Colonial
British policy toward colonies that meant most taxes and duties were not enforced
What is salutary neglect?
The second person to hold office as the president, and the first to hold it as a member of a political party.
Who is John Adams?
Speech given by Abraham Lincoln to consecrate a battlefield cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The creator of the blend of tobacco that made the Virginia colony rich. (Also the husband of Matoaka)
Who was John Rolfe?
Group of colonists who actively opposed British policies like the Stamp Act
Who were the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty?
Abolitionist who was involved in both the Abolition and Women's Suffrage movement.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Best-selling fictional work that brought the horrors of slavery to a sympathetic northern audience
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Individuals who were given land in the colonies by the King of England mostly in the Southern Colonies.
Who are Cavaliers?
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?
Foreign Policy that threatened European nations should they continue to colonize the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Law passed that threatened the freedom of free blacks and fugitive slaves throughout the country.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The official beginning of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
The first form of direct democracy in the Colonies.
What is town meetings?
The primary motivation behind the War of 1812.
What is impressment?
Law authored by Stephen Douglas that introduced the concept of popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854?
Amendment that granted all people equal protection under the laws.
What is the fourteenth amendment?
This man created the colony of Rhode Island when he dissented against the Puritans in Massachusetts?
Who was Roger Williams?
Lockean philosophy that say that man holds original power.
What is Social Contract?
The treaty that facilitated the sale of Florida from Spain to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Highly organized independent nation forced from their lands under Jackson's removal policy
Who were the Cherokee?
What is sharecropping?