US History 1
The forced removal of indian trips west of the mississippi
What is the trail of tears/Indian Removal Act?
He is the First President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
A change to the Constitution requires this proportion of states to ratify it
3/4 of the states
President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Explorers of Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clark
Invention that began the agricultural revolution and led to the industrial revolution
What is the cotton gin?
What is free enterprise?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Virginia Plan wanted representation in Congress to be based on this
Population
The idea that the power to rule comes from the people is known as
Popular Sovereignty
What are the three branches of the government?
Judicial Branch
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
The Federalist strongly supported a
strong centralized government
What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
The right to vote for all freedmen
Warned that the US would not tolerate any more colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine
Who were the opposing sides in the American Revolution?
Patriots and British Loyalist
What was Manifest Destiny?
The first document in the America's that encouraged self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This document preceded the Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation
Based on the U.S. Constitution, the government is run by
The People
What was impressment?
after sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy
The political party that was made up of mostly of planters and previous confederate leaders after the Civil War
Democrat
This man was is considered the "drafter" of the Constitution
James Madison
Two wars that the US fought against Great Britain
What is the revolutionary war and the war of 1812?
What were Radical Republicans?
Republicans who favored extreme approach to Reconstruction
This Document that incited the American Revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first secretary of the treasury
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What was the "deal breaking" clause that Anti-federalist required the Constitution to include for ratification?
Bill of Rights
The Alien Acts granted the president the power to
expel or imprison immigrants
a party that supported industry, a growing centralized government, and rule by property owners
Federalist
A run-away slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement and special advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Whose argument resulted in the creation of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists?
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
Why did Forty-niners and others rush to California?
What were the natural rights defined by John Locke?
Life, liberty and property
Name 1 thing that Andrew Jackson was known for in his presidency
What is: Opposing the national bank, the spoils system, trail of tears, going against a supreme court ruling,
Which treaty ended the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris 1783
What is a tariff?
A tax on imported goods
What was the 2nd revival of religious feeling in the United States?
Second Great Awakening
Effects of the cotton gin on US economy?
What is made the country reliant of slave labor, made cotton the main agricultural crop of the US which ultimately destroyed the economy after the war.
Which treaty ended the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo
Andrew Johnson's stance on Reconstruction
What is to make is as easy as possible for the South to rejoin the United State?