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Miscellaneous
Where am I?
Mish-mosh
Laws and Treaties
Government
100
indirect election of the president
What is the Electoral College?
100
Great or..................Compromise in the writing of the Constitution.
What is Connecticut?
100
Manifest destiny-apx date
What is the 1840s?
100
1862 160 acres to anyone who will settle for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
100
talking a bill to death R
What is filibuster?
200
Term: search warrants that allowed British soldiers to search houses or businesses of colonists AP
What is writs of assistance?
200
In the Texas War for Independence, Texans lost this major battle.
What is the Alamo?
200
1814-15 Death Knell of the Federalist Party AP
What is he Hartford Convention?
200
Made citizenship from 5 to 14 years under the Adams administration AP
What is the Naturalization Act?
200
all appropriations (money) bill begin there
What is the House of Representatives?
300
the bread basket of the colonies
What are the Middle Colonies?
300
Two states prominent in 1854
What is Kansas and Nebraska?
300
In writing the Constitution said slaves would be counted for representation and taxation
What is the 3/5 compromise?
300
Legislation forbidding the further introduction of slavery into Missouri and declaring that all children born of slave parents after the admission of the state should be free upon reaching the age of twenty-five. AP
What is the Tallmadge Amendment?
300
Term: an organized pressure group R
What is a lobby?
400
Minimum number of electoral votes to become president
What is 270?
400
Whiskey Rebellion
What is Pennsylvania?
400
Thomas Paine wrote this book to encourage independence
What is Common Sense?
400
TRade with any nations EXCEPT England and France
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
400
French philosopher: separation of Church and state; freedom of speech
Who is Voltaire?
500
Term: receiving more votes than any other candidate but less than 1/2
What is plurality?
500
First Battle of the Civil War
What is Ft. Sumpter?
500
branch of government that impeaches the president or other public officials
What is the House?
500
Under Grant outlawed violence through white supremacists organizations AP
What is the Force Bill?
500
Two authors of the Federalist Papers
Who are Hamilton; Madison; John Jay?