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100
This principle was compromise between pure membership of the puritan elect and inclusion of the entire community--even non-saints.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
100
This founding father warned of the dangers posed by political parties in his Farewell Address.
Who is Washington?
100
Colonists opposed this Act requiring them to pay a tax on many goods including paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Rockefeller and Carnegie "preached" this ethic of philanthropy.
What is the gospel of wealth?
100
This judge refused to hear Dred Scott's case because slaves were not citizens.
Who is Taney?
200
This slogan summed up colonial dissatisfaction with their representation in Parliament.
What is no taxation without representation?
200
This founding father wrote the Report on Public Credit and the Report on Banks and Manufactures.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
John Calhoun proposed nullification of this Andrew Jackson effort to protect domestic industry.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
200
This leader of the AFL brought skilled laborers into the union movement.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
200
Even though the Supreme Court ruled they could stay on their tribal lands, Andrew Jackson removed this tribe to Oklahoma.
Who are the Cherokees?
300
This economic policy limited colonial trade of many goods to England only.
What is mercantilism?
300
This founding father signed the Embargo Act in a misguided attempt at peacable coercion of Britain and France into respecting US neutrality
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
These resolutions authored by Jefferson and Madison sought to nullify the Sedition Act.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
300
He ran for president in 1896 promoting free silver and other populist causes.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
300
These placed limits on the ability of freedmen to leave their former masters employment.
What is the black codes?
400
Great Britain imposed a series of taxes to recoup expenses from this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
400
This founding father became president in 1800, ushering in an era of democratic-republican rule.
Who is Thos. Jefferson?
400
This founder of Rhode Island was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for expressing his own religious ideas.
Who is Roger Williams?
400
This strike in Carnegie's steel plant ended in violence.
What is the Homestead Strike?
400
Feeling left out of the national government and upset about the conduct of the war of 1812, Federalists met in this Connecticut city to plot strategy.
What is Hartford?
500
This Proclamation tried to close the Northwest territory to colonization. Good luck with that.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
This young French nobleman was instrumental in the American war effort.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
500
This frenchman tried to embroil the US in an alliance against England in 1793.
Who is Citizen Genet?
500
Rockefeller built Standard Oil into one of these in order to reduce competition and increase profits.
What is a trust?
500
Women cited the Declaration of Independence in calling for equal treatment at this early gathering.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?