This economic policy established colonies and a favorable balance of trade for the mother country
What is mercantilism?
100
The best-selling pamphlet that provided the intellectual justification for American independence.
What is Common Sense?
100
Former Vice President and killer of Alexander Hamilton
Who was Aaron Burr?
100
The standard understanding of "Jacksonian Democracy" includes the extension of voting rights to this specific group
Who were white men without property (white manhood suffrage)?
100
This section of the country was most solidly opposed to Henry Clay's American System.
What is the South?
200
The first European settlers of what came to be known as New York were from this nation
What is the Netherlands?
200
Revolutionary war veteran who led poor farmers in a failed revolt that had far-reaching consequences
What was Daniel Shays?
200
The Supreme Court decision in this case established the principle of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
This was the goal of the American Colonization Society
What was returning freed slaves to Africa?
200
This was the primary reason the United States denied Texas admission to the the union between 1836 and 1845
What is Northern objection to the possible extension of slavery and additional power to the South
300
This was the primary cause of Bacon's Rebellion
What is the governor's inaction over the Indian-colonial clashes in the Virginia backcountry
300
This is why the British imposed a western line of settlement in the Proclamation of 1763 to close out the French and Indian War
What was to avoid conflicts with the trans-Appalachian Indians?
300
Of A) territorial expansion, B) neutrality in dealing with England and France, and C) handling of the Barbary Coast pirates, Jefferson's most unpopular policy
What is B) neutrality in dealing with England and France?
300
During the first half of the 19th century, women reformers were most active in this cause
What is temperance?
300
This was the largest nativist movement of the mid-19th century
What were the Know Nothings?
400
These settlers who emigrated to New England in the 17th century considered themselves non-separatists
Who were the Puritans?
400
This was the military turning point of the Revolutionary War that prompted France to ally with the new American nation in 1778.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
400
Shawnee leader who organized a major Indian confederation against US expansion
Who was Tecumseh?
400
Jackson's attack on the Bank of the United States brought about this immediate economic effect
What was expansion of credit or land speculation?
400
This was the legislative principle established in the Dred Scott decision
What was Congress could not limit the expansion of slavery in the territories?
500
Slavery was legally established in this many colonies in British North American by the early 1700s
What is 13?
500
This was the part of Alexander Hamilton's financial plan for the new nation that caused the greatest constitutional debate.
What was the creation of a National Bank?
500
Restrictive trade policy that hurt American shippers and farmers more than its intended British target
What is the Embargo Act of 1807 (O Grab Me)?
500
The growth in the Market Economy between 1815 and 1850 caused farmers to do this
What is specialize in one or two crops for sale?
500
This element of the Kansas-Nebraska Act caused the greatest controversy and led directly to the founding of the Republican Party
What is the (de facto) repeal of the Missouri Compromise?