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Washington declared this when he wanted to keep the newly formed US out of a conflict with the US ally, France and Great Britain.
What is the Neutrality Proclamation of 1793?
100
This treaty angered many Americans but it politically made sense as the treaty solved trade disputes with Great Britain making it a favored nation of trade.
What is Jay's Treaty?
100
This war left very few natives in New England after the Puritan victory.
What is King Phillip's War?
100
The native peoples who taught the Virginia settlers survival skills and cultivation of tobacco.
What is the Powhatan?
100
The economic theory that supported the idea that colonies provided raw materials and markets for finished goods.
What is mercantilism?
200
They would only ratify the constitution with a promise of a Bill of Rights.
What are Anti-Federalists?
200
This treaty made way for the US to have the right of deposit or trade on the Mississippi River, a necessity for western farmers.
What is Pinckney's Treaty?
200
This war was caused due to impressment and War Hawk desire for quest of Canadian territory.
What is the War of 1812?
200
As example of social mobility and American ingenuity, his wit led to his ability to convince the French to give the US aid in the American Revolution.
Who is Ben Franklin?
200
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
300
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison teamed up to write these resolutions stating that states should be able to nullify a federal law.
What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
300
America acquired Spanish Florida in this treaty.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
300
This war was caused due to French and British conflict over the Ohio River Valley leading to the French loss of their American empire.
What is the French and Indian War?
300
Authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who is James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton?
300
This machine led to the growth of slavery and the textile industry not only in New England but Great Britain too.
What is the cotton gin?
400
Jefferson continued to oppose the policies of the Federalists and created this political party in response.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
400
Americans adopted this doctrine that stated that European nations should no longer view the western hemisphere or Americas as ripe for colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
After refusing to sell California, war erupted over the boundary of Texas and Mexico and whether the boundary was the Nueces or Rio Grande Rivers.
What is the Mexican American War?
400
Having had dreams to free his people, he led a slave rebellion in Virginia that led to the death of 42 white farmers in 1832.
Who is Nat Turner?
400
A plan in the early nation that assumed state debts from the Revolutionary War, created a bank, and placed an excise tax on whiskey.
What is Hamilton's Financial Plan?
500
In this action, Washington warned the US about entanglement with foreign powers and the influence of factions (political parties).
What is the Farewell Address?
500
The French refused to discuss issues in regard to firing on American ships at sea trading with Britain unless the French ministers were paid bribes.
What is the XYZ Affair?
500
Americans adopted this slogan in their dispute over Oregon with Great Britain. War was avoided by a treaty agreement.
What is "Fifty four forty or Fight"?
500
She led a movement for the mentally ill to be placed in asylums not prisons.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
500
Canals, steamboats, national roads, and the early railroad created better communication and movement of goods. The name for this group of innovations that the north was willing to pay for through tariffs but the south was not.
What are internal improvements?