US History 1
The department heads who advise the president.
What is the cabinet?
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
What caused the Whiskey Rebellion?
opposition to a tax on whiskey
Explorers of Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clark
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
What is the day of the Japanese attack on Hawaii called?
Pearl Harbor Day
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Why did the Pilgrims come to America?
To start their own religious community after becoming dissatisfied with the Protestant Church in England.
In what year were the first enslaved Africans brought to American colonies?
1619
What are the three branches of the government?
Judicial Branch
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
The Federalist strongly supported a
strong centralized government
How many Africans were captured and forcibly transported during the entirety of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
Around 12 million (I will accept any number between 10-15 million)
America's refusal to take sides in the war between Britain and France
Proclamation of Neutrality
What did Washington warn against in his "Farewell Address"?
foreign alliances
What was Manifest Destiny?
The first document in the America's that encouraged self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Established the nation's first cabinet
Who is George Washington?
Which president signed the Indian Removal Act, which moved Native Americans into unsettled land in the West in exchange for their land within state borders?
Andrew Jackson
What was impressment?
after sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy
a party that supported the common people and favored a small, limited government
Democratic Republicans (NOT just Republicans)
The Sedition Act granted the president the power to
prohibit "treasonous" speech
Civil War
What vocabulary term means establishing a tradition?
Precedent
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
Who did the US fight in the War of 1812?
Great Britain / England
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?
Francis Scott Key is known for writing this.
What is "The Star Spangled Banner?"
This issue first opened a debate over constitutional interpretation?
creation of a national bank
What word referred to the "leader" of the Underground Railroad who escorted slaves from one "station" to the next?
A conductor
America's second president
John Adams
Who was the lead author of the Declaration of Independence? (Hint, he was also the 3rd President of the US and was the Vice President to John Adams)
Thomas Jefferson
What invention increased slavery in the South?
Cotton Gin
Which treaty ended the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris 1783
How did the first Indigenous tribes get here (to North America)?
They crossed a land bridge from Asia