This type of government lacks power, which can cause people to riot or make chaos.
What is anarchy?
100
This is a machine that would separate the seed from this type of crop. It was constructed by Eli Whitney and helped make production very profitable.
What is the cotton gin?
100
The period in U.S history around 1879-1900 that seemed fine on the outside, but was politically corrupt inside.
What is the Gilded Age?
100
He was the 7th President of the US and the Hero of the Battle of Orleans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
This abolished slavery legally.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
200
Also known as the large state plan, this was a plan to make a strong central government and composed of the three branches- executive, legislative, and judicial.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
These were sleek and fast types of transportation, but were unable to carry a lot of cargo or passengers. They were famous for trading with Asia.
What are clipper ships?
200
This is also known as hard money.
What is specie?
200
This man was known as the Methodist Circuit Rider. He preached for 50 years going from Tennessee to Illinois and converted people to Christianity.
Who is Peter Cartwright?
200
This was a secret 19th century Irish and Irish American organization dedicated to the overthrow of British rule in Ireland.
Who are Fenians?
300
This was an agreement that the legislative structure would be split into two houses the Senate and the House of Representatives?
What is the Great Compromise?
300
These were state funded institutions that existed in the 1830's and receive federal funds from Jackson, which led to the Panic of 1837.
What are Pet Banks?
300
This was an election tactic where a party, usually the Republicans, would nominate an old military figure to keep reminding the nation of the Civil War.
What is the Bloody-Shirt?
300
He reported that he was visited by an angle and given golden plates in 1840. He ran into opposition from Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri, when he attempted to spread the Mormon beliefs and was killed by those who opposed him.
Who is Joseph Smith?
300
This was Lincoln's Reconstruction Act.
What is the 10% Plan?
400
These eighty-five essays were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay in the late 1780's to persuade the voters of New York to adopt the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
400
Martin Van Buren passed the “divorce bill” in 1840, which created this and separated government funds into private vaults in different cities. This kept funds safe from inflation.
What is the Independent Treasury?
400
This was an act where Congress stopped the coinage of silver dollars against the will of the farmers and westerners, who wanted unlimited coinage of silver.
What is the Crime of 73?
400
She was the unmarried daughter of Harriet Beecher Stowe and urged women to enter the teaching profession and helped make school teaching an occupation.
Who is Catharine Beecher?
400
This divided the South into 5 military districts, was commanded by the Union and passed in 1867 by Radical Republicans.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
500
This is a membership group founded in 1738 to preserve the ideas and fellowship of officers who were in both the Continental Army and the Revolution Army.
What is Society of the Cincinnati?
500
These people lived in Florida and waged a 7 year war against Americans who were attempting to steal their land.
Who are the Seminole Indians?
500
He was a progressive reformer of the early 1900's, that was elected the Republican Governer of California in 1910 and helped put an end to trusts.
Who is Hiram Johnson?
500
She was a New England teacher and author who spoke against the inhumane treatment of insane people during the 1830's.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
500
Also known as the “ Do Nothings” or “Old Gentlemens.”