Geography
Religion
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Politics/Economics
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100

Large groups of these immigrants came to America during a famine in their homeland. 

Who are the Irish?  

100

A Protestant religious revival in the United States that took place from around 1795 to 1835.  

What was the Second Great Awakening?  

100

New York waterway built to connect industry and consumers with midwestern farmers. 

What is the Erie Canal?  

100

Three-letter scandal that occurred when French diplomats demanded bribes from American officials.  

What is the X.Y.Z. Affair?  

100

In the decades before the Civil War, between one-fifth and one-third of all slave marriages were broken up via _________.

What is the domestic slave trade?  

200

As a condition of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri entered as a slave state and _____ entered as a free state. 

What is Maine?  

200

Which of the following denominations benefitted the least from the Second Great Awakening? 

a. Methodists 

b. Baptists 

c. Presbyterians 

d. Episcopalians

d. Episcopalians

200

First American president to not come from a wealthy family.  

Who is Andrew Jackson?  

200

These Acts, passed during John Adams' administration, allowed the for the deportation of foreign nationals and prosecution of anyone speaking negatively against the government. 

What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?  

200

This discovery in 1848 caused San Francisco's population to grow from about 500 to 50,000 by 1853. 

What is gold?  

300

The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. 

What is Manifest Destiny?  

300

Term for a region greatly affected by the revivals of the Second Great Awakening.

What is Burned Over District?  

300

This "Great Compromiser" ultimately decided the fate of the 1824 election. 

Who is Henry Clay? 

300

"Midnight judge" case that established judicial review (checks and balances on executive and legislative power). 

What is Marbury v. Madison?  

300

Transcendentalism initially began among which group? 

a. German theologians 

b. English poets 

c. American clergymen

d. Irish reformers

c. American clergymen

400

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War transferred to the U.S. the areas that are now the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, California, Wyoming, and this state where your teacher was raised. 

What is Colorado? 

400

Ephesians 6:5 was the verse most often used to justify slavery to the enslaved it begins "Slaves, obey your earthly _____"

What are masters?  

400

Escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker during much of the 19th century. 

Who is Frederick Douglass?  

400

Of Southern planters, western homesteaders, northeaster manufacturers, or female teachers, group most likely to support tariffs.  

Who are Northeastern manufacturers?  

400

The Temperance movement of the 1800s sought to limit or ban the consumption of what substance?  

What is alcohol? 

500

Term for the forced relocation of several Native American tribes, primarily the Cherokee, from the Southeastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in the 1830s.

What is the Trail of Tears?  

500

Title that American Indians used for God.

What is Great Spirit? 

500

This invention improved the separation of the seeds and fibers from an important Southern crop.  

What is the Cotton gin?  

500

By 1860, 60% of this cash crop was exported from the United States.  

What is cotton?  

500

The forced movement and sale of enslaved people within the United States. 

What is the domestic slave trade?