This law provided for a Supreme Court consisting of a chief justice and 5 associate justices. It also set forth 3 federal circuit courts and 13 federal district courts.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789
100
George Washington advocated for this in his foreign policy, the U.S. tried to remain this way during the French Revolution
What is neutrality
100
This Supreme Court Case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison
100
the practice of winning candidates' rewarding their supporters with government jobs
What is the spoils system
100
she was horrified to discover that jails often housed mentally ill people, so she helped to set up hospitals for the mentally ill
Who is Dorothea Dix
200
Served as George Washington's Secretary of Treasury
Who is Alexander Hamilton
200
typically believed in a loose interpretation of the Constitution, an economy based on manufacturing and concentrated power in the federal government
What is a federalist
200
the 1803 purchase by the United States from France which extended U.S. territory from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, purchased under Thomas Jefferson
What is the Louisiana Purchase
200
the marches in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory in 1838-1840, with thousands of the Cherokee dying on the war
What is the Trail of Tears
200
born into slavery and helped lead a rebellion in which 55 whites were killed
Who Nat Turner
300
an import tax on goods produced in Europe. Meant to help encourage American production
What is a protective tariff
300
placing the interests of one region over those of the nation as a whole
What is sectionalism
300
the practice of seizing, or drafting American soldiers into the British navy. Used by the British and one of the causes of the War of 1812
What is impressment
300
John C. Calhoun's name for an 1828 tariff increase that seemed to Southerners to be enriching the North at their expense
What is the Tariff of Abominations
300
at this convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott helped write the Declaration of Sentiments
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
400
served as Washington's Secretary of State, believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and an economy based on farming
Who is Thomas Jefferson
400
John Adams sent an American delegation to meet with the French foreign minister. The minister refused to meet the delegation and sent 3 low level officials. Created strong anti-french feelings in the U.S.
What is the XYZ Affair
400
This invention by Eli Whitney greatly impacted the South's economy and helped slavery to expand
What is the Cotton Gin
400
19th-century religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized, along with the need for personal and social improvement
What is the Second Great Awakening
400
born a slave became a leading abolitionist and women's rights activist
Who is Sojourner Truth
500
a tax on a product's manufacture, sale, or distribution
What is an excise tax
500
due to strong anti-French feelings in the U.S., these acts were passed in which the residence requirements for American citizenship rose to 14 years and the president was allowed to deport or jail any alien considered undesirable
What is the Alien and Sedition Acts
500
proposed by Henry Clay, Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state, thus preserving the sectional balance in the Senate
What is the Missouri Compromise
500
a philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination
What is transcendentalism
500
the belief that married women should restrict their activities to the home and family