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?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
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 was a result of the annexation of Texas?
What was Popular Sovereignty?
People in the new territories were able to vote on whether or not to allow slavery into the new areas.
Significance of John Locke
What is philosopher that Thomas Jefferson followed, which formed the idea of unalienable rights.
A movement defined by scientific reasoning, individualism and freedom.
What is the enlightenment?
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 Fugitive Slave Act?
Escaped slaves could be forced back into slavery under the Compromise of 1850.
Warned that the US would not tolerate any more colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine
Where is the Erie Canal located?
Upstate NY
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
A conflict between the United States and Great Britain over trade, maritime rights and territory
What was the War of 1812?
What was impressment?
after sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
The Sedition Act granted the president the power to
prohibit "treasonous" speech
What is the revolutionary war and the war of 1812?
Why is the Erie Canal significant?
It connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
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?
Life, liberty and property
What is natural rights defined by John Locke?
3 things 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,
Who started the Mexican American War? Why was it started? What was the result?
US
disagreement over Texas border (because we wanted California)
US won and got the territory of California for much cheaper than before.
America's second president
John Adams
What year was the Louisiana Purchase?
1803
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
What is one important consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision in Marbury v. Madison?
Gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.