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Unit One: Colonial History
Unit Two: American Revolution
Unit Three: Early Republic
Unit Four: Antebellum America
Unit Five: Expansion and Coming of the Civil War
100
These workers were important to the development of the Chesapeake in the 1600s because they provided cheap and abundant labor for tobacco planters.
Who are indentured servants?
100
Thomas Jefferson argued that the British were depriving Americans of these, which all men were entitled to, and no government had permission to take away.
What are natural rights? (Also acceptable: What are inalienable rights? or What is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?)
100
George Washington famously adopted this type of foreign policy when he refused to take sides in the conflict between France and England in 1793.
What is neutrality?
100
This invention, which allowed cotton to be produced more efficiently, revitalized the slave system in the American South.
What is the cotton gin?
100
This concept argued that Americans had a God-given right to expand to the West, and contributed to the annexation of Texas, the Mexican War, and the popularity of the Democrats in the 1840s and 50s.
What is "manifest destiny"?
200
The colonists of this colony were known for living in tightly clustered communities, requiring schools for any town that had 50 families or more, and living longer than any other colonists in British North America.
What is New England?
200
This piece of legislation was meant to raise money from the colonies to help Britain pay down its national debt by requiring that each piece of paper printed in the colonies be taxed.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This party, led by men like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, favored states' rights, supported the French Revolution, and wanted the U.s. to be a nation of small farmers rather than rich businessmen.
What is the Republican Party (Democratic-Republicans)?
200
This was the name for Henry Clay's set of policies which supported creating a new national bank, higher tariffs, and internal improvements.
What is the American System?
200
This agreement included the controversial "Fugitive Slave Act," which was a major reason why Southern politicians supported it.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Supported mainly by former indentured servants angry over a lack of land and opportunities, this revolt occurred one hundred years before the start of the American Revolution.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
300
James Madison ensured that the Constitution set up a federal government characterized by this quality, which means that each branch of government oversees the other branches, and guarantees that the government cannot gain unlimited power.
What is checks and balances?
300
This man, the first Secretary of the Treasury, created a tax, tariff, and debt program under George Washington with the goal of getting the wealthy classes to invest in the new federal government.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
This religious movement of the 1830s and 1840s encouraged Americans to seek a personal connection to God and to reform society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
300
This declaration by President Lincoln freed the slaves only in those states in rebellion against the U.S.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This is the term for the British policy of not enforcing the Navigation Acts, in the hope the colonies in North America would grow more prosperous if left alone.
What is "salutary neglect"?
400
In this, one of the most famous of the pro-Constitution Federalist papers, James Madison argued that a republic was the best form of government for a large country with diverse political opinions.
What is Federalist No. 10?
400
These documents declared that the states had the right to determine whether or not a federal law was constitutional or not.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
400
This 1820 agreement kept the balance between free states and slave states in the Senate and banned slavery in the territory north of the 36'30 latitude line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
A territory earned this nickname in the 1850s because of bloody warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
500
One had to have this in order to vote in Massachusetts Bay colony.
What is church membership?
500
This was the uprising of small farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786 whose revolt against tax collectors helped convince American leaders that the newly independent states needed a stronger central government to ensure order.
What is Shays Rebellion?
500
This concept, established in the court case Marbury v. Madison, is the idea that the Supreme Court had the right to determine if a law was constitutional or not.
What is judicial review?
500
South Carolina's refusal to follow two federal tariff laws seen as unfairly injuring the South created this "crisis" in 1832.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
500
According to this amendment, all persons born in the United States of America are citizens of the U.S., and are eligible for all the rights and protections of citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?