What is the process to enrich the country by restraining imports and encouraging exports?
What is Mercantilsm.
100
Who wrote common sense?
Who is Thomas Paine.
100
What position was given to George Washington by Second Continental Congress in 1775?
What is Commander-in-chief.
100
Who created the Monroe Doctrine?
Who is John Quincy Adams.
100
Is the spoil system used today?
What is No. Modern variations on the spoils system are often described as the political machine.
200
Why did the Puritans come over to the New World?
What is Religous freedom and expression.
200
What was the first battle of the Revolutionary war?
What is Lexington and Concord.
200
Who was George Washingtons Vice President?
Who is John Adams.
200
What was Manifest Destiny?
What is the 19th century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.
200
Who created the cotton gin?
Who is Eli Whitney.
300
What are the Puritans Beliefs?
What is purifying the Church and themselves by combining Religion and society.
300
What event on March, 5th 1770 did the British soilders open fire and kill 5 people?
What is The Boston Massacre.
300
What was the significance of the Whiskey Rebellion?
What is the showing of the power of federal government and it's ability to enforce law.
300
What is James K Polk known for?
What is our 11th President of the United States and being responsible for the second largest expansion of our nation's territory.
300
What is the spoil system?
What is a method of appointing officials to the government of the United States of America based on political connections rather than on impersonal measures of merit.
400
Were the American people the first to believe in Mercantilism?
What is no. Mercantilism dominated Western European economic policy and discourse from the 16th to late-18th centuries.
400
What was the last battle of the Revolutionary War and who won?
What is The battle of Yorktown. (American victory)
400
What was Washington’s stance on the French Revolution?
What is to stay neutral.
400
how did the Monroe doctrine change the way we live today?
What is on December 2, 1823, stated that European powers were no longer to colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent states of the Americas.
400
Why was/is the cotton gin so important?
What is it made slavery much more economically. (more bang for your buck!!!)
500
What were the Native American views on nature?
What is Harmony. Native Americans looked at it as a sacred belonging.
500
Who (person) was able to gain foreign support from France?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
Who ran against George Washington for presidency?
What is no nobody. He was unanimously elected by the Electoral College.
500
What purchase was know as the he greatest real estate deal in history?
What is The Louisiana Purchase. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a price of $15 million, or approximately four cents an acre.
500
Who started using the spoil system on a federal level?
Who is William Henry Harrison. first use of the spoils system traces back to President John Quincy Adams, President Andrew Jackson, and President Thomas Jefferson