US History 1
The department heads who advise the president.
What is the cabinet?
The conclusion of the French and Indian War ended this for the Colonists
What is Salutary Neglect
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
The passage of this created popular sovereignty in territories to determine if they would be free or slave.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Imposed taxes on lead, paint, paper, tea, and glass
What is the Townshend Act
First real tax imposed on colonists
What is the Stamp Act
What are the three branches of the government?
Judicial Branch
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
The Federalist strongly supported a
strong centralized government
Supreme Court case that stated States cant take away native land because they are a country within a country
What is Worchester v. Georgia
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?
Supreme Court case that protected slavery using the 5th amendment
What is the Dred Scott Case
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)
Event where 5 colonists were killed and fueled the anger against the British
What is the Boston Massacre
Civil War
The increase of manufactured and raw goods led to the start of this
What is the Market Revolution
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
Laws that gave the Federalist too much power and led to the decline of the party
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts
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?
What is the ratify of the constitution
Why did Forty-niners and others rush to California?
This group led protest against British taxes
Who are the Sons of Liberty
Hamilton use this to argue for the constitutional power of the federal government to create the national bank
What is Loose Interpretation
What word referred to the "leader" of the Underground Railroad who escorted slaves from one "station" to the next?
A conductor
Law that was used to force colonist to only buy from the East India Tea Company
What is the Tea Act
Who was the lead author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What invention increased slavery in the South?
Cotton Gin
Which treaty ended the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris 1783
This plan created a unicameral legislator, with representation being equal between all states
What is the New Jersey Plan