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100
The European nations with claims in North America
What are Spain, England and France
100
British policy toward colonies that meant most taxes and duties were not enforced
What is salutary neglect?
100
The belief that women were responsible for rearing virtuous citizens and therefore need education.
What is Republican Motherhood?
100
Restored American honor by crushing the British forces in Battle of New Orleans
Who was Andrew Jackson?
100
Party founded on Nativist platform
What is the Know Nothing Party?
200
The founder of the colony in Roanoke in 1587, believed Native population might hold secrets to natural world
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
200
Group of colonists who actively opposed British policies like the Stamp Act
Who were the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty?
200
Invention responsible for the entrenchment of slavery in the deep south because it increased processing of an important crop
What was the cotton gin?
200
Most popular solution to slavery, ultimately failed due to high cost
What is colonization?
200
Best-selling fictional work that brought the horrors of slavery to a sympathetic northern audience
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
Group of investors granted land charter by the king, Jamestown was founded by one
What is a joint stock company?
300
An outcome of the Seven Years' War that was meant to restrict European settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?
300
Farmers who faced foreclosure closed the courts in MA and CT
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
Party that forms based on hatred of Jackson, composed of people with wildly varying views
What is the Whig Party?
300
Political maneuver that formalized the Fugitive Slave Act, made CA a free state, and abolished slave trade in Washington DC.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
This cousin of Virgina Governor Berkeley led a group of frontiersmen against western Indians and then on to Jamestown
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
400
Strain of thought that was anti-monarch and critical of government corruption
What is Republicanism?
400
A Constitutional clause that was the basis of the disagreement between Hamilton and Madison
What is "general welfare"?
400
Highly organized independent nation forced from their lands under Jackson's removal policy
Who were the Cherokee?
400
Legislation related to this state brought the slavery issue to the fore and made the sectional balance in Congress very obvious
What is Kansas?
500
The key to wealth in the colonies
What is labor
500
This Governor of Virginia allowed slaves of rebels to fight in exchange for their freedom
Who was Lord Dunmore?
500
Provided that the states could declare a federal law null and void
What were the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
500
Proposed policies of high tariffs and internal improvements to strengthen the nation
What is Henry Clay's American System?
500
Aided by improved means of transportation and communication, this movement upheld the idea that people had a role in their eternal salvation and that the millennium was at hand.
What is the Second Great Awakening (also accept Finneyite Movement or Revivalism)?