This document was signed in 1215 by King John creating Parliament and allowing jury trials for the accused.
What is the Magna Carta?
100
These people supported ratification of the Constitution.
Who are federalists?
100
The 3 cash crops of colonial North America.
What are rice, indigo, and tobacco?
100
Cash crop of the South.
What is cotton?
100
The three parts of the Anaconda Plan.
What are blockade southern ports, capture Richmond, and control the Mississippi River?
200
The contracts that granted all colonists coming to the Americas the full rights of Englishmen back home.
What are colonial charters?
200
Established the first written framework for government in the colonies of North America with the idea that government derives its power from the people.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
Law granting religious protections for Catholics and other protestants in Maryland.
What is the Act of Toleration?
200
The issue that more than any other intensified sectionalism during the antebellum era.
What is the expansion of slavery?
200
Lincoln's primary goal for fighting the Civil War?
What is preserve the Union?
300
The bloodless revolution that ended the absolute rule of the Stuart line of succession.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
300
The explanation of why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
What is to gain support of moderate antifederalists and protect individual rights from an abusive government?
300
The main reason why the colonial regions developed differently from each other.
What are geographic factors?
300
National institution that Andrew Jackson opposed during his time in office. The hydra headed monster.
What is the National Bank?
300
Reason why Reconstruction ended in 1877.
What is the election of Rutherford B. Hayes who promised to remove federal troops from the South?
400
Document that granted Englishmen the freedom of speech and protections from an abusive government.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
Document that proposed that states have the right to interpret the Constitution to decide if laws violate it.
What is the Virginia-Kentucky Resolution?
400
Law that was not strictly enforced by England until after the French and Indian War that stated the colonies could only trade with England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
400
Practice of allowing people to vote for or against slavery in a state.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Strategic victory for the North that led to Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
500
The monarchs who agreed to sign a document saying that Parliament's power was greater than the power of the throne.
Who are William and Mary?
500
The explanation of why the Great Compromise was needed to settle the issue of representation.
What is to find common ground between large states and small states (Large states wanted representation in the legislative branch based upon population while small states wanted equal representation)?
500
An example of a pure democracy in the government of colonial North America.
What is the New England Town Meeting?
500
Supreme Court decision that stated African Americans are not citizens and therefore have no rights before the Court.
What is Scott v Sanford?
500
The political party of Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, and Freedmen.