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The most famous diplomatic statement in U.S. History that declared the Americas off limits to future European colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
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Massachusettes school teacher who lobbied for the humane treatment of the mentally ill in the early 1840s.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
100
Section of the United States the Anti-federalists generally supported.
What is the South?
100
The name for the disagreement over the national bank between Jackson and Clay.
What was the Bank War?
100
Collection of federal laws, favored by the Federalists, that supported a bicameral legislature and the power of the federal government to tax and raise an army.
What is the Constitution? Under the Constitution, how many states must consent for an amendment to be ratified?
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Treaty signed in 1795 that ceded the present state of Ohio to the U.S. for an annual payment to 12 Native American tribes, who previously lived there, of $9,500.
What was the Treaty of Greenville?
200
A war hero, the first president to campaign to the "common man" and make the "spoils system" famous.
Who is Andrew Jackson? What famous battle made Andrew Jackson a hero?
200
This state is where the remainder of the Native Americans left in the East were moved to during the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.
What is Oklahoma?
200
One of four slave rebellions, in the early 1800's, that erupted before it could be supressed and resulted in the death of over 60 white peope and over 100 slaves.
What was Nate Turner's Rebellion? *Name the conspiracy led by a literate carpenter who used biblical passages, anti-slavery sentiments in Congress and the successful revolt in Haiti to inspire his followers. *Name the first of the four slave rebellions that occurred in Virginia and failed because a slave informed white authorities.
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Collection of federal laws, favored by the Antifederalists, that did not provide paramaters for an executive or judicial branch and assigned most future legislative power to individual states.
What were the Articles of Confederation? Under the Articles, how many states had to consent to ratify an amendment?
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The name of the document that demanded female equality drafted at the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments? What document was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after?
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Two delegates who were excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention and subsequently organized the first national convention ever devoted to women's rights.
Who were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton? What was the name of the convention?
300
Two "countries" the Webster-Ashburton Treaty establish a border between.
What is British Canada and Maine?
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Shady affair reported to Congress by Adams. According to Adams, French intermediaries demanded a bribe and a loan from three U.S. commisioners sent to France to avoid a war.
What was the XYZ Affair? What undeclared war was sparked by the XYZ Affair after a series of French seisures of U.S. ships and impressment of American sailors?
300
One of the most important cases in U.S. history that defined the role of the Supreme Court.
What was Marbury vs. Madison? What is the name of the chief justice who delivered the decision? What term is used to describe the primary role of the Supreme Court?
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During the Trail of Tears, which "war" was really more of a frantic attempt by Sauk and Fox Indians to escape the forced removal and subsequent murder by federal troops?
What was Black Hawk's War? Where were the Sauk and Fox trying to get to for safety?
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The famous Brook Farm resident and American author taught the idea that intuition and emotion could grasp reality better than the senses.
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson? What do we call Emerson's teachings?
400
Where the Quasi-War was mainly fought.
What is the Carribean?
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The rebellion that was a result of Hamilton's excise tax on a certain product farmers had begun to produce because it was cheaper to transport than grain.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion? Which President sent troops to "crush" the rebellion? What did the troops find when they reached Western Pennsylvania? The conflict between what two entities was both further defined and excacerbated by the Whiskey Rebellion?
400
Supreme Court case regarding steamboat monopolies that affirmed the supremacy of the national government to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons vs. Ogden?
500
Resolution that set up each state with two votes in the Senate and votes based on population in the House of Representatives.
What the Great Compromise? (add to notes) Which plan suggested that representation in Congress be based upon state population? Which plan suggested that each state receive one vote and subsequently equal representation in Congress?
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Chief justice who negotiated a treaty in the late 1790s with Great Britain that granted GB "most favored nation" trading status, reaffirmed the intention of repaying pre-Revolution colonial debts to GB and forced GB to abandon 6 forts in the American NW amongst other provisions.
Who was John Jay?
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The state where Shay's Rebellion occured.
What is Massachusettes? Why did farmers revolt?
500
Early 19th century war between the U.S. and Great Britain fought partly because Madison though that British trade restrictions were meant to reduce the United States to the status of permanent colonial dependents.
What was the War of 1812 What treaty ended this war? What changed between the United States and Great Britain after the War of 1812?
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Ordinance that made slavery south of the Ohio River legal.
What was the Southwest Ordinance of 1790? Southern Congressman did not fight which ordinance because they did not want Northern states to be able to compete with Southern farmers?