Unit 1
Who was the Spanish explorer who sailed to the Americas in 1492 and later had an exchange named after him?
Who is Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo)?
What was the Empire that the American Colonies were a part of?
What was the British Empire?
What were Alexander Hamiltons three reports?
What were the Report on public credit, the Report on Manufacturers, and the Report on the National Bank?
Who was the 7th president of the United states of America?
Who was Andrew Jackson (GOAT)?
- If you said the GOAT you get triple points.
Who was the judge who claimed the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional as well as officiate the Scott V. Sandford Case in the supreme court?
Who is Robert Taney?
What nations were a part of the Iroquois Confederacy in 1450 CE?
What were the Mohawk, Oneidas, Cayugas, Onondagas, and Senecas?
What economic development following the Industrial Revolution raised living standards in the colonies as well as greatly increased colonial debt?
Who was the man who shot Alexander Hamilton who was in a position of power during Jefferson's presidency?
Who was Aaron Burr (Vice President)?
Which theory of value argued that the exchange value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of "socially necessary labor" required to produce it?
What is the Labour Theory of Value?
What was the nickname for the Kansas-Nebraska conflict (1855-1859)?
What was Bleeding Kansas?
What system included a system of land distribution, pioneered in Virginia and used in several other colonies, granting land of 50 acres to every new inhabitant (including slaves)?
What was the headright system?
What governing body was established in May 1775, established a national military, created a national currency, and declared independence?
What was the Second Congressional Congress?
What city became known as the City of Peace due to the large amount of peace treaties signed?
Where is Paris, France?
What is the polictical party that was created as the "Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America" (1816)?
What was Robert Finley's American Colonization Society (ACS)?
[Daily Double]
Where did John Brown and his militia raid in order to stage a mass slave revolt in southern states?
Where is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
In 1686, what would have been the name of a royal province created by King James II that would have ended the Charters in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New York, and New Jersey?
What was the Dominion of New England?
What was the British debt at the end of the Second Hundred Year War?
What was £133,000,000?
What document outlines the basic human rights of the citizens of the United States of America?
What is the Bill of Rights
What was the social belief that women were to stay home and instill a sense of patriotism into the men and turn them into exemplary citizens?
What was Republican Motherhood?
What was the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876 was made between representatives of the Empire of Japan and the Kingdom of Joseon in 1876
What was the Treaty of Kanghwa (1876)?
What is the name of the 1739, slave revolt in South Carolina where an armed slave group raided six plantations and killed over forty colonists?
What was the Stono Rebellion?
[Triweekly Triple]
What were the 7 Abomidable acts in order of year (Stamp, Sugar, Quebec, Intolerable, Decletory, Quartering, and Townshend)
What were the Sugar Act (1764), Quartering Act (1765), Stamp Act (1765), Declatory Act (1766), Townshend Act (1767), Intolerable Act (1774), Quebec Act (1774)?
What enlightenment movement within Lutheranism combines and emphasizes biblical doctrine with individual serenity and living a holy Christian life?
What was pietism?
What was the American System (Henry Clay)?
What was the mercantilist system of National economic development including a National Bank, Protective Tariffs, subsidizing American Businesses, and expanding national roads/rivers?
[You win 100 more points]
What was a Superstition many Northerners, particularly abolitionists, believed about a small group of wealthy Southern slaveholders wielded excessive political power in the federal government, using their influence to expand slavery into new territories and dominate national policy?
What was the Slave Power Conspiracy?