This famous inventor and former teacher invented the cotton gin allowing cotton production to soar.
Eli Whitney.
100
This document was the first attempt at writing a constitution?
Articles of Confederation
100
This War of 1812 battle happened two weeks after the war was over.
Battle of New Orleans
100
This theory of government assured that no branch of government had too much power?
Checks and Balances
100
What invention helped slavery stay alive in the south?
Cotton Gin
200
These two men were sent by Jefferson to learn about and survey the newly acquired Louisiana territory and also discover its plant and animal life.
Lewis and Clark.
200
The idea that states retained the individual sovereignty when they joined the United States of America and therefore could leave whenever they felt it served their best interest.
Secession
200
What was the naval and air battle fought in WWII in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean.
Battle of Midway
200
This political faction supported the idea of a strong central government in writing the Constitution?
Federalists
200
What law made Northerners mad because they now had to return slaves that escaped to the North?
Fugitive Slave Act
300
He was the life of the Civil Rights Movement, who espoused non-violent protest against segregation, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and was assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr.
300
The 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
300
A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier.
War of 1812
300
This series of 85 essays published in American newspapers by James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton argued the need for a strong central government?
The Federalist Papers
300
What action in 1820 by Congress added two new states and settled how future states in the west would handle slavery?
The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820
400
This Chief Justice of the Supreme Court firmly asserted the Court's power of "judicial review" which recognized that only the Supreme Court can decide the constitutionality of any law.
John Marshall.
400
Laws that governed trade between Britain and its colonies; Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. This angered the colonists
Navigation Acts
400
A battle during the Civil War that was the bloodiest single day in American history. It also gave President Lincoln the political cover he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
400
Americans whose lives were still confined primarily to the home.
Women
400
What set slaves free in rebelling states as 1863 began?
The Emancipation Proclamation
500
This diminutive Virginian is considered the " Father of the Constitution" and was elected as president in 1808.
James Madison
500
The long journey that slaves from Africa had to take to the Americas, when many of them were crammed together, and chained in the bowels of slave ships and supplied with little food and water
The "Middle Passage"
500
Washington and the French Navy blockaded British ships from entering harbor; the British surrendered when they realized they couldn't escape; final battle of the revolutionary war
Battle of Yorktown
500
These men were appointed by John Adams at the end of his presidency in order to infuriate the incoming Republican administration.
Midnight Judges
500
Laws passed by southern states in 1865 and 1866. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom.