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In the beginning
and the winner is...
Growing Pains
and the judge says...
A matter of Principle
100
The Leader of the Virginia Company that settled the colony of Jamestown. (He did not marry Pocahontas.)
Who is John Smith?
100
The process used in the first election to decide President and Vice President.
What is the most votes is President and the second place is Vice President?
100
A violent uprising of farmers protesting high taxes put down by U.S. military troops.
What is The Whiskey Rebellion?
100
Established Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
A system of government in which the power is divided between a central government and smaller political units such as states
What is Federalism?
200
The colony settled by Catholics to escape persecution and be able to practice their religious beliefs in peace.
What is Maryland?
200
Dealt with the XYZ affair and kept the United States out of the War between France and England.
Who is John Adams?
200
George Mason refused to sign the Constitution until it had this added.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
When a state tried to stop the Nation Bank from operating by placing taxes on notes chartered outside of that state.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
200
The people exercise their power by voting
What is Republicanism?
300
The main cash crop in Virginia which increased the demand for slavery.
What is tobacco or cotton?
300
Made a "Corrupt Bargan" to win the election of 1824.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
300
A war caused by the impressment of US sailors by Britain. also known as the 2nd Revolution.
What is the War of 1812?
300
Established that the Federal government regulates interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
300
The system which ensures that one branch of the government is not more powerful than the other.
What is Checks and Balances?
400
The three early forms of government inspired by the Magna Carta.
What are the House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
400
Won the Election of 1828 as the "Common Man's" President/
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
Three French agents attempted to bribe the US in return for a promise to stop impressing their sailors.
What is the XYZ Affair?
400
The first Supreme Court case to apply the principle of judicial review.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
400
a government in which the people rule, a broad range of people shared in the power to govern themselves
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
The economic practice in which the "Mother country" controls all the trade of its colonies.
What is Mercantilism.
500
A tactic used in the Election of 1828, still used in election today.
What is Mudslinging?
500
Allowed the government to arrest and deport any person, without a fair trial in the court, who was seen protesting or criticizing the government.
What is the Alien and Sedition Act?
500
This case is often argued as the most significant court case ever in history.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
everyone, citizens and powerful leaders alike, must obey the law
What is Limited Government?