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100
This document was the first attempt at writing a constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
This diminutive Virginian is considered the "Father of the Constitution" and was elected as president in 1808.
Who is James Madison?
100
The Republicans, led by Jefferson, charged that these new laws were unconstitutional as it violated the First Amendment.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
100
This astute real estate purchase doubled the country's sized in 1893.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
During this Anglo-American war, the British sailed up the Potomac and set fire the White House and other government buildings.
What is the War of 1812?
200
This is the law-making branch of the U.S. Government.
What is Congress?
200
This famous Shawnee chief revived the Western Confederacy and wanted to unite all tribes to prevent white settlers from moving into the Western territories.
Who is Tecumseh?
200
These two acts passed by the respective state legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia declared the Alien and Sedition Acts to be "null and void" establishing a "states' rights" interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
200
This event was considered an insult to the United States when the French foreign minister Talleyrand solicited a bribe form American diplomats before they would stop the illegal search and seizures of American ships.
What is the XZY Affair?
200
Collectively, these wars in Europe between 1802-1815 endangered American commerce because American neutrality was not respected by the belligerents.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
300
This theory of government assured that no branch of government had too much power.
What is mixed government?
300
This slave-owning planter from Tennessee led an army of militiamen to victory at Horseshoe Bend in the territory which would become the future state of Alabama.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
To protect the property of southern slave owners, the Constitutional delegates agreed to what clause in the the Constitution.
What was the Fugitive Slave Clause?
300
This rebellion which took place in Massachusetts in 1786, challenged the new state government's right to impose property qualifications for voting, levy taxes, put debtors in prison, and confiscate property to pay debt.
What is Shay's Rebellion.
300
This 1794 battle followed President Washington's decision to lead a military expedition against the Western Confederacy (Shawnee, Miami, and Potawatomi tribes) in fear that he Indians were allying withe the British in Canada.
What is the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
400
These two state plans were the models for the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
400
This rising new Congressman and new Speaker of the House from Kentucky favored war with Britain and was known as a "war hawk."
Who is Henry Clay?
400
This treaty officially ended the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
400
This election year saw Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tie for the presidency causing the election to be decided by the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is the election of 1800?
400
This practice of the British to seize American sailors and force them into the service of the Royal Navy is a major cause of the War of 1812
What is "impressment."
500
As opposed to bi-cameral legislature, this is what the framers of the Constitution first considered.
What is a unicameral legislature?
500
This Southern Congressman, also a war hawk, later led his native state of South Carolina, in defying a president by refusing to obey a new federal tariff law.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
500
This law, signed into law by Jefferson, forbid American ships to leave their home port until Britain and France repealed their restrictions on American trade.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
500
This secret meeting of New England states in 1814, ended with proposals which included secession from the United States, a demand for a one-term presidency, and a 2/3 majority in Congress to declare war, prohibit trade, or add a new state to the Union.
What is the Hartford Convention?
500
This battle, which actually occurred after the treaty ending the War of 1812 had been signed made Andrew Jackson a national hero.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?