Unit 1
These colonies focused on cash crops such as rice, indigo, cotton, and tobacco due to their climate and fertile lands.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This founding document was the original constitution for the United States and was known for its creation of a weak central government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This was the title given to the American policy that stated Europe cannot get involved in the affairs of countries in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The first 7 southern states left the Union for this reason.
What is the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln?
This is a company that dominates an entire market either through vertical or horizontal integration.
What is a Monopoly or Trust?
Due to the climate, these colonies' economic interest relied on manufacturing and trades such as shipping, whaling, and fishing.
What are the Northern colonies?
Following the court case Marbury v. Madison, this power of the Supreme Court was established.
What is Judicial Review?
This President was known for being behind the 1830 Indian Removal Act and despite the Supreme Court ruling it unconstitutional, still enforced this law.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
These set of laws were put into place by state governments in the South to try and suppress the Black vote by using poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests that were tied to voting.
What is the Jim Crow laws?
These were journalists that were known for using their platform to expose the corruption of businesses as well as the poor working and living conditions.
What are Muckrakers?
These were people of a religious group that moved from England in search for religious freedom as they desired to purify the Church.
Who are the Puritans?
In order for the Articles of Confederation to have a new amendment added, this is how many states had to agree.
What is 13 or all of them?
This representative from Kentucky advocated for the American System which included the National Bank, high tariffs, and infrastructure improvements.
Who is Henry Clay?
This package of bills from Congress included admitting California as a free state, abolishing the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and adding a stronger Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This was the idea during the Progressive Era that religion called people to help those in need and try to affect social change.
What is the Social Gospel?
This Englishman is known for developing the Enlightenment idea of natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
In his Farewell Address, George Washington urged the nation to avoid these two things.
What is staying out of foreign affairs and staying away from political parties?
Once removed from their land, Native Americans were forced to travel along this path to the new lands given to them in the West.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This was the idea that people should be able to vote on whether or not they wanted slavery in the new territories.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln passed this act to allow settlers to move to the West and obtain land for farming and improvement.
What is the Homestead Act?
This is the Enlightenment idea that the people can make an agreement with the government to protect their rights and if the government does not, then the people can rebel.
What is the Social Contract?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice was known for rulings that expanded the power and reach of the federal government.
Who is John Marshall?
This was the political party that rose to national prominence as they went against Andrew Jackson and the Democrats.
What is the Whig Party?
The United States government implemented this many military districts in the South during Radical Reconstruction to protect Black rights.
What is 5?
This is the idea during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that immigrants were inferior to natural born citizens and was coupled with a distrust toward any non-Protestant religion.
What is Nativism?