is the Civil War?
100
This abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
200
Religious philosophy and movement that derives the existence and nature of God from reason and personal experience.
What is Deism?
200
This was the nation's first constitution. However, the document was limited because states held most of the power, and Congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage.
What are Articles of Confederation?
200
An organization that proposed to transport free blacks from the United States and settle them in Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
200
Some include the Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner's Rebellion, the Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas, and the Dred Scott Decision. However the immediate cause was the Battle of Fort Sumter.
What were the causes of the Civil War?
200
A derrogatory term used to describe a business leader using political means to achieve their ends.
What are robber barrons?
300
This was the first propiertary colony.
What is Maryland?
300
It consitsted of federal assumption of all debts, including state and federal debts. Along with this, he proposed the chartering of the U.S. bank to help restore American credit.
What is Hamilton's Financial Program?
300
This transportation method appeared in the early 1800s.
When did trains appear?
300
Garrison, Tubman, Douglass, and Stowe.
Who were some abolitionist leaders?
300
An organization of farmers who strove to regulate railway rates and storage fees charged by railroads, warehouses, and grain elevators through state legislation.
What is the Grange?
400
The most effective motivation to colonize was economic reasons. Driven by ideas of mercantilism, Britain hoped to find gold. However, this colony did not supply many precious metals. Its destruction was only prevented by becoming a tobacco producing colony.
Why did Britain colonize Virginia?
400
Treaty in which Spain recognized the right of Americans to navigate the Mississippi and use the New Orleans port.
What is Pinckney's Treaty?
400
Jackson resisted admitting this state into the Union. He feared a prolong debate over the admission of a slave state would ignite a divsive campaign issue that could cost the Democrats the next presidential election.
What was Jackson's opinion on the admission of Texas?
400
The slaves were freed in the rebellion states.
What was the immediate impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Religious doctrines preached by those who believed that the churches should directly address economic and social problems.
What is The Social Gospel?
500
This group embraced the revivals that spread through the colonies during the Great Awakening.
What are the "New Lights"?
500
Some of the consequences of this include the Treaty of Ghent and Jackson becoming a well known war hero.
What were the consequences of the War of 1812?
500
The Indian Removal Act revealed this about Jackson.
What events showed that Jackson was not really the "Common Man" president?
500
The Republican Party
What new party formed in the 1850s?
500
A political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.